Bow BG size

[paulcummins]

From reading this forum it seems to be an aim to avoid undue benefits being thrown up by BG size - eg the only even nos of elements.

Bow BGs of 6 seem to be a bit disadvantaged - 3 shots from the first rank and 1 from the second - so 4 dice. a group of 4 gives you 3 dice and 8 gives you 6, so you pay for 2 extra bases to get 1 extra dice. 6-8 you pay for 2 extra and get 2 extra dice.

not sure you can do much about it - but it does make organising a bow army difficult.

[shall]

From reading this forum it seems to be an aim to avoid undue benefits being thrown up by BG size - eg the only even nos of elements.

Bow BGs of 6 seem to be a bit disadvantaged - 3 shots from the first rank and 1 from the second - so 4 dice. a group of 4 gives you 3 dice and 8 gives you 6, so you pay for 2 extra bases to get 1 extra dice. 6-8 you pay for 2 extra and get 2 extra dice.

not sure you can do much about it - but it does make organising a bow army difficult.

Its not such a problem in practice. You tend to get a trade-off of going in:

4s = maximum initial firepower but low resilience (and lose the firepower if you lose 1 base)
6s = much more resilient but lower initial firepower (but same after you lose a base note, and 4s are down if they lose base)
8s = maximum firepower and resilient but less manouverability

Even having played 40+ games now I can't honestly say I have a favourite. So it doesn't really make it difficult - just a matter of choice.

Si

[paulcummins]

Ill rephrase that as 'its making it difficult for me to decide how to use it'

Ill try some of each and see how they go - not that im likely to get a chance of a game before the Leeds lists need to be in on Friday (unless someother Beta person is likely to be in MK on Thursday)

[shall]

Hey if everyone had figured out how to use the armies in AOW already we wouldn't be having half the fun

Looking forward to Leeds

Si