Dailami in Ghaznavid army

tamerlan · Post by **tamerlan** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:25 pm

I am not sure how to use the army list, if I take all the dailami as medium foot, ¿may the battle group have 9 bases or in that case it can only have 6?

paulburton · Post by **paulburton** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:08 pm

No. Battle Groups have to have an even number of elements unless split 2/3 and 1/3 by type (page 22, last paragraph of column 2).

tamerlan · Post by **tamerlan** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:20 pm

Thanks Paul

peterrjohnston · Post by **peterrjohnston** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:24 pm

You can also take 8 MF.

Options are 4MF+2LF, 6MF, 8MF or 6MF+3LF.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:34 am

peterrjohnston wrote:You can also take 8 MF.

This is the correct option to take, the others are there to tempt you

peterrjohnston · Post by **peterrjohnston** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:27 am

nikgaukroger wrote: This is the correct option to take, the others are there to tempt you

Expensive if you take them as armoured, as you should. But Dailami do tend to own any terrain you go for, and they're good against most things in the open too.

In Dailami proper I use 4+2 armoured superior. Any bigger and the army is too small, with no real filler in the army. Must try average armoured one day though.

tamerlan · Post by **tamerlan** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:43 pm

I would love to take 8 bases of MF, but the list specifies "6-9" so I understood that I could only take units of 6 or of 9 bases. ¿is that the case?

Thanks again

ShrubMiK · Post by **ShrubMiK** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:47 pm

No, the hyphen in normal English usage implies "to", not "or"

Robert241167 · Post by **Robert241167** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:48 pm

6-9 means 6 to 9 bases not 6 or 9 bases.

Rob

tamerlan · Post by **tamerlan** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:55 pm

Fantastic, I am taking 8 bases

Thanks to you all

P.S. I am spanish, so my english needs some polishing

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:45 pm

tamerlan wrote:Fantastic, I am taking 8 bases

Thanks to you all

P.S. I am spanish, so my english needs some polishing

Yes lots of Polish have moved to England with the EU and all that

I personally would take the 4Armd +2LF for cost effectiveness in this army. And thats only if I had nowhere else to spend the points. You will normally find that if your enemy wants to contest terrain he will have more troops able to do it.

LambertSimnel · Post by **LambertSimnel** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:23 pm

philqw78 wrote:
tamerlan wrote:Fantastic, I am taking 8 bases

Thanks to you all

P.S. I am spanish, so my english needs some polishing
Yes lots of Polish have moved to England with the EU and all that

I personally would take the 4Armd +2LF for cost effectiveness in this army. And thats only if I had nowhere else to spend the points. You will normally find that if your enemy wants to contest terrain he will have more troops able to do it.

I take it you aren't a fan of dismounting some of the ghilmans to go play in the bushes with the dailami when the enemy also has good MF?

tamerlan · Post by **tamerlan** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:04 pm

Lambert, actually I am playing tomorrow my first game with this army, I am only taking 2 units of ghilman and it is not my first option to dismount them (although the terrain might change my mind); I am taking 8 bases of armoured dailami for the difficult terrain and all the elephants. We will see how it works.