Slitherine

Caledonian wrote:I can confirm for what it's worth , however, that my son used a Gallic army at Britcon with two Gallic allied contingents. I discussed this with the list checker for that competition and he agreed that this was ok

John

Thats because there is more than 1 allied general allowed in the main list

Having co-authored the Blood and Gold lists I can confirm the approach we took for that book (I suspect others were similar but Richard would know).

There are effectively three levels of allies. The smallest contingents aren't big enough to have their own general, or are sufficiently under the thumb that they served in the main army so appear as a line in the main list.

Up from that is a contingent that gets its own general by specific reference to an ally list. And, to confirm, that means a single ally.

The third situation is where there is strong evidence that more than one allied contingent. And in that case we have explicitly said, for example, 'up to 2 contingents'.

So, for example, a Hatun-Colla army is allowed La Paz auxiliaries, who were under the thumb so appear in the main Hatun-Colla list. They also are allowed Canas allies, so with nothing else specified that means only one Canas ally.

The Aztecs* on the other hand can get Triple Alliance allies (up to 2 contingents) representing the close alliance they had with Tlacopan and Tetzcoco. But they also get Central American allies (up to 2 contingents) to represent the city states also under Aztec hegemony. Of course the "CiC plus 1 to 3 other generals" rule means that not all four allied contingents could be used at once.

Regards

Graham

* I know "Aztec" isn't proper but my partners in crime didn't want me to call them Mexica. The big boy made me do it Miss.

grahambriggs wrote:Having co-authored the Blood and Gold lists I can confirm the approach we took for that book (I suspect others were similar but Richard would know).

So we can blame you for the super armies that will be unleashed. What is the most interesting troop type you got the authors to approve?

I asked this question a while back and did not get a clear answer.

Can a Spartan army take say 2 Spartan allies?

Cam

Cam_Millar wrote:I asked this question a while back and did not get a clear answer.

Can a Spartan army take say 2 Spartan allies?

Cam

........ Why would you want to?

Mike B

I would say no to the 2 Spartan allies, trying to upgun the number of superior troops you can have are you?

Looking at the classical Greek list you can't take any allies from the Calassical Greek allies list in the first place. You can only get troops from the main list.