The problem is how will the point system solve this advantage of having an elite army.

Spartacus slaves should always have a balanced chance of winning.
How much will be a inca warrior compared with a spanish conquistador.
What will be the cost of a recently recruited roman soldier at Cannae.

30+ years of Wargames Research Group romantic over-estimation of mounted troops over infantry has made most people in our community believe that this is realistic. I wonder how all these mounted armies will do against hussites. If infantry armies always have to loose against mounted, they themselve...

Today I got the new rules Warlord by Trevor Halsall Just came out and at first look looks somehow similar to warhammer or the WRG 6th edition. I will read them in the next days, but it seem that its again a complex rules set with many pages so maybe AoW should be easy to play in a short time. New ru...

today I got a new rule system

WARLORD
by Trevor Halsall & Richard Harper
so one good title less


I remember that I once heard of the word OORLOG.
I guess it is of dutch or ancient anglo-germanic origin.

Unfortunately, that "brand" name is already being used by several other products, including an established set of ancient/medieval miniatures rules, as well as a supplement for a much better-known miniatures system. I still maintain that it would be preferable to establish a unique "...

I have managed to keep a BG of enemy knights out of play for half a game with some skirmishers simply because the knights kept on failing the maneuver test they needed to turn and move away. Obviously in that case my skirmishers were doing a good job :) Hammy good to hear. I think new orders for su...

I agree that most ancients rules--indeed, most wargaming rules in any period--give commanders far too much control over what their troops are doing on the table top for strict historical accuracy. But . . . that extra control makes for a far better game. Being able to redeploy one's troops after th...

I am wondering wether there will be a "Kriegsspiel" Computer game once. I guess most of you do not know what I mean by this. You have to play the original Kriegspiel (v. Reisswitz) to understand the difference between a Kriegsspiel and a wargame. Kriegsspiel is a kind of tabletop wargame w...

I do not have the beta rules and battle reports are quite short, so my question is: Is there any kind of friction of war in the command system? I do not think of troops just getting impetus or flee. My experience is that most of the rules give the C-C the universal command abilities. They are able t...

Stay with Art of Wars

It is easy to remember and the name is already known to many wargamers.

If you ??ll come up with a new name you give up the exsisting advantage of a brand.

Does it mean more pike than anything else (for instance: 5 Pk, 3 Ax, and 3 Bd) Well, what else could "mostly" mean? (English is not my first language) You are wright. 51 % would be "column with majority of pikes" But it is not 100 % precise. A translation into another languages ...

you did not remove figures in 7th. You took fatigue points. Yeah I remember. My Samurai charged evading enemies until they died of fatigue horrible rules set I played many rules and each had some good elements and some bad. WRG 6th edition was a heroic system. I loved that feeling of having a good ...

you could also count skirmisher as sub unit.

they are either within their main unit, so bases are removed from the table or they separate from it.

This is very useful when the main unit is a square. Otherwise skirmish bases would never fit into a square.

How versatile & flexible is a Mongol/Golden Horde Army? On paper, it looks dead good with bow-armed Light Cavalry & Lance-armed Heavy Cavalry - but how good is it in practice? It is always strange when infantry armies fight against a mobile mounted army. Either the table is to small for the...

I can safely say that Art of War is NOT written in Barkereese, it is written in normal understandable english. It will also have a lot of handy diagrams. The downside of this is it will have more pages than DBM. I also believe that the rules will be translated into many of the major european langua...

I would prefer a smaler scale in addition too.

I recently tried out Basic Impetuus

It is played on a table double size than DBA. (120 cm X 60 cm)

My favorite armies are: Later Swiss Alexandrian Macedons Later Mongols Carthagians Republican Romans Chin Chinese (I must confess I already sold them) I hope with AoW it will be able to have exciting unhistorical battles as well as to simulate realistic historical battles. When using WRG 6th edition...

I used BG's of 8 pike which had an interesting and unxepected bonus (I had not used Swiss in AoW prior to the comp) that when a 2 wide 4 deep block of pike turns 90 degrees it is still a 2 wide 4 deep block. This had the effect of making isolated blocks of pike feel like squares that with a good ma...

I doubt any wargame will ever adequately represent the Swiss at war -- they make unit movement far too responsive to the wishes of the player. By the way, the Swiss halberdiers in the later (pike-predominant) period would either be the entire block of close fighters in the command, or, far more lik...