In a message dated 4/30/04 6:27:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... I understand that. I was asking would MaA in WoR reflect all free men, or just the gentry. ...
... Its complex because (and Mark is the expert on WotR) the knight category we have mostly did not exist because the cavalry element contained a mix of armour...
-- Is that what the Greeks do at Plataea? It would be posiible to allow a division to march on in column and then execute a turn to the right. They should be...
This only gets worse. If they were all the same class, is it correct to say that there never was a MA class at all, and this is the real wargamer fabrication? ...
The problem with wheeling and moving is that it is too freely allocated at present. The difining principle should be whether armies utilised this tactic to win...
Coming soon at www.warflute.org Ancient Warfare and the Movies An article on Hollywoods take of pre-gunpowder warfare with an accompanying opportunity for...
All Having looked through the lists there are clearly still some mistakes; a few examples I have spotted: CAMPANIAN Extra H command +3 points, why not +4 as...
A minor error in Early Roman: If any bonus Legio unit is bought, all must be. All bonus Legio units total 76 points. So technically, this exceeds 75 points and...
... Yes. The initial confusion of the about-face set the table, and the reserve's cowardice/treachery finished things. Armed with 20/20 hindsight, Romanus...
In the wasteland that used to be a mind lurks the thought that there has been a vastly different history reconstructed of Manzikert based on Georgian or Syrian...
In a message dated 5/1/04 6:01:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Means any additional Campanians. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Hi Stephen, Try http://rbedrosian.com/hsrces.html Roy In ARMATI@yahoogroups.com, "Subodai Bahadur" <tsubodaibogatyr@c...> ... there ... based ... cite...
In a message dated 5/1/04 6:01:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... From the front a Early Monarch or Republican army would be well protected from missile fire. ...
In a message dated 5/1/04 8:32:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Except this wasn't the way the Byzantines did things. The Tagma would be in the center, the...
Peter Connolly's book Greece and Rome at War speculates on the Carthaginian phalanx infantry at Cannae marching in column up to the Roman flanks, and then...
In a message dated 5/1/04 2:04:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... And it is in Asklepiodotos theoretical drill manual as well. But I'd call these Peoni...
Excellent reference source Stephen. Thanks for posting it. I'll get lots of interesting reading out of that. I have a friend with an Armenian Army, but he...
To speak in Armati terms, this would be a great "senario" rule to try out. One thing to remember when adding rules to a game is to keep it within scope. Is the...
Steve PROTECTION If a unit is well protected from the front only, how does that confer a high PROT when fired on from the rear? Surely (as my suggestion for...
... Great stuff, thank you. Aristakes Lastivertc'i ascribes the defeat to treachery, saying troops changed sides. He also refers to the enemy as Persians, when...
In a game between Republican Romans & a Gallic/Samnite alliance that our group played last night, following the Gallic/Samnites having moved first in their...
In a message dated 5/2/04 8:01:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... There were some non Turkish auxiliaries in the Seljuq army from the area around Ahwaz. These...
Steve Unless I am missing something we seem to agree on most points - ouch. It's just a pity my suggestions and your house rules did not make it into A2. ...
I am going to try and run a matched pairs tournament at Fall-In where I provide all of the armies and terrain. The idea is that each set of armies will be as...
Please note following langugate on page 5 under Ambush Positions: "This may be a support charge if all other conditions for a support charge are met." On page...