Light Horse Swarm

expendablecinc · Post by **expendablecinc** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:02 pm

How are people finding the swarm of light horse approach faring?

Is 6 by 4 enough table space to push 40 odd bases of horse archers around and get a positive result?

I have a fair few catapracts frm my seleucid army and thinking of morphing it into Parthian.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:03 pm

Well I've won a 6 round and a 4 round competition with Seljuqs, so I'm happy enough

expendablecinc · Post by **expendablecinc** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:14 pm

I almost specifically excluded the LH combo armies and from memory there were quite a few armoured and protected cav to give it a bit of punch.

From memory you had 5 BGs of LH horse archers and about the same of shooty cav.

I am thinking of the lists that dont have the Cav/LH options like parthian (or perhaps skythian or palmyran - dont know these lists.)

I guess you really need to depend on the terrain and hence an IC is a goer.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:18 pm

My army at the club last night had 7 BGs of superior bow sword LH and 4 of cavalry although only two of those were armoured and only one was lancers. There was plenty of room to work with on a 6 by 4.

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:52 pm

6x4 seems big enough to me too.

daleivan · Post by **daleivan** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:08 pm

hammy wrote:My army at the club last night had 7 BGs of superior bow sword LH and 4 of cavalry although only two of those were armoured and only one was lancers. There was plenty of room to work with on a 6 by 4.

About how long did the game last? Did it play to a decisive conclusion?

Sounds like a great match up--Huns versus Kushans

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:16 pm

daleivan wrote:
hammy wrote:My army at the club last night had 7 BGs of superior bow sword LH and 4 of cavalry although only two of those were armoured and only one was lancers. There was plenty of room to work with on a 6 by 4.
About how long did the game last? Did it play to a decisive conclusion?

Sounds like a great match up--Huns versus Kushans

We didn't complete the game but were playing in a very laid back fashion with regular chats with other club members and such. We played for about 3 hours and at the end of that time the Huns were 6 AP to 3 up but there was a BG of disrupted elephants fighting a BG of nobles to the front and light horse to the rear, a BG of light foot were disrupted and pinned in a very nasty possition right infront of a BG of LH and the Kushan camp was 2 turns from falling.

I suspect that had I been playing at tournament speed that the game would have been over in 3 hours and the final result would have been a broken Kushan army and no more than 4 AP on the Huns.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:28 pm

expendablecinc wrote:I almost specifically excluded the LH combo armies and from memory there were quite a few armoured and protected cav to give it a bit of punch.

From memory you had 5 BGs of LH horse archers and about the same of shooty cav.

I am thinking of the lists that dont have the Cav/LH options like parthian (or perhaps skythian or palmyran - dont know these lists.)

I guess you really need to depend on the terrain and hence an IC is a goer.

I've tried Parthian outside of comp and it's perfect;y fine on a 6x4