petedalby wrote:Love the reports Tim - thanks for the extensive plugs!

For a minute then, I thought that 'plugs' was a euphemism for Swedish boobies.

Moro wrote:The army has the same number of BG (4).
The question is if they can have a odd number of bases...

It has 1 Grand Battle group and 3 normal Battle Groups, so for this purpose counts as five (I think)

For Early Achaemenid Persian I have been carrying out research on the army composition (watching 300) and noticed that the list is missing a number of troop types. Rhinos probably best treated as scythed chariots. elephants naptha throwers Also the immortals (ninjas) are probably best classified as...

Yes, poor Kns are bad (but maybe a cheap unit of poor KNs is better than a costly unit of average KN, who knows?), but historically speaking not all knights were famous for their courage and cunning! So, why don'y thinking about consider them in the game? What you are missing is that troop quality ...

My romantic side is telling me that I need to have an Early 17th Century French army with Musketeer led Enfants Perdu, but my practical side says that 40 points is a heckuva lot to spend to get 2 shooting dice.

Has anyone given Superior LF Musket a run out? and are they as overpriced as I fear?

An 8 base pike/shot BG behind 2 bases of arty: 8 Bases ?? Which army please. Thanks You can, IIRC, create such by the process of detaching shot and they are available to the late end of the Huguenot list. Also, French infantry in the French Wars of Religion - Huguenot, French Wars of Religion - Cat...

As the late German Feudal and Civic armies have been split off into there own lists in Lost Scrolls, I suspect that the original Later Medieval German list in Storm of Arrows could benefit from being rejigged to better fit the Imperial armies that are now the only ones it represents.

Is it legal for a Huguenot Lansquenet BG to have 9 pike and 5 shot? It looks wrong, but while a BG can't be an odd size unless specifically allowed by the army list,I can't see any restriction stopping the component types of a BG from being odd. On a similar front, the Danish and Swedish versions of...

T&T arrived yesterday from Caliver. It looks like the 16th century was a Cambrian Explosion of infantry doctrines. Pike Kiels; Pike and Halberd Kiels; Pike and Sword Kiels; Pike and Shot Kiels; Pike, Halbard and Shot Kiels; Colunela; Early Tercios; Late Tercios; Late Tercios with bows; Pike, Bil...

Carolingian yes. I can just see myself as Charlamagne. :wink: What proportion of cavalry to light cavlary do you think gives the best balance? Actually he has next to none. I think like 1 BG of LH jav. Bretons I think. There's only 1 BG of Basques/Gascons/Andalucians in the list itself, but if you ...

Well, iodine is important for growth and the majority of that in diet comes from seafood. China being large, some people will live far from the sea, so it is possible that they did not get enough to grow much over 2' tall. It would also explain why some of the Terracotta Warriors are smaller than y...

On p11 of Empires of the Dragon the Erlitou Shang troop notes read "The Shang dagger axe (ge) had a dagger axe blade on a metre-long shaft." Just below the troop notes is a photo of Shang Dagger-axe Men with dagger axes that are nearly twice their height. This leads to the inescapable conc...

I do agree that it is curious that there seems to be a blanket rule that anything non-Roman automatically gets to be Superior if you shove a horse under ity, whereas anything Roman (and of course I include "Byzantine" in tat category) might be allowed to be Superior if it is really lucky,...

philqw78 wrote:

RichardThompson wrote:From the Spearmen's point of view, getting the skirmishers to b****r off is the whole point of having the LF.

No, the point of the LF was to counter mounted charges.

If they needed help to hold off mounted charges then Defensive Spear, as it currently exists, doesn't feel like the correct grading.

Post Latin Conquest is by far the best competition Byzantine army list. Pre 1150 Komnenan Byzantine is outstanding due to the drilled knights and heavily armoured infantry. Agree on the Post Latin Conquest Byzantines being the best competion list. As it should be, since this was the period of the B...

deadtorius wrote:First poodles now elephants... is there no end to your animal hatred???

If they behave like animals they have to expect to be treated like animals.

rbodleyscott wrote:

4. Is it ever possible to get ++POA when shooting?

Probably not. If not we could have simplified the To Hit chart. (Which was, of course, carried forward from FOGAM).

It looks to me like artillery enfilading elephants would get ++ unless I'm misreading the chart

I am rescuing this topic because I have a question about Romans. As far as I know, hastati and principes can't interpenetrate when fleeing through triarii without making them drop a level. Shouldn't that be allowed in a historical basis? Wouldn't it be the same at least for Marian and Imperial legi...

It's curious that we have two different ways of representing the same troops. And only for horse archers - e.g. Numidians don't get the option to be cavalry. I wonder if a better approach would be "can deploy as either" in the way that Hypastpists can deploy as HF or MF? Of course that gi...

I think what is meant is "If any regimental guns are used then at least as many of any Superior battle groups fielded must have them as Average battle groups." This avoids any confusion about having to take multiple Superior BGs. I know your intent, but I don't think the suggested wording...