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Post by Antoine on Sept 30, 2017 21:23:54 GMT
If you wanna play savage Calts, well, you can go for II/11 Gauls or II/53 Ancient British. Both armies are able to field a lot of fast infantry (3Wb) and mounted troops (Cv, Lch or LH). Manœuvrable and fun
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Post by Antoine on Sept 30, 2017 21:18:19 GMT
Book X of the Marius Mules series, by SJA Turney. Gallic wars are over and the hero is now fighting with Caesar against Pompeians in Hispania
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Post by Antoine on Sept 30, 2017 21:09:50 GMT
Do they mix well with Essex ? I love their iberian troops and armored seleucid elephants !
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Post by Antoine on Sept 30, 2017 20:37:32 GMT
Yesterday two battles: Celtiberians against Rome... Two Celtiberian victories but very long games, both sides steadily holding their ground !
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Post by Antoine on Sept 30, 2017 20:34:45 GMT
True: Alexander companions were pretty agile
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Post by Antoine on Sept 30, 2017 10:55:37 GMT
All right, I did play it right
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Post by Antoine on Sept 29, 2017 21:34:50 GMT
Ok so I have a question:
AAA ......BBB element A ends up in corner to corner overlapp with element B because of a recoil/pursuit: does it have to conform to element B ?
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Post by Antoine on Sept 29, 2017 21:02:03 GMT
I think the logical reason might be that, if loosing they recoil out of immediate danger, but if the combat is a tie, then they are bogged down in these dangerous troops and are killed. Hope it makes sense
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Post by Antoine on Sept 27, 2017 22:54:57 GMT
I'll try to play it this way next time
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Post by Antoine on Sept 27, 2017 21:23:00 GMT
Well, having a fixed army composition before placing terrain isn't specified in the rule ! We often choose our options when deploying, while drinking cold beer The defender places the terrain, then the attacker chooses his table edge and drinks wine/beer while the defender deploys. The attacker then deploys, adapting his army to terrain/ennemy. That's how we play it and no one feels cheated.
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Post by Antoine on Sept 27, 2017 21:11:50 GMT
Very nice reports, thanks. The armies are quite nice looking. In some of the pictures I'm wondering what is the terrain feature that is sort of squarish with a T-shaped road looking part? A hamlet. Also in the early pictures what is the rectangular shaped terrain piece in the back corner? The terrain feature with a T-shaped road is indeed a hamlet. The Brown rectangular terrain features are plough.
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Post by Antoine on Sept 25, 2017 21:22:06 GMT
I mostly play Ancients and mostly the punic war era. I enjoy playing the reliable Romans Blades, the polyvalent Carthaginians and macedonian phalangites. But the more I play, the more I love playing my Gauls ! I'm even gonna build a new gaulish army based on the Essex naked fanatics minis Warbands, and especially 3Wb are one of my favoured troop type: a lot of QKs, very manœuvrable and with Gauls, you can support them with a lot of cavalry !
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Post by Antoine on Sept 25, 2017 20:37:46 GMT
Thanks guys
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Post by Antoine on Sept 24, 2017 15:09:20 GMT
Today's battle was an epic clash between Gauls and later carthaginians. The carthaginian chose to deploy where the terrain was the worst, willing to deny these areas to the gauls, but lousy starting PIPs didn't help: A plan never survives the first minutes of the battle The Gauls won 6-5, a nice pyrrhic victory. Twice the bound ended with a tie: firstly 4 losses each then 5 each ! After a rough start for carthage, who lost 2 stands without inflicting loss, the whole armies commited and the meatgrinder began to take its toll ! Below picture is how it ended: Carthaginians lost almost all their infantry despite heroic defenses: a stand of Lybian veterans (Sp) held 3 turns while flanked and a stand of spanish Scutari (4Ax) killed 2 stands of gaulish warriors (4Wb) in a long struggle on the right flank. The Gaulish Chieftain had to commit and finish these insolent Iberians ! Both generals even fought for a while, neither of them succeeding to kill his counterpart. Here are all those who now sit in their Ancestor's Halls :
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Post by Antoine on Sept 23, 2017 21:57:24 GMT
This last week I've played around 10 games with friends : Later macedonians had a hard time against polybian romans, they lost three times, destroying one Triarii stand in 3 games... (0-5, 0-6, those high scores are due to one-turn "cascade flanking" and 1-4). The fourth game saw them use wisely the woods and the BUA to anchor the phalanx flanks, and they won 4-0 against the romans who fielded pergamon allies (Kn, Ps and 3Ax). A friend wanted to face the Later carthaginians with polybian legions: 2 carthaginian victories (4-0 and 4-0) and one roman victory (4-3). The 4 last games were Gauls facing Rome and then Celtiberians. The Gaul won once, again Rome. The guys now have a good understanding of the rules and the importance of threat zones and flanking 2 new DBA players !
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