Timeline

bddbrown · Post by **bddbrown** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:40 am

Any thoughts on when the next re-write of the rules will be issued to the beta-testers? I am just thinking ahead to how many games we can get under the current set of rules.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:50 am

We think it's around 2 weeks away. Sorry for the delay - it's just such a big job and the guys are working hard to make sure this version is a major improvement in all areas.

bddbrown · Post by **bddbrown** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:01 pm

No worries - there is no rush as far I am concerned. Just wanted to know to plan games around. Sounds like we either get one more game in, in which case we will swap armies and rules to see how the new rules work. Alternatively if not then we'll get another pair of games swapping just the armies. Might be too late to influence the new rules, but maybe something for the set after.

bddbrown · Post by **bddbrown** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:58 pm

This is good news indeed. Already looking forward to them!

Any chance that we will see a few more army lists at the same time - some chinese armies would be nice for a bit of variety and test another popular period for historical feel.

shall · Post by **shall** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:43 pm

Bruce,

I have passed your requests for some more army lists to the amry list team. There is a huge amont of work going on - with some able helpers - working on lots of lists at present. I am sure they can do soemthing to expand the selectin for testers.

Si

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:08 pm

Well you could give them all 131 (or is it 133 now?) on condition that all armies are tested at least once before the end of the year

But seriously - could they have the Late Roman Republican list and somebody run a test game with maxiumum Elite legionarii against a mainly Average enemy? It would help me (at least) judge how many Elite troops may be reasonable in game terms.

shall · Post by **shall** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:39 pm

I'll let Richard, you and Paul make a decision and then Richard can put an answer up here for people......bit out of my depth with 133 lists...I'm only any good at Japanese history....

Si

bddbrown · Post by **bddbrown** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:21 pm

nikgaukroger wrote:Well you could give them all 131 (or is it 133 now?) on condition that all armies are tested at least once before the end of the year

But seriously - could they have the Late Roman Republican list and somebody run a test game with maxiumum Elite legionarii against a mainly Average enemy? It would help me (at least) judge how many Elite troops may be reasonable in game terms.

Well, maybe not all 131!

We can certainly fight a game between two army lists that you provide (armies and not just the lists themselves). Drop me an email with the army lists (say 600pts) and we'll give it a whirl.

I wonder how it would work out on the table - my gut reaction is that the legionaries will rout average units, but the larger size of the average army will probably prevent a result in any meaningful time frame. Plus in all the games we have played no one has managed a flank contact, which is where I would say you have the only chance of beating better units. And we have been playing with a lot of cavalry.

jdm · Post by **jdm** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:33 pm

I read the other mails before reading this. No problem in passing these lists to Bruce for testing

Regards
JDM