Hello all, A quick point re mounted infantry... According to the rules... "They always count as foot when shooting, shot at or in close combat, and so do not...
... I thnik it might get a bit too complicated - what sort of mounted do they count as - ie if on horses are they Kn or Cv or Lh? What do they count as if on...
Hi, Can some one help me with how baggage works in DBMM. To date I've been ignoring it and treating it the same as DBM, but it's clearly different in the...
... compulsory? - no. each general may have 0-2 elements (pg 9) so my Spanish Ally general baggage must remain with him (page 9) how does it do this? and if I...
Jeff responding to Stuart; ... I actually I prefer it to be abstract. However, how about this for an idea. Currently the "horse-holders" are removed if they...
... just that. ... A very apt statement. Up to this point I'm still confused on how to handle mounted infantry--I second the motion that the rules should be ...
Hi all, Just want to post this message from the new New Zealand International Wargames Society. Any overseas Kiwi DBx player or simply interested, please...
... the entire Sound Track of the Sound of Music to, as the Von Trapps take to the sea. As unreliable allies, surely - at least against the Swiss? Wondering ...
Hi wanted to drag this back to the original instance that prompted my first post. Several taxeis of Phalangites each 4 elements deep against Gallic Warbands in...
... that ... common ... going ... Common sense says to me that it's unlikely that the Gauls would slaughter one taxeis while making no material progress...
... that ... common ... going ... This is still a good point. The TZ, even if reinstated to extend from a front rank in contact, would not prevent the...
... Hi John, way back, when this farago began, I was part of a discussion wherien I wax lirical about starting DBMM from a blank page insetad of a 3.0 DBM...
... Right, got the scene. ... Only the first 2 elements of the taxeis would be destroyed. At least initially. Things not going well for the phalangites. ... ...
... exactly ... their ... would ... Larry D. is probably the man for this but it should perhaps be borne in mind that Swiss and Landsknecht squares seem to...
As an aside (i.e.not a TZ issue) but Ps are very useful against warband any self respecting pike block should have either Ps +/or Ax supporting it (in...
To some degree only having four deep blocks is a mind set of DBM, DBMM encourages deeper formations. I already use my warband armies 4 deep and intermitently...
Thank you John Incidentally I fought this game a second time, during which the warbands failed against all four of the Taxeis frontally. They did also get...
... DBMM encourages deeper formations. I already use my warband armies 4 deep and intermitently along the line 5 deep. My Pk(F) are always 5 deep to ensure the...
... Not at all - they were regularly deployed in other depths - 8 and 32 are known specifically IIRC. They were trained to fight in file-sized units, but the...
... are ... men. I dimly recall from my childhoood reading, secondary accounts of depths well above 16 at Succesor battles; Raphia rings a bell. I hesitated to...
There is a difference between history and how the rules play, if Pike are facing cavalry then two DBMM ranks are fine but two ranks against Wb or blades is...
... reinforce ... Hellenistic ... 32 are ... men. My understanding is that they were organised in files of 16 with two 'NCOs', file leader and file closer....
... 32 ... 8 ... depths ... ( ... fill ... weak ... In ... and ... I'm not sure about Raphia, which was of course a Pike v Pike battle. The Seleucids according...
... Though as each elt represents 3 to 5 ranks, one needn't be too puncillious about any discrepancy. Extra ranks can also represent a more densely ordered...
... True, but 16 is clearly the standard situation. 12 is also mentioned as an option in the manuals, but unlike 8 and 32, there is no surviving account of...
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