Hi Richard and thanks for your thoughts. Will obviously have to reread my Strategicon - slightly outside my period of interest/knowledge really. Nevertheless, it seems to me that the Byzantines were clever enough to recognize a tactical advantage when they had one and if facing an opponent who lacke...

Just finished my first play test of the rules and subject to the following comments, was very pleased. After so badly misunderstanding the shooting rules on first read through, I decided to conscript my Belisarians into the role of Thematic Byzantines and take on an Abbasid army. Both armies were 60...

On a further rereading of the shooting section, I see that I was totally incorrect about the usefulness of mixed lance/bow armed cavalry. I completely missed the distinction between being the first rank of shooters and being the second rank in a BG. The example now makes sense. That will teach me to...

Hi all. Just joined as a tester with v. 5.04 and am very pleased and proud to participate in a project which will hopefully put the fun, and historical accuracy back into ancients wargaming. I had just completed reading 5.04 and making copious notes of ambiguities, grammatical errors, non sequiturs ...