LPIA

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:07 am

Will there be a LPIA list in FoG, and if so will they have the camels option under other lists ?

Cheers

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:37 pm

None of the planned supplements have a LPIA list.

If such a beast were to be written at some later date (the oft mentioned "Lost Scrolls" I doubt it would have the sort of camel option that, say, the DBM list has.

GKChesterton1976 · Post by **GKChesterton1976** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:12 am

forgive my ignorance but what is lpia?

Adrian

Morange · Post by **Morange** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:33 am

Later Pre-Islamic Arab.

Smackyderm · Post by **Smackyderm** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:42 am

Ah... I didn't know that, either.

I don't speak DBM... never played it. (I assume this is DBMspeak?)

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:29 am

Tis indeed DBM-speak. A very popular army on the comp circuit at one point, probably why people are asking about it.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:23 am

nikgaukroger wrote:Tis indeed DBM-speak. A very popular army on the comp circuit at one point, probably why people are asking about it.

popular not because it was historically significant but because it combined sciscors, paper and stone nicely in one cheap package or rather light horse to skirmish, camels to fight enemy mounted and blades to fight enemy foot add in some auxiliaries for terrain and you are sorted.

Just a pity that historically there was not much in the way of a large LPIA army at any point.

Phaze_of_the_Moon · Post by **Phaze_of_the_Moon** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:36 am

Should probably exist as a list if only to provide allies. Believe they are one of the most allied lists in DBM, and I could not begin to count the lists that have a smattering of Arab LH.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:50 am

There is an Arab ally list in Rise of Rome.

Phaze_of_the_Moon · Post by **Phaze_of_the_Moon** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:45 am

nikgaukroger wrote:There is an Arab ally list in Rise of Rome.

Sure enough, tucked away in the middle of the Parthians. Multiply it by four and you have an army.