malekithau wrote:1. Scythed chariots - seem to be a little too good. Consensus amongst the players is that they shouldn't have a +POA in the melee phase. So far whenever they ahve gotten into combat they have smashed their opponents on the charge and had no disadvantage in the following melee phase.
Interesting, I thought they might prove useless.
If they don't rout their oppoenents in 1 turn (1 impact + 1 melee) they are destroyed. How often are they likely to drop the enemy 3 cohesion levels in 2 rounds of combat, bearing in mind that this means that the enemy must score 2 or less on a cohesion test in one of the rounds and also fail cohesion in the other? It is hard to follow up the chariot closely enough to finish enemy off without risking being routed through by the chariots, so any BG that isn't actually broken by the chariots is likely to have time to recover before it has to fight again. (Although I suppose that LF archers/slingers following up behind might be able to shoot off another cohesion level before the enemy can be bolstered).
Of course the historical counter is to rout them with LF shooting before they get to you.
2. I mentioned this 2 weeks ago - a issue which was mentioned afterwards and prompted some discussion was the lack of elephant rampage. I'm not in favour of random stampedes personally but I wouldn't mind an additional modifier be built into the CT when testing for routing/destroyed Ellies. Perhaps an additional -1 if to the rear and within one base width of the routing destroyed unit to simulate the rampage?
We are really not in the market for adding extra CT modifiers. In earlier stages of development we had several (perfectly justifiable) additional modifiers but we ruthlessly excised all but the essential ones to keep the game at the desired level of simplicity.
So you are right, your suggestion would be a nice piece of flavour, but it doesn't quite make the grade as essential. Another idea that got dropped as inessential was to make troops drop 2 cohesion levels if burst through by their own elephants or scythed chariots.
