IMO the sort of 'gamesmanship' discussed already is (mostly) perfectly fair as long as a) no actual lies are told and b) no correct information that the...
... It certainly doesn't put you in my bad book. As you know I have been in favour of the IWF being multi-ruleset since RINIWA joined in 2003. It seems to me...
... Tend to agree - I stopped just taking the army I was using years back, when I realised the opponent was basing his game on the army that he had seen lying...
... Personally, I would prefer a historical game that was fun and competitive - and have used DBM to good effect to achieve this in scenario games (at least...
Andy Bascombe
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Oct 1, 2007 10:42 am
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... DBM also does historical games well, IMO. It's a shame that so many players only ever play equal points encounter games....
Steve Totally agree with you. I have in past years run Gaugamela as a scenario using DBM, 3+ players a side, on a 12 x 4 table, with very imbalanced armies and...
Andy Bascombe
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Oct 1, 2007 10:54 am
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... I find that when you replay really large battles like this with DBM, two things happen: 1. The table is totally fileld with troops from side to side, so ...
One way forward is to post your scenarios (via the group's file link?) to show that there is life outside the competition circuit? Setting up balanced and...
Can anyone please advise me on Republican Roman shield patterns? The reference books I have seem to entirely gloss over the subject. I appreciate this may...
Andy Bascombe
andy.bascombe@...
Oct 1, 2007 12:28 pm
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Per DBM rules the nominal strength of an element is 122 to 256 soldiers. In a typical 400AP list, consisting of 50-80 elements, this translates to a total army...
... soldiers. ... translates ... snip ... playing ... Most competition games in the UK are 500AP doubles, though outside the UK it seems very rare. Possibly...
... Some of the recent list talk has indicated frustration with the big flanking maneuvers, lack of "getting it right" at deployment, etc. Before reinventing...
Quite frankly, either! ________________________________ From: dbmlist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dbmlist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of gregmannuk Sent: 01 October...
Andy Bascombe
andy.bascombe@...
Oct 1, 2007 2:46 pm
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... I think the lists probably work better at 500AP or near to 300AP because then the minima bite (300AP) or the maxima bite (500AP) so you end up with armies...
... I've done my camillans as plain shields. From what I've read there were some devices painted on shields, but it's not clear what - animal heads boar,wolf...
I have my early romans painted with dark blue, yellow, orange and white colours. No particular signs or symbols.I guess we have lack of info but painting the...
I also think that new research developed from recent excavations specifies that the ranks wore white tunics rather than the famous red coloured ones which...
I think the answer is that nobody knows. There's loads of Early Imperial patterns. I seem to recall that we know the *insides* of the shields were painted...
Steve Thanks - looks like I can pretty much get away with what I want (and possibly an easier paint job than I had suspected)! I don't suppose you know the...
Andy Bascombe
andy.bascombe@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:36 pm
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Posted by: "Hector Haratsis" ehector85@... ehector85 ... that the ranks wore white tunics rather >than the famous red coloured ones which could be used to...
... No, that's the old new research - and it wasn't based on "recent excavations" either. The _new_ new research suggests that red was actually worn in battle...
... Livy, Caesar and Polybius, IIRC. In one of the Punic War battles, a Carthaginian noticed the new shields and knew reinforcements had arrived. During the...
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