First beta lists for the 30YW are online :-) http://www.dadiepiombo.com/vol39e.html I have also added in the ECW list, the New Model Army and the Irish...
Hi Lorenzo, greetings from Somatemt group from Barcelona. We would like to ask you some questions: 1. When does the list of the barroco spanish army will be...
Hi Lorenzo, Great work so far! It is good to see how you are thinking, and with the other guidelines that we see in the rules we will be able to make rough ...
Hello everybody, I'm happy to see people from Barcelona playing Basic Impetus. I have seen from your blog the Impetus event, keep me update in these events in...
Hi John, many thanks. Yes lists from gamers are welcome and can be shared in the mailing lists. Discussion may define them better and then can be trasformed in...
As I have mentioned in the last e-mail we are planning a Spanish version of Impetus. To do this we need some help from Spanish gamers. Those who want to give...
Hi, If we all make up lists, try different things - and alter the factors a little as an experiment - we will be able to see how things look and feel. It is...
John thanks again for support. btw points (total of VBU) of each rmy are around 35 as ideal (possibly not less than 34 and no more than 37). If you see list...
Hopefully the formatting doesn't mess up too badly. Here's a sample list for the War of the Spanish Succession. It's at the tail end of the Basic Baroque...
Hi Tom, good job. Lists look good. Of course at this stage the effect of all musketeers Unit have to be tested, but I'm convinced that the system can work up...
I wish to all Impetus gamers a Merry Christmas and a great 2008, full of miniature battles! ciao Lorenzo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi Lorenzo, is correct? BASING TROOPS 25/28mm 18cm frontage ECW-TYW P&M (Pike&Muskets): 8 cm Tercios: 18cm Skirmishers and Late 17th Cent. P&M: 4cm Irregular...
John McLennan and I had a bash at the Basic Baroque game using 15 mm. 30 YW Imperialists v Bavarians. We used 80 mm wide bases. John is still keen on 120 mm...
Hi Steven, don't make suffer John too much for the basing question ;-) Before answering I want to make a premise. Wargame is a compromise between the History...
I don't see my previous answers so I write again (sometimes yahoogroups loose may mails). I have not yet decided the basing for 28mm. What you suggest is...
New year and new lists now available. These are a dozen of lists of the Volume 31 "War in the New World" and a couple of lists for Volume 1 (Old and Medium...
Has anyone worked on a list for the Koreans or Ming Chinese who fought the Japanese? I have a lot of Perry/Kingsford Samurai and I would have to take a 3rd job...
Way cool! Gives me time to finish my 3 Samurai armies Irondog From: IMPETVS@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IMPETVS@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of losart@... ...
Well I'm happy to announce that Impetus (the book) will be officially launched at SALUTE 08 and it is time for pre-orders. The book will have 60 full color...
13 new lists have been added to Basic Impetus. These are: Khitan-Liao, Jurchen-Chin, Nan-Chao, Early Burmese, Late Burmese, Khmer and Cham, Early Vietnamese,...
... Khmer and Cham, Early Vietnamese, Late Vietnamese, Hindu Indian, Rajputs, Ghurid, Ming Chinese, Yi Koreans ... Lorenzo The Jurchen-Chin should have Heavy...
like Khitan Liao? Lorenzo ... From: russcat9 To: IMPETVS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:29 AM Subject: [IMPETVS] Re: 13 new list for...
Yup. Jurchen cavalry fought in a 5 rank formation, the first 2 ranks being heavily armoured lancers, the rear 3 lighter armoured or unarmoured archers. I...
On second thoughts, given your grading for a lot of heavy cavalry as Medium (reserving Heavy Cavalry for knightly types), keeping the Jurchen-Chin as Medium...
There may be a bit of a language issue here, as the word for 'Knight' in Italian is basically the same for cavalry (cavaliere), we tend to define knights as...
Hi Paul, at the moment there are no the Han (they will come of course, there are still a lot of armies from China to be added). The Hann are a different...
The main difference between CM (aka Medium cavalry) and CP (Heavy Cavalry or Knight) lay on flexibility. Basic Impetus uses various values to identify a troop,...
Lorenzo That's why I deleted this message and replaced it with the other one. I discovered who the Yan were, along with the early Han, and that your lists were...