Decline and Fall--armies of interest

daleivan · Post by **daleivan** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:33 pm

In the vein of a previous thread on the upcoming Eternal Empire book, I was wondering which armies in "Decline and Fall" folks were most interested in.

FWIW Early Byzantine, Arab Conquest, African Vandal, and Ghaznavid look very interesting to me.

Dale

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:52 pm

Ghaznavid is one of the armies that was present in the playtest set of army lists and it is really rather fun. Fortunatley I can field almost everything in the Ghaznavid list with what I already own.

The rest of the Arab armies are also pretty interesting too. Dailami anyone

The Byzantine lists combined with the potential of some nice new ranges of miniatures might get me looking at the Eastern Roman empire as well and that would be my first new ancients army for a while.

expendablecinc · Post by **expendablecinc** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:27 am

Definitely Nikephorian and Thematic Byzantine for me. I am interested to see what the Russ ally looks like (if available) and the way the various incarnations of varangians and mixed arms cavalry are represented.

Anthony

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:51 am

Pretty much all the Moslem armies interest me - BTW check out Khurasanian as well.

shall · Post by **shall** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:32 am

I played Nikephorian, Pecheneg and Ghaznavid a lot in development and all three were rather good armies to use. Ghaznavid won the first beta comp IIRC.

Si

neilhammond · Post by **neilhammond** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:09 am

shall wrote: Ghaznavid won the first beta comp IIRC.

Si

Yes, I think it did. It was using a panzer-force of 4 elephants on one BG! That was when you decided that elephants should be in BGs of 2.

Quintus · Post by **Quintus** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:09 pm

Not my favourite period: I thoroughly dislike horse archers and they were becoming much too prevalent around this time. That said, I am interested in the African Vandals if only for the challenge - at least the games would be over quickly.

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:35 pm

Christian Nubians FTW!!!

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:19 pm

The Arab armies, Later Moors & the Bulgars catch my interest. OK most things anti-Byzantine catch the eye for some reason

thefrenchjester · Post by **thefrenchjester** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:36 pm

Hi ,

the Belisarian army of course !

thefrenchjester

daleivan · Post by **daleivan** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:29 am

Khurasanian and Dailami definitely intrigue me

Cheers,

Dale

daleivan · Post by **daleivan** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:59 pm

Now that I have a copy of D&F in hand, I can say that I'm very pleased with the book and with the choices here. (I focus on in period and in theme matches, so how an army does in the open format doesn't factor into this for me)

Early Byzantines are my favorites of the Byzantine lists in this book, though they all have interest. Having just fought a game against the Nikephorian list I can add that the HF DSp and MF bw combination is tough.

I like the Muslim armies a lot. Arab Conquest is intriguing, undrilled, with lots of HF offensive spear and some decent lancer cav especially post 638. An entire army graded superior could be quite nasty in period. Umayyad is a drilled average version with better armored cavalry. Abbasid has plenty of variety. Khurasanian looks very good. I'm less interested in Ghaznavid after seeing them but that's just me.

I'd say that the Early South Slavs are the surprise of the book for me--very interesting mix for a barbarian army.

And you gotta love the African Vandals for simply being what they are--a ton of armored lance cavalry graded superior. Win or lose it's likely to be over quick

Cheers,

Dale

Decline and Fall--armies of interest

Decline and Fall--armies of interest

Thematic/Nikephorian