mmmh, the list seems pretty quiet... I know that a lot of people is trying Basic Impetus (and dowloads of the rules -continue) but not much feed-back in this...
A new section in Basic Impetus web site: the gallery. I have started this section with pics from my rebased "Communal Italian" (28mm mostly Black Tree Design)....
Beautiful work Lorenzo! Thanks for sharing. The old Hinchliffe figures bring back some memories for me. Dave ... Italian" (28mm mostly Black Tree Design). ...
Ancient Spanish Lists, along with Later Macedonians are now online at www.dadiepiombo.com/vol5e.html Lorenzo [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hi Lorenzo, apart from historical accuracy, is there any reason, why I should use the Option 2 for the Iberians (to replace Caetrati with slings). The slings...
Hi Marc, from a pure gaming point of view no reason. The choice is just to give the possibility to deploy Balearic mercenaries with an Iberian army. Consider...
Actually, I still have to try a full game, but I also have the impression slings are underrated... in ancient times especially slings were considered as ...
I second this. However, it seems logic that a sling unit (as well as a bow unit) has always an I value of 0, while Javelins should not. ... slings are ... ...
As for slings, these have the same values of "short" bows. The only advantage of bow is range. BTW Basic tend to flatten some values. Distance rates are 10U or...
Last sunday a Basic Impetus competition has taken place near Placentia (Italy). 14 gamers, 15mm armies for the 1000-1300 AD period. Pics, results and armies...
Hey, looks like Turks are still popular... and I thought I was the only one to still have an Ottoman army... ;) Any idea why so few saracens? Is it a choice of...
Hi Claudio, I realized now that I didn't answer you about armies involved. Well, one consideration is that most of the gamers were former DBA gamers and...
Hi Just discovered Basic Impetus. After skimming through the rules, one aspect that seems non-apparent to me is some element of command & control. It seems...
Welcome on board Paul, yes in Basic command and control has been kept the simplest as possible. Actually what is important is to have your general alive to get...
Thanks Lorenzo. Sounds fair. Looking forward to putting an army together! Cheers. ... possible. Actually what is important is to have your general alive to get...
any preference about period or any army list not yet published you are interested in? Lorenzo ... From: russcat9 To: IMPETVS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday,...
Ooh yeah, lots! Samurai. Especially Sengoku. Medieval Russians, right up to Ivan IV. Medieval Poles. Wallachian. Central Asian Turks (Gok, Uighur etc). Avars,...
pheew, just a start ;-) well some of these lists are under construction. The next to be releases should be (not necessary in this order) 1) Tudor War 2)...
Excellent! I'll be keeping a close eye on those updates, especially the samurai. I have a lot of ready-to-be-painted Sengoku period samurai by Old Glory, to do...
yes the list will be similar. Theere will be also palvese and I'm thinking about (could an optional unit) a Unit with improvised town militias reinforced with...
Yes, peasants like Ikko Ikki make a good option. Also Warrior Monks. Cheers Paul ... optional unit) a Unit with improvised town militias reinforced with local...
New lists available from volumes 17 and 21. These are Teutonic Orders (2 lists), Estonians, Prussians, Later Polish, Nevskji Russians and Mongol Conquest ...
and kudo's to the latest issue of Dadi & Piombo, the slick and cool wargame mag from Italy. Thanks Lorenzo. I will be placing my order for a subscription...
A have question let`s see: I have my missile troops armed with short bows (VBU=3) and I want to fire at an unit, so my unit will use this line: SHORT BOW...
100% correct! :-) Lorenzo ... From: Iván To: IMPETVS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: [IMPETVS] A question about fires A have...
Well Polish version of B.I. is now ready to be downloaded (in case if you are Polish of course ;-) It is a Word file as we had some problem in convert into a...
Hi Lorenzo, did you try to convert the Polish version into PDF with OpenOffice? This free program (which is better than Word anyway) can open Word Documents ...
Hi Marc, actually the situation is more complex. The problem is to edit the text with X-Press to give the same appearance of the other versions (with colout...
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