Rules showed up in Wed. mail along with two one dollar bills. :-) They look fine and a quick skim and a read during lunch hour today has me wondering if I...
Scott, was it the rules that looked fine, or the two one dollar bills? If you spent all lunch reading those dollar bills (and let me tell you they should be...
2nd paragraph page 30 indicates that FORMED units are what is being talked about, not skirmish . Formed units provide flank support and block access to...
... Ooops! I think we've been playing this incorrectly. I can't recall specifically. Regarding Mike H's comments, Warry (who's read far more original sources...
I think I am a bit fuzzy on medium infantry. I have read the description with Gauls given as the standard example. The big things I noticed about the...
... So am I. If I had this to do all over again, I might have a different basis for troop types. I have a lot of trouble with the idea of depicting intervals...
... And you asked for an example: Late Achaemenid Persian Cardaces. These guys just don't strike me as the "rough terrain" types. More like Persian Hoplites...
... <grumbling_grognard@h...> wrote: [snip] ... Hi Scott, This is a very healty attitude to adopt, because it allows you to focus on the game rather than get...
... You mention something that I have been trying to figure out regarding the interplay of the different types of units in the rules over the last couple of...
Scott Clinton wrote: SNIP ... The evade move for LI is only 4 inches. The charge move for the HI is 3 inches--still a difference of 1 inch. For 15mm scale, the...
... My reading on Cardaces is only secondary sources, which I distrust unless they carefully quote the ancient sources. There doesn't seem to be any hard...
... wrote: SNIP Mucho Grande Clarifications and stuff... Ouch! I missed a 'few' points thar... ;-) Let me set up my Thracians and Pike and have another...
SNIP No arguments from me. All I have seen are second and third-hand references (and far fewer than you I suspect). From what Duncan Head has said when I...
... is ... for ... historical ... even if ... Hi Bob, Scott and all, This is PRECISELY the reason why I prefer to use Thracians and other Peltast-types as MI,...
... I kind of like the idea of some sort of large-bodied mass of javelin hurlers somewhere in the rules that does not "melt" like skirmishers. Scott...
... two types with one heavy/pseudo-hoplite and the other a peltast from what I have seen on the net. If you want to explore further how the WAB Persian list...
David Lynch wrote: SNIP ... Wow!!! What a radical thought. Also thought-provoking. LI was not a category in the early days. They came into existence because I...
... The reading on the website cited above I find very interesting--and also confirms my opinion that we don't really know what the cardaces were. Nothing...
... javelin ... skirmishers. ... Hmmm...if my post appears to recommend giving MI javelin missile capability, that was not my intent. What I intended was that...
... other ... the ... then ... or ... permits ... one ... had ... I won't dispute about historical troops I've not read up on. I do like the LI troop type,...
... By "Any javelin use occurred at very close range," I presume you mean massed javelin troops. "...should be considered as part of melee" is the reason that...
... Hi Bob, Mike and all, After giving this some more thought I did some brief research and came across this excellent description of peltasts in action from ...
I like the troop type just as it is. It creates a unique military situation and gives armies that use shoot and scoot tactics a real role in the game. My...
... mean ... is the ... javelin are ... troops ... as ... skirmishers. Hi Bob and all, Yes. As set forth in my most recent post with the quotes, I agree that...
p38 says: "A formed unit that fails a morale check for evading still performs its evade move." I was wondering: What happens to skirmishers (including LC) when...
