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I'll take the Saka from whats left.

w_michael wrote:Ian is free to choose another available empire if he doesn't like his chances with the current army list.

No, I expect he is absolutely delighted with the prospect of being the Parthians. It is just a question of how many times he can get his horse archers to go round the battlefield in the inevitable encirclements that are to come.

w_michael wrote:Ian is free to choose another available empire if he doesn't like his chances with the current army list.

Don't worry. I could chew up and spit out this motley opposition if my Parthians were armed with just dessert spoons. Bring it on.

ianiow wrote:

w_michael wrote:Ian is free to choose another available empire if he doesn't like his chances with the current army list.

Don't worry. I could chew up and spit out this motley opposition if my Parthians were armed with just dessert spoons.

The terrifying thing is that this is probably true.

The Parthians may be competitive against the Saka or Hsiung-nu.

any room left in this campaign ?

iandavidsmith wrote:any room left in this campaign ?

Yes. You have a choice of Nabataea or Arab Tribes. See the map at the top of this topic.

Hi there I'm a sucker for punishment whatever Ian doesn't want I will take the other of the two that are left thank you.

And thanks I thought I was going to miss out out this should be fun and if all goes well who knows I might even end up facing the parthians.....

Is Ian the resident Hannibal of FoG? Going to double check the player list and make sure I don't accidentally invade the wrong opponent

w_michael wrote:The Parthians may be competitive against the Saka or Hsiung-nu.

Sounds hopeful for my Saka until I reflected that this is like describing Hannibal as competitive against the Romans at Cannae.

How long would you say a campaign like this takes to finish?

Cumandante wrote:How long would you say a campaign like this takes to finish?

There are six campaign turns. It will take a few days to get everyone's move in because it is done openly and sequentially. I am starting with 20 calendar days to complete the battles. My guess is that the campaign will take under six months, but it all depends on how quickly the round of battles is completed, which is something out of my control.

rexhurley wrote:Hi there I'm a sucker for punishment whatever Ian doesn't want I will take the other of the two that are left thank you.

And thanks I thought I was going to miss out out this should be fun and if all goes well who knows I might even end up facing the parthians.....

If you and iandavidsmith each pick an empire then we would have all 12 players and we can get started.

Maybe Ian and rex should have what's left but otherwise I can take Nabataea if that's ok.

hidde wrote:Maybe Ian and rex should have what's left but otherwise I can take Nabataea if that's ok.

Sure. You snooze, you lose.

There is one player position left. Once it is filled, we can start.

I've updated the campaign rules to allow a bye if we end up with an odd number of players. We'll start Wednesday night (EDT) at the latest even if we have an odd number of players. The Arabs have been a tough sell.

I thought that a point based system would provide balanced games, but apparently players still have reservations. I have a large DBM Pictish army, which is one of those affectionately called a "Wall of Crap" army, and I have won with them. A friend of mine has a WoC Libyan army (mostly light foot), that stretches from side to side (and then some) on an 8' table. Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

w_michael wrote:

hidde wrote:Maybe Ian and rex should have what's left but otherwise I can take Nabataea if that's ok.

Sure. You snooze, you lose.

There is one player position left. Once it is filled, we can start.

Sorry , not getting pm notification for some reason , i'll take the last position if its still available
Ian

The campaign has started. Please use the following topic for gameplay: http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtop ... 06#p683206

Thanks for running the campaign

AlessandroD wrote:Thanks for running the campaign

No problem. Have fun!

I find that even the movement sequence stage can be exciting. You know your sequence number, but will people moving before you take out those players who would normally move ahead of you? I've played in a 20+ player campaign and drew sequence tile 16. I thought that I had no chance to attack, but everyone with a better number was already committed to battle when it was my turn, so I was able to attack.