MF shooters

[hammy]

Running 4 BG's of MF shooters last night against 3 on my opponents side they didn't feel too weak with 1.5 dice. There were however very few LF on the field. I still think that LF shooters are possibly too good compared to MF.

It still rankles slightly that a BG of 6 gets 3 dice at long range and only 4 at effective, it is hardly much of a jump is it.

The acheivement of the evening was a BG of longbow who stood in the open and beat off a BG of armoured knights. OK they were only ARMOURED which is a bid difference and I shot a base off and disrupted them on the way in and then I rolled a bit better than the knights in close combat. I could very easily have gone down in a heap and the longbow are about the best missile troops in the game.

Hammy

[rbodleyscott]

Running 4 BG's of MF shooters last night against 3 on my opponents side they didn't feel too weak with 1.5 dice. There were however very few LF on the field. I still think that LF shooters are possibly too good compared to MF.

It still rankles slightly that a BG of 6 gets 3 dice at long range and only 4 at effective, it is hardly much of a jump is it.

This presupposes that each BG shoots at one target and one target only. If you have 2 BGs of 6 side by side, you may be able to get 8 bases shooting at one target, and hence 6 dice.

Or you could choose to have 3 BGs of 8 instead of 4 of 6.

The acheivement of the evening was a BG of longbow who stood in the open and beat off a BG of armoured knights. OK they were only ARMOURED which is a bid difference and I shot a base off and disrupted them on the way in and then I rolled a bit better than the knights in close combat. I could very easily have gone down in a heap and the longbow are about the best missile troops in the game.

Sounds historical to me. As we know, longbowmen were usually deployed in terrain or behind stakes.

[hammy]

Running 4 BG's of MF shooters last night against 3 on my opponents side they didn't feel too weak with 1.5 dice. There were however very few LF on the field. I still think that LF shooters are possibly too good compared to MF.

It still rankles slightly that a BG of 6 gets 3 dice at long range and only 4 at effective, it is hardly much of a jump is it.

This presupposes that each BG shoots at one target and one target only. If you have 2 BGs of 6 side by side, you may be able to get 8 bases shooting at one target, and hence 6 dice.

Or you could choose to have 3 BGs of 8 instead of 4 of 6.

true but at present I only have 12 bases of longbowmen and while 16 or 24 would be nice I would have to find 36 points or more from somewhere...

The acheivement of the evening was a BG of longbow who stood in the open and beat off a BG of armoured knights. OK they were only ARMOURED which is a bid difference and I shot a base off and disrupted them on the way in and then I rolled a bit better than the knights in close combat. I could very easily have gone down in a heap and the longbow are about the best missile troops in the game.

Sounds historical to me. As we know, longbowmen were usually deployed in terrain or behind stakes.

Exactly, I only realised after I deployed my army that I hadn't remembered to pay for the stakes I put some stakes in the box but was short of the 18 AP to stake up my 12 longbow.

I wasn't complaining, but felt that it was worth reproting that it didn't take too much for longbow to beat off armoured knights. Heavily armoured knights would definitely have me scrabling for stakes.

Hammy