Post by stevie on Feb 12, 2017 18:58:41 GMT
DBA 3.0 doesn’t have any kind of time limit, and this can seriously distort the re-creation of many historical battles.
Take Hastings for example. Why should William the Conqueror risk an uphill charge with his knights when he has an infinite amount of time to just sit at the bottom of Senlac Hill and use his bowmen and crossbows to shoot Harold’s Saxons to death? Then there is Roman general Crassus at the battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, desperately wishing for night to relieve his beleaguered legionaries from the relentless arrows of the Parthian horse archers. And should Alexander the Great really have all the time in the world to sit on the banks of the river Granicus/Issus/Hydaspes, continually rolling an re-rolling his PIP dice until he throws a ‘6’ in order to maximize the number of troops he can wade across?
Because there is one thing that we wargamers seem to have forgotten, something that every general in every battle of every period knows with absolute certainty....night is approaching.
So this “Time of Day Display” has been constructed to show the passage of time as the ancients would have perceived it.
You could just use it for re-creating historical battles, but I prefer to use it in every battle (especially those involving any kind of shooting), because I don’t know in advance if the fight will be quick or a long drawn-out engagement that will last till nightfall.
And it can be found here: fanaticus-dba.wikia.com/wiki/File:TIME_OF_DAY_DISPLAY.pdf
But it also has another unexpected use....it can actually make weak Ax and Ps armies playable.
All that is needed is the “Time of Day Display” along with the following ‘gentleman’s agreement’:-
--The invader must either defeat the defender, or at least destroy their camp, before nightfall or the defender wins the battle--
(Download the Display for the full details)
Apart from all the reasons given above, the “Time of Day Display” looks pretty nice too.
Some potentially useful player aids can be found here, including the latest FAQ and the Quick Reference Sheets from the Society of Ancients:-
fanaticus-dba.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Reference_sheets_and_epitomes
Take Hastings for example. Why should William the Conqueror risk an uphill charge with his knights when he has an infinite amount of time to just sit at the bottom of Senlac Hill and use his bowmen and crossbows to shoot Harold’s Saxons to death? Then there is Roman general Crassus at the battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, desperately wishing for night to relieve his beleaguered legionaries from the relentless arrows of the Parthian horse archers. And should Alexander the Great really have all the time in the world to sit on the banks of the river Granicus/Issus/Hydaspes, continually rolling an re-rolling his PIP dice until he throws a ‘6’ in order to maximize the number of troops he can wade across?
Because there is one thing that we wargamers seem to have forgotten, something that every general in every battle of every period knows with absolute certainty....night is approaching.
So this “Time of Day Display” has been constructed to show the passage of time as the ancients would have perceived it.
You could just use it for re-creating historical battles, but I prefer to use it in every battle (especially those involving any kind of shooting), because I don’t know in advance if the fight will be quick or a long drawn-out engagement that will last till nightfall.
And it can be found here: fanaticus-dba.wikia.com/wiki/File:TIME_OF_DAY_DISPLAY.pdf
But it also has another unexpected use....it can actually make weak Ax and Ps armies playable.
All that is needed is the “Time of Day Display” along with the following ‘gentleman’s agreement’:-
--The invader must either defeat the defender, or at least destroy their camp, before nightfall or the defender wins the battle--
(Download the Display for the full details)
Apart from all the reasons given above, the “Time of Day Display” looks pretty nice too.
Some potentially useful player aids can be found here, including the latest FAQ and the Quick Reference Sheets from the Society of Ancients:-
fanaticus-dba.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Reference_sheets_and_epitomes
