Well, Historicon is now behind us, I hope you all had as much fun as I did! I am almost caught back up on my sleep! Now it is time to turn our thoughts...
The usual priority marker has a symbol for Good on one side and a symbol for Evil on the other. We have found that in the heat of battle, it can be easy to...
In Lord of The Rings Strategy Battle Game, models that lose a hand-to-hand combat but are not killed, are pushed back 1 cm, out of contact with their foe....
... I think it works well, because it gives you a 50% chance of disengaging if you wish. In reality people are not 'locked' in close combat - they can try to...
For LOTR I like it. I see the "press" of fighters causing all sorts of havoc when trying to back away from a superior enemy. So even if I won initiative, I may...
Hi Bruce, I agree with Steve, it works well and is actually one of my favorite things about these rules. What it allows for is a much more dynamic, swirling...
Or use their Zones of Control defensively to limit how and where the opponent can charge. This rules mechanic works very well in my opinion. It does a fair...
... This is one of the many things I like about the LOTR system, I never was a fan of the locked until death melee found in Warhammer. The lack of a lock-in...
I agree with all the others, by not locking models in combat means you don't have to mess around with more rules, such as free strikes and breaking away. You...
To: LOTRvariants@yahoogroups.com Or use their Zones of Control defensively to limit how and where the opponent can charge. This rules mechanic works very well...
... Agreed. It works well enough for Warhammer as a battle game. Once units are engaged they do fight until one side breaks and runs away. When that was...
Still racking my brains on how to handle the pila, I've come up with this compromise. After a bit of reading it appears that the Pila was not thrown on the...
This is a small gripe so should not be taken as an attack on the sacred canon of the LOTR-SBG rules. Apart from the Dwarfs, it seems that every force fights in...
Outflank them. The biggest problem with these supported lines is their short length. A group of shield bearing warriors can almost always outnumber the...
... [...] ... I've not really seen this, it seems to be either all spears or no spears in the games I've played. That or Heroes against Hordes where the...
Can't say that I ever seen this as a problem and is reletively realistic anyway as there are countless real-life armies that used spears and see no reason to...
... I think that was generally how it was used but was it exclusively so? Some writers think that it was also used on the charge. That must have been quite...
Seeing as more people were talking about rules on the Warlord Games forum I thought that I should try and push things along a bit. Here is my idea for the...
These are a bit more difficult to pin down. My (current) favourite author of Roman matters seems to differentiate between the Druid elders and Druid warriors....
Thanks very much for all the thoughtful replies. I should have been more clear in my original post. I wasn't necessarily looking for a tactical way to defeat...
... We find that if second-rank spears are not used in lines, the player with the initiative can often simply move round to attack the rear guy with spare...
Fighting in pairs is actually a lot more common than you might think. It gave you someone to cover your back. Two man teams have been around a long time in...
I was under the impression that the scorpion was a "rapid" fire weapon that was fed by a hipper mechanism and was reloaded and fired by turning a crank. At...
The Scorpio seems fine, but wouldn't the crew have the same profile as the legionaries? Dave ... Games forum I thought that I should try and push things along...
Personally I didn't invisage the Shaman as been potent fighters themselves and would have gone for the straight Orc Shaman profile without armour. If this...
The single shot weapon appears to be the most common and the semi- auto version was built in the C3BC, whether these were actually common and used is unknown....
That would be the episode I have on my TIVO. From: LOTRvariants@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LOTRvariants@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lotrhithero The single shot...
To: LOTRvariants@yahoogroups.com Fighting in pairs is actually a lot more common than you might think. It gave you someone to cover your back. Two man teams...
To: LOTRvariants@yahoogroups.com I was under the impression that the scorpion was a “rapid” fire weapon that was fed by a hipper mechanism and was reloaded...
... It is the same - straight from your list. What have I missed? <puzzled look> Terry _________________________________________________________________ Win...
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