christian nubian

marco · Post by **marco** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:59 am

i have to change my army choice for my nubian bowmen, already painted (sa they are all average)
http://www.artdelaguerre.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=677

i saw that somebody manage to get a good result in tournament with them

is it possible to have advice about a list ?

and maybe an idea of the list ?

thanks for your contributions to save the nubians....
marco

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Tue May 19, 2009 10:04 am

Looks like an interesting army. I hope to hear and see more about them!

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue May 19, 2009 10:55 am

Simon's Christian Nubians were roughly:

3 or 4 commanders (including IC)
1 BG armoured lancers
1 BG protected lancers
4 BG light spear cavalry
2 BG light horse
2 BG spear
6 BG of 8 bow
1 BG of light foot

The key seems to be the mix of cavalry and bow.

whitehorses · Post by **whitehorses** » Tue May 19, 2009 12:06 pm

Wot no Camel(S)?

(hat tip to Chad

)

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue May 19, 2009 12:09 pm

whitehorses wrote:Wot no Camel(S)?
(hat tip to Chad )

Why would you want camels??

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Tue May 19, 2009 12:25 pm

hammy wrote:Simon's Christian Nubians were roughly:

3 or 4 commanders (including IC)
1 BG armoured lancers
1 BG protected lancers
4 BG light spear cavalry
2 BG light horse
2 BG spear
6 BG of 8 bow
1 BG of light foot

The key seems to be the mix of cavalry and bow.

I dont have this companion book yet. What period does this army cover?

whitehorses · Post by **whitehorses** » Tue May 19, 2009 12:51 pm

Camels are bad news for enemy Mtd. if memory serves, causes them to be disordered I think?
even better if there are any cataphract camels - though that may be restricted just to the ancients....

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:57 pm

Huaxtec15mm wrote:I dont have this companion book yet. What period does this army cover?

550AD to 1500AD

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue May 19, 2009 2:00 pm

whitehorses wrote:Camels are bad news for enemy Mtd. if memory serves, causes them to be disordered I think?
even better if there are any cataphract camels - though that may be restricted just to the ancients....

You could have protected camel riders with light spear but with a mass of superior medium foot bow mounted are the least of your worries so the cavalry version who are light spear swordsmen are more useful

Huaxtec15mm · Post by **Huaxtec15mm** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:06 pm

hammy wrote:
Huaxtec15mm wrote:I dont have this companion book yet. What period does this army cover?
550AD to 1500AD

Thank you!

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:44 pm

hammy wrote:
whitehorses wrote:Wot no Camel(S)?
(hat tip to Chad )
Why would you want camels??

To irritate Nik, the well known camel-phobe.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue May 19, 2009 4:05 pm

Scrumpy wrote:
hammy wrote:
whitehorses wrote:Wot no Camel(S)?
(hat tip to Chad )
Why would you want camels??
To irritate Nik, the well known camel-phobe.

It is indeed true that Nik doesn't like camels. So much so that I hear a rumour that he walked out with a bit of a hissy fit when the number of camels allowed to some of the lists in Lost Scrolls became fully apparent

grahambriggs · Post by **grahambriggs** » Tue May 19, 2009 5:27 pm

He's never really recovered from my DBM Christian Nubian pathfinder command

ethan · Post by **ethan** » Tue May 19, 2009 5:59 pm

whitehorses wrote:Camels are bad news for enemy Mtd. if memory serves, causes them to be disordered I think?
even better if there are any cataphract camels - though that may be restricted just to the ancients....

The camel effect is worth about the same as a PoA. The problem is that the Nubian camels aren't otherwise very well equipped, so it mostly makes up for their not having swords when fighting other mounted.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:01 pm

grahambriggs wrote:He's never really recovered from my DBM Christian Nubian pathfinder command

I adopted it instead

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Wed May 20, 2009 3:42 pm

I recently played Si's Nubians

1 x IC
2 x TC
4 x 4BG Cav Avg Prot Lt Sp
1 x 4 BG Cav Avg Prot lancers
1x 4 BG Cav Sup Arm lancers
2 x 6BG MF Poor Prot DS
1 x 8BG LF Poor UnPr Jav
5 x 8BG MF Sup Unpr Bow
1 x 6BG MF Sup Unpr Bow
2 x 4 BG LH Avg Unpr Lance

And if Paul Brandon reads this - I lost.

It's a horrible army to face - unless I guess you have loads of armoured MF / HF?

Pete

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Wed May 20, 2009 8:57 pm

Damn, that is the exact list I was using for our friendly over here tomorrow !