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38781
Good point Stuart. DBM is starting to wan a little for me to. sometimes it feels like i am number crunching. At least DBMM looks more interesting than other...
tangentpi
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Jan 1, 2007
3:00 pm
38782
... Good ol' Stuart; who needs rational discussion when you can get stuck straight into the abuse? Was that your New Year's resolution? And Happy New Year to...
Duncan Head
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Jan 1, 2007
3:19 pm
38783
Like many issues with these rules we keep discussing them repeatedly with no firm resolutions achieved. As long as these cycles keep recurring the rules will...
ablackdouglas
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Jan 1, 2007
9:16 pm
38784
Should there be a rule requiring TFs to be manned at deployment? Is it too cheesy to have empty TFs with skirmishers or such in front, who will retreat or rout...
Doug
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Jan 1, 2007
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38785
... There's always thir sterling performance a guagamela, where very few of them held up a lot of Persians..... But then 600 light horse "held back" 20,000...
mikecampbell@...
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Jan 2, 2007
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38786
Hi there ... command when he is in close combat this round or last – or he adds the ME value of enemy elements he has killed to his command and the army...
David Brown
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Jan 2, 2007
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38787
By all means, let us rush to emulate "Flames of Warhammer" with an outrageously expensive rulebook padded with colorful but functionally useless ooh-ahh eye...
kilroy44
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Jan 2, 2007
9:02 am
38788
Is there any sense in which the term "bound" is not synonymous with "turn" as it is used as a term of art in wargaming? I have yet to discern a difference. DBx...
Doug
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Jan 2, 2007
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38789
... Its a huge problwm when the generals don't move as fast as their troops -- -- Doug The price of freedom is infernal vigilantes "I have sworn upon the altar...
Doug
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38790
... not a big ... Still, the stated aims of DBMM classification is to base the classes on _role_ rather than equipment, right? And to represent the perceived ...
Lafayette C. Curtis
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Jan 2, 2007
9:18 am
38791
... But DBMM has never been and is never meant to be a beginner's system--if you want beginners to play DBx then just give them DBA....
Lafayette C. Curtis
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Jan 2, 2007
9:24 am
38792
... I wouldn't consider the cost of FoW to be outrageously expensive for a well presented set of rules - certainly when compared to the cost of the lead...
nikgaukroger
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Jan 2, 2007
9:36 am
38793
A pair of bounds was seen as a 'turn', where the word turn (noun) meant "a time when one period of time ends and another begins" (OED). To differentiate...
alastair2d
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Jan 2, 2007
10:56 am
38794
"Lafayette C. Curtis" <l_clausewitz@...> wrote: But DBMM has never been and is never meant to be a beginner's system--if you want beginners to play DBx then...
Stuart
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Jan 2, 2007
11:22 am
38795
By all means, let us rush to emulate "Flames of Warhammer" with an outrageously expensive rulebook padded with colorful but functionally useless ooh-ahh eye...
dave.ruddock@...
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Jan 2, 2007
11:32 am
38796
... I am pretty sure that the word bound was used in old WRG Ancients rules, which were simultaneous movement....
Richard Bodley Scott
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Jan 2, 2007
11:38 am
38797
... From: GEOFF PEARSON To: DBMM-list Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:46 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Army Baggage 22nd Dec's version Hi All Only regular generals...
Phil Barker
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Jan 2, 2007
11:50 am
38798
... Morning Brian, Someone rattle your cage did they? Ok Well in that case yes lets stick with the present bland format, in dense typescript, and written in...
Stuart
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Jan 2, 2007
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38799
... From: <dave.ruddock@...> To: <DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 12:08 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Fleeing from a flank march ...
Phil Barker
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Jan 2, 2007
12:10 pm
38800
Long ago, a number of kindly people told me how to find accents in Word. Over the New Year, I was going through olld (2001) copies of the Sunday Times computer...
Phil Barker
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Jan 2, 2007
12:18 pm
38801
... From: Phil Barker Subject: Re: [DBMMlist] Army Baggage 22nd Dec's version ... From: GEOFF PEARSON Subject: [DBMMlist] Army Baggage 22nd Dec's version Hi...
Geoff Pearson
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Jan 2, 2007
12:30 pm
38802
Shouldn't we consider whether behaving like Alexander was sensible in the first place? He had many close shaves. Shouldn't the tabletop Alexander be trusting...
johnrohdeuk
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Jan 2, 2007
12:31 pm
38803
... From: David Thompson To: DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 5:23 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Re: General Observations ... Phil, I accept...
Phil Barker
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Jan 2, 2007
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38804
... From: "tangentpi" <tangentpi@...> To: <DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 3:02 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Re: strategem query ...
Phil Barker
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Jan 2, 2007
12:33 pm
38805
... IIRC you can get those through the Insert ... Symbol menu item. Nik Gaukroger...
nikgaukroger
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Jan 2, 2007
12:33 pm
38806
I'm no mindreader but I would guess that Phil aims to produce a game that satisfies the likes of Duncan. Contrary to appearances, I don't think Global...
johnrohdeuk
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Jan 2, 2007
12:36 pm
38807
In DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com, "johnrohdeuk" <johnrohdeuk@...> wrote: Shouldn't we consider whether behaving like Alexander was sensible in the first place? He...
Stuart
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Jan 2, 2007
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38808
... From: "Lafayette C. Curtis" <l_clausewitz@...> To: <DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:20 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Re: Thin...
Phil Barker
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Jan 2, 2007
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38809
... From: "brettpt2004" <brettpt@...> To: <DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:17 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Superior Ambiguity ... ...
Phil Barker
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Jan 2, 2007
1:00 pm
38810
... I think there will always be room for both approaches. (A well illustrated Purple-Primer type booklet would be a good idea, though - as would campaign...
Stuart
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