Having read a number of posts to do with luck, I'm coming to the conclusion that players go through three stages:

1. Beginner

You have no skill and don't know what to expect. Your strategies are largely random and game results are completely luck driven.

2. Inexperienced

You have now worked out ...

I'm not a long term Beta tester, only began at Leeds, so to date have 10 games under my belt.

I am finding the game intriguing very well thought out and very cleverley fine tuned. However like some other postings have indicated i am beginning to feel that luck seems to play too big a part in the ...

Please can i have the terrain types for the Bedouin Dynasties, which i will be using in my next practice game on Tuesday. We are going to have a go at massed Bow mounted (Huns) against massed impact mounted (Bedouin which are of the non Hamdanid or Uqaylid variety).

cheers

Andy Robinson

shall wrote:
But the problem is that the overlaps get you later. You are commiting yourself to a 2 dice disadvantage in melee even if you win the impact phase.

No, you can expand in the movement phase and thus avoid the 2 dice disadvantage. If I interpret the Ascii art correctly the columns of ...

A better bet for holding the romans up is to stack rear support behind your offensive spearmen and make sure the generals are nearby. If you make the units 8 bases and keep them 3 wide this gives better chance of avoiding a -2. 1 small supporting BG can support 2 8s if positioned correctly behind ...

Of course there is also the problem about what the Romans do about this column - they could simply march past it and then hit the Carthaginians in the flank? Or ignore the deep columns to help the flanks out first. One thing is for certain, the spearmen are very much more disadvantaged to shooting ...

Of course there is also the problem about what the Romans do about this column - they could simply march past it and then hit the Carthaginians in the flank? Or ignore the deep columns to help the flanks out first. One thing is for certain, the spearmen are very much more disadvantaged to shooting ...

So after all this script i have 2 questions to ask.

1/ I can't see anything in the rules to stop the spear using this formation, but i could be missing something.

2/ On paper and on the wargames table it looks as though an un-histirical use of a spear phalanx is the best way forwards against ...

A long posting so please be patient.

Background.

The assumption is that the game is played between two reasonably competent players (although some may disagree :) )

I have so far played all my test games using !st punic war Carthaginians to try out Offensive spearmen. I have played two ...

My two penneth FWIW would be to prefer that shifting is only allowed at the end of the full move forward. Stops micro measurement and maintains simplicity.


But renders the half shift to avoid obstacles useless. So, if we want consistency (which corresponds to simplicity) it should be the same ...

When I was talking about when to shift the following is an example of a move i made.

A BG of 2 elephants were on an extreme flank advancing forward. If they moved 4MU straight forward they would come within 6MU of enemy so could not shift at the end of the move. If the moved 2 MU straight forward ...

[The shifting rules say there must be "no enemy within 6 MUs at any point in the move."

So you are not allowed to shift early in the move if later on in the same move you go within 6 MUs of the enemy. Not sure if this is what your opponent did, or if you are describing some kind of "slalem" to ...

Out of interest what was in the Carth army?

More spearmen than you could shake several sticks at IIRC.

The Carthaginian army was 275-235BC with a Siciliot Greek ally. It actually scored more than 12 points, i think it finished with 40. The composition was:

3 x Carthaginian Troop commanders
1 x ...

When does a battle group perform a shift in the movement phase? I only ask because a BG of 2 elephants (in a recent practice game) on two occasions were able to avoid the within 6MU rule by shifting before the end of their full movement forward.

We could not find anything clear within the rules ...

Alan, it isn't going to happen - I've had this discussion with Richard already.

Now what about some numbers on the minima?

I would like to see minima used but in terms of number of battle groups not elements. Minimum and maximum number of elements to chose from within a list is fine but ...

Steep hills and villages are classified as difficult going in the rules but on the quick reference sheet they both are above the footing impassable terrain. Is this change only meant to apply for the +1 to adjustment dice roles?

Cheers

Andy Robinson

The Footing is meant to be a colour key ...

Steep hills and villages are classified as difficult going in the rules but on the quick reference sheet they both are above the footing impassable terrain. Is this change only meant to apply for the +1 to adjustment dice roles?

Cheers

Andy Robinson

lawrenceg wrote:

My opponent took off a dead element in such a way that a friendly unit was now over 3 mu away from a breaking unit, thus avoiding the CT.
LAwrence Greaves



This was a move i made and i have a great deal of sympathy with Lawrences' dislike of the situation.

It arose because ...

I think that the text in the glossary is reasonably clear but it may be that because it is in the glossary people don't look there unless they are trying to clear something up.

Indeed, but it is a good place to look when trying to clear something up.

yeah yeah :D some of us are still getting ...

In this case aren't more than two bases of knights dissordered?

No, this has been raised a couple of times, because it's now the only place in the rules that refers to a base width (other than tyrning 90 degrees). A few people have asked if it could be changed to 2MU, and it's been argued that ...