At 5s to hit they still do decent damage - just not as much as a bow or longbow or xbow vs such targets.

Slings are incredibly cheap to produce - if they were as good why did everyone equip their troops with bows instead? They must be less good. Being hit by a rennaissance bullet in full plate isn ...

Hi,

Just wondering what the rationale is for slingers being at - against heavily armoured types? Most of the evidence I have seen would indicate they were quite effective against armoured troops, more so then some other types.

John O

Also wondered this myself, didnt the Romans use slingers ...

I reallty like the idea that the only way units actually run away is for them to be reduced to 50% (ish) casualties - or be threatened with being tonked in combat by someone much much better than them because thir morale is already wavering (reader says "so, you have to actually beat units in ...

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 ...

like to add my 'confused of Southampton' to this.

Regards
Matt

For no reason other than to speed up resolution of the game. As deterioration of armies is cohesion driven rather than casualty driven in the rules, making it too easy to rise up levels would slow the game down.

surely the reverse is true, a too rapid decline makes the game less about skill and ...

One thing that occurred to me during the games is that Cohesion tests are totally negative. Nothing earth shattering I know but bear with me :D

A BG can go from fighting fit to broken in a Bound. It can never bolster/rally if it dropped a cohesion level in the previous bound and never without a ...

Army Disaster - MF Superior, Drilled, Armoured, Impact Foot, Swordsmen charging severley disorded Mesh Wesh in the flank in the soft sand and being routed two turns later by some fantastic dice from Matt!


Really :shock:

You automatically disrupt him at impact, fight the impact at ++ to his ...

Valid tactic?

that my LF who can't charge anything but LF, will if their opposing numbers evade charge straight into the enemy Heavies? Almost certainly rout and hand me some attrition points.

As it stands I must withdraw my LF behind my Heavies, get shot at by enemy skirmishers for 2 turns (the ...

Whilst i am on the soap box it would be good if the designers could explain how they wanted shock MF to work. In knowing this then their best roll on the battlefield might be clearer to dimwits like myself who haven't worked it out yet. (Thinking in terms of Thorakitai, Thureophoroi, Spaniards) who ...

The Charge section appears to imply that a charging BG does not have to move its entire distance 'charge directly ahead, up to the full extent of the charge move' if that is the case then ignore the following.

-is it reasonable for non-missile terrain troops (say Dailami impact foot or Thracian ...

I did note that Si's bowmen appeared to be beaten reasonably handily by Hoplites which looked fine to me.

How are archers standing up to mounted?

Having all but the best (say Janisseries and English) flattened by knights in the open seems OK to me but what about against cavalry types?

BTW as ...

Caveat to my post on this is I might try them if I could take them in 12's so I could field them three deep and use two BG together. This might improve their survivability. As it stands the Kushites can only take them in 8s and that just is not enough.

Regards
Matt

I've noted a few commenst about possible issues with MF on this forum before Leeds and so was wondering what people's conclusions were after Leeds,

I know Matt and Kevin both had MF archers (including Janisseries in Kevin's case) so how did they fare?

Could possibly impact on some list ...

Thanks for this useful feedback.

I wonder if the answer might be to adjust the shooting POAs:

"-1 If shooting at a BG that is charging or in close combat". (Or words to that effect).

That would certainly make the situation less attractive for me to try and engineer. I'd be more likely to send ...

Slight Cheese alert as I spend my last couple of games looking to engineer certain geometric/contact events.

Shooting at BG in Melee.

By carefully aligning my BG so they are only initially contacting on end files of 6 element BG I can shoot at them after impact and before melee. The end result ...

I will be bringing a few cloths but alas I doubt I will be stealing Simon's quinquereme :(

One of the things on my shopping list for the Tripples is some nice terrain. After all as the exact milimetric location of bases is less important in AoW we might as well make things look good.

Hammy

I ...

bddbrown wrote:Afraid not. As we are not charging for this event and the BHGS is not funding it then we cannot fund any subsidy for the car park. Sorry.

No worries, just making sure :O)

Cheers
Matt

Bruce,
were any special arrangements made about car parking fees?

Cheers
Matt

Later Hungarians can have a 50/50 split in their clipeati between spear and supporting light foot. say a BG of 6 spear and 6 LF

If I deploy them 2 deep, front rank spear, rear rank Light foot. When I contract can I displace the LF backwards into a third partial rank allowing the spear to Double ...