I gather there are some UK tourney memebers / interested parties who are not on the UK Armati group. For such , please note there is an agenda for this years...
Historically elephants were not very effective against dispersed infantry, the rules reflect that. Hannibal's battle against the Celts over the Rhone does not...
I agree. Coincidentally, I am presently engaged in a "what if" battle between Romans and Carthaginians. What if the Romans had caught up with Hannibal before...
... wise players choose them. I do not think that elephants were super troops, but then I do not see elephants in Armati as having even the level of success...
... Scipio is transporting his army by sea. He will have had only a tiny number of cavalry with him. They would have been hired on arrival in Spain from...
Again, I am in agreement. Lazenby (pages 36-37) reports that 500 Numidians faced just 300 Roman horse. Surprisingly, the Romans forced the skilled lights to...
... wonder if the RR army in the A2 lists lacks allied LI or LHI. Some of the descriptions in battles imply that the allies are more flexible with reference to...
Its an old misconception that Numidians fought hand to hand as did other cavalry. When charged by opposing cavalry they would break up into their squadrons and...
How little we seem to know about elephants, in or out of the game. The elephant was not most effective against infantry, but in fighting cavalry. To those who...
At the batle of Ipsus in 301 BC elephants were used to prevent the superior cavalry of Demetrius returning from pursuit and winning the battle. They were...
We should also bear in mind that LI are dispersed by HI and may not interpenetrate their own HI. This makes assaulting a battleline of mixed EL and HI with LI...
... Having had practical experience of this I'd have to say that mixing the Elephants with HI does not work against LI. The LI might lose a unit, but a single...
Pete, I found Roy's list of battles where the elephants where deployed against cavalry to be instructive. Could you provide a counter list of elephants...
Battle of Bhamo - i think. Mongols vs Burmese. Cant remember where i read about this one but pretty sure the burmese use nellies vs the mongols Steve ... ...
Roy, I went with theFabian Roman list on Warflute. This represented something of a change for me, as I am an Advanced ARMATI fan/user. Due to financial and...
I certainly did not mean to promote the misconception. I just found it interesting that Numidians were bested by Roman horse. Evidently, I have a biased based...
This elephant battle list has been done by myself once before and this year at that. I was tempted to answer this mail, but this was the usual Aligern ignoring...
Hi Peter: I met you briefly at a Britcon years ago (2003?). I enjoyed the Armati chat of the British gamers then and I have found much of your contribution to...
... Did I forget Zama? There Hannibal lines his elephants up centrally ad sends them against the legions. Scipio counters this by opening lanes for the...
So at Zama the elephants should perhaps be non-key. Perhaps they could be no-key and on a FV3? That would allow for being 'raw' so to speak. Some of the...
I have searched back through the group postings for Luxor's list of elephants in ancient battles on the flanks, and I am afraid I cannot find it in the last 12...
... 'Yea a Daniel come to judgement' as they say!! I must confess that I use scythed chariots as a reserve, and why not, considering that they are ever so...
... scythed chariots behind their infantry line. Perhaps this opens to let them through. The reference is in Scullard Elephant in the Greek and Roman World. ...
So whilst I was away, Rob did a podcast ... which told me nothing ... and as a consequence, Peter has abandoned the Armati community ... meanwhile we carry on...
... Not convinced by the podcast format, Rob (I couldn't fastforward to the interesting bits ...). Would have prefered the usual postings, here. Can see...
Some approaches in the ancient world seem to involve the 'massed' use of elephants, others the attachment of smaller quantities to other units. I'm not sure...
