Late Achaemenid Persion list issues (1.2.11)
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:13 pm
Glad to see this make it to the beta. A few issues caught my attention at first glance:
1) Cavalry horse archers should be a separate limit from the light spear cavalry. The TT list limits them to a max of 8, I believe, so it should probably be 0-4 for all of the cavalry archers as a separate group. (I'm happy to have the option of up to 21 in the 1.2.11 list but it does seem overly generous
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2) 0-1 count for Persian slingers is wrong. I believe the TT list allows as many as it does for Persian archers. (I think it's a separate line/count from the archers but don't have my list here to verify that.)
3) Persian slingers should not have offensive spear capability.
4) The same image used for armoured, superior "Persian" cavalry and for protected, poor "Kappadokian" cavalry, but there are different images used for all the other different levels and armour of light spear cavalry? There are separate images for all the levels of bow cavalry.
5) I'm not sure it's entirely appropriate to assign arbitrary nationalities to different experience levels of cavalry. One might almost be convinced that you have a bias against Armenians and Kappadokians. They don't have different nationalities in the TT lists and in particular the TT lists note Bactrians and Saka were the cavalry most likely to still be primarily bow armed and these would probably both qualify as superior and armoured from historical accounts.
6) The LH group (Bactrians, Saka, Pathyaian) should be separate categories with 0-3 allowed for each.
7) In the Darius list, count for Elephants should be 1-1. I think they are mandatory as are Guard Cavalry and Guard Infantry in the TT list. Guard Cavalry should probably be 1-2. I see the Guard Infantry is already 2-2 which sounds correct.
Chris
1) Cavalry horse archers should be a separate limit from the light spear cavalry. The TT list limits them to a max of 8, I believe, so it should probably be 0-4 for all of the cavalry archers as a separate group. (I'm happy to have the option of up to 21 in the 1.2.11 list but it does seem overly generous
. )2) 0-1 count for Persian slingers is wrong. I believe the TT list allows as many as it does for Persian archers. (I think it's a separate line/count from the archers but don't have my list here to verify that.)
3) Persian slingers should not have offensive spear capability.
4) The same image used for armoured, superior "Persian" cavalry and for protected, poor "Kappadokian" cavalry, but there are different images used for all the other different levels and armour of light spear cavalry? There are separate images for all the levels of bow cavalry.
5) I'm not sure it's entirely appropriate to assign arbitrary nationalities to different experience levels of cavalry. One might almost be convinced that you have a bias against Armenians and Kappadokians
. They don't have different nationalities in the TT lists and in particular the TT lists note Bactrians and Saka were the cavalry most likely to still be primarily bow armed and these would probably both qualify as superior and armoured from historical accounts.6) The LH group (Bactrians, Saka, Pathyaian) should be separate categories with 0-3 allowed for each.
7) In the Darius list, count for Elephants should be 1-1. I think they are mandatory as are Guard Cavalry and Guard Infantry in the TT list. Guard Cavalry should probably be 1-2. I see the Guard Infantry is already 2-2 which sounds correct.
Chris