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Designer's note:
One of the persistent irritations is the inability to set army routing thresholds (or unit auto-rout for that matter, which would be useful to model fatigued or morally fragile troops and such). One answer has been to use baggage units (as done on a massive scale for the Ascalon scenario) to augment the break points. But their fragility is a drawback. At Adrianople there just aren't enough roman units for the scenario to last until the final phase of the battle (the last stand of the elite lanciarii and mattiari legions) and no safe place or historical justification for the baggage units. This led me to the concept of 'points' to add to the roman break points. It's basically baggage units protected by impassible terrain. should have thought of that earlier.
The Gothic player will need to destroy the Roman cavalry quickly and fall on the Roman infantry's flank. Failing that, he will fall out of the historical pattern and will not win. The Roman infantry is tough and it takes some skills to overcome them (the Roman player also has a 20 pts bp lead) even with a successful initial cavalry action.
that's it for now boys and girls. happy playing.
