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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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... 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...
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... 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 ...
... 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...
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...
"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...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
... From: <dave.ruddock@...> To: <DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 12:08 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Fleeing from a flank march ...
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...
... From: Phil Barker Subject: Re: [DBMMlist] Army Baggage 22nd Dec's version ... From: GEOFF PEARSON Subject: [DBMMlist] Army Baggage 22nd Dec's version Hi...
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...
... From: David Thompson To: DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 5:23 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Re: General Observations ... Phil, I accept...
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...
In DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com, "johnrohdeuk" <johnrohdeuk@...> wrote: Shouldn't we consider whether behaving like Alexander was sensible in the first place? He...
... 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...