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Post by attilathenun on Nov 26, 2018 14:06:01 GMT
I personally think “stagnation” is a good thing with regard to games. Like with chess, I want to learn the rules and play them and not have to keep getting new additions or revisions or errata sheets or FAQs. I find that the fun is learning the tactics and maneuvers that help me win the games, not worrying about why the rules are, just wanting to know what they are. Once everyone agrees on what the rules mean, let’s play the game. Too true!
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Post by attilathenun on Nov 26, 2018 14:03:15 GMT
I would prefer to be in the Mediterranean rather than 'gaming' the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, colour me interested.
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Post by attilathenun on Nov 23, 2018 9:49:13 GMT
Tantalising!
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Post by attilathenun on Nov 15, 2018 17:37:49 GMT
I've just written up some reports from my recollections of the day over on the battle reports section.
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Post by attilathenun on Nov 15, 2018 11:26:35 GMT
Because of the way in which the Tarrington tourney works there are a number of schools of thought on what army to take. Some people want to have something strong and solid to give them a strong possibility of an easy win in the last round, others like to take along something overly challenging. I definitely fall into the “Schadenfreude” camp, and my main objective was to go home with the elusive and coveted “most challenging army” trophy.
To that end, I picked a Later Hellenistic Greek army. “What’s challenging about a load of thorakitai or hoplites?” I hear you say. Well, I went for the Aitolian League. That list includes a Lh General, another Light Horse, and my initial selection of 10 Ps. After a bit of thought and playtesting I realised this was too powerful, and swapped two of the Ps for what I consider to be one of the worst troop types out there, Solid Auxilia. I threw the gauntlet down to anyone lucky enough to defend with this Agg. 0 army, and gave it a city to defend, which may or may not end up in the rolling difficult hills of the Greek countryside. So, after what I considered to be much deviousness and skulduggery, coupled with a 3 hour drive to Tarrington where I was figuratively rubbing my hands with glee, my first game was against Tony Green who had brought his Aitolian army. Granted, this was the Later Hoplite version, but still, what are the chances!! I used his army, with 4 Sp inc. the general, against my own. A tight and fun game governed by Psiloi battling it out on the difficult hill (Tony cleverly avoided placing the city by rolling a 5 and selecting a quarter that was already pretty busy), ultimately resulting in a 4-2 victory to me.
Second round, and I drew Martin Smith’s Frisians (see above) to play against half of the Johnson dynasty, Mark J, using Picts. Rough and plough governed the battle line match ups, neither of us wanting to waste double ranks where they wouldn’t be effective, and Mark started some very sneaky Lh flank manoeuvres which I had almost no counter for. My only chance was a charge into the pike with the Solid Warband, flukily managing to kill his General and multiple Pike units. 3G-0 to me.
The last round before lunch saw Craig Allen and myself squaring off, him with the Burmese and myself with the Carolingian Franks. Some poor deployment on my behalf meant I ideally needed to roll a 7 in the first round, but the 4 I rolled gave me just enough to uncluster my battle line and start to line my Knights up against Craig’s Blades and Auxilia, and my Ps against his nellies. Lady luck smiled on me, and I blagged a 4-0 victory. Oh how things were to turn!
In the throes of a post prandial slump I turned to face my nemesis, my bete noir, my arch enemy Richard Pulley on the top table. Often we fight, and often we draw, and so it was today! He was using Colin O’Shea’s superbly converted Chimu, whilst I had Craig Allen’s Galatians at my disposal. Much dancing around the centre ensued, and unfortunately we were timed out after a very exciting game. 3-2 to Richard. We both claim to have engineered this result, as neither wanted to re-inforce the ‘challenging’ status of the armies we were using. Yeah, right…
Penultimate round time, and I face the DBA avatar of the SoA Mr. Phil Steele. It should be noted that Phil had faced down a Lorry on the motorway earlier that morning and not blinked, so I didn’t fancy my chances. I faced the Chimu again, this time using Tarascans. Phil’s placement of the terrain was masterful, I chose the wrong side and had an oasis in the centre of my deployment zone, and proceeded to lose my general and 2 other elements, taking nothing in return. Those pesky Chimu!
Final round, and I could look forward to using my own army. Woohoo! I played Colin O’Shea, and if you’ve been following this rambling post you will realise that this meant I faced, once again, the perilous Peruvians, the champions of Chan Chan – the Chimu! Defending, I managed to avoid placing the city as I didn’t fancy defending that against Colin’s Blade General. A pre-emptive flank march with 5 of my Psiloi in my first turn put me in a good place, and it turned into a scrappy fight over a difficult hill on the left hand side of Colin’s deployment zone. Low combat factors gave us the usual unpredictable results, but ultimately it went my way, but only just at 4-3.
The Chimu eventually won the most challenging army trophy. I would have gone away with it, if it wasn't for those pesky Chimu (and apparently the Galatians, who pushed my Aitolian League army up to third from bottom I believe).
Thank you very much to Martin Myers for organising one of the turnkey events in the DBA tournament circuit, it was a wonderfully challenging and fun day!
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Post by attilathenun on Sept 13, 2018 11:22:38 GMT
No problem for me Bill.
Mark
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Post by attilathenun on Aug 8, 2018 20:12:07 GMT
2. Unless you are artillery, you must shoot at a target shooting you. Artillery in their own bound may always pick their target. Joe Collins Where is that stated Joe?
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Post by attilathenun on Oct 16, 2017 20:20:25 GMT
This Sunday I'm going to be heading down to Waterlooville, but I'll be playing Frostgrave. You're more than welcome to come along and see what else is on offer at the club, if you're interested - first night is always free. The Sunday after that is the DBA English Open in Portsmouth, so I might not be able to make it out to Waterlooville on the same day. The 5th of November might be another Frostgrave night, or it might not, I'm not in a position to decide these things! We could pencil in either the 5th (potentially) or the 12th of November for some DBA. How does that sound?
Mark
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Post by attilathenun on Oct 8, 2017 20:37:28 GMT
Hello! I'm in Waterlooville and work in Portsmouth, and am also keen to help others play the game. We had a tournament in Portsmouth last Saturday with 2 brand new players coming along and doing significantly better than me. It's a game of luck, unless you're winning, in which case it's a game of skill.
Tuesdays aren't great for me, but I sometimes go to Waterlooville Tabletop Gamers on a Sunday evening. We could easily get a game or 3 in in an evening, if you fancied it.
Mark
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Post by attilathenun on Sept 4, 2017 20:43:11 GMT
If you remove all of the gumpf from the sentence that isn't relevant to the situation you are thinking about, it reads "Light Horse destroyed....by.....Bows". The sentence doesn't discriminate between shooting and close combat. I have lost many to both!
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Post by attilathenun on Apr 4, 2017 20:37:58 GMT
Mark - just looking through the army lists and I notice that the Limigantes (334-359 AD) actually fall outside of the time period. Dunc Dunc, you are spot on! Originally I was thinking of going for 301-400 AD, but Bill and I agreed that going a century earlier would (a) reflect the fact that the Sarmatians had pretty much completed their decline by the early 300's, and (b) we hoped to get a better spread of armies. We missed that one in the re-shuffle. Apologies.
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Post by attilathenun on Mar 12, 2017 7:51:29 GMT
It's Skelton.
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Post by attilathenun on Mar 11, 2017 18:13:33 GMT
As we are now up to 16 reserved places with another eight showing keen interest, I have provisionally booked a second room at the Medway Centre in Bakewell so that there will be room at the inn for all if required. I will probably have to make a decision one way or the other in early April so please do let me know if you think it is likely you will be there on 10 June. Evening Simon, Good news! I've convinced my girlfriend to go for a "walking" weekend in the peaks that weekend. If she questions it, I'll say she misheard me when I said "wargaming" weekend. See you there, Mark
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Post by attilathenun on Mar 11, 2017 13:50:40 GMT
Hello all,
As a surprise for my girlfriend I would like to create her own Hordes of the Things "A Nightmare Before Christmas" themed army. Does anyone have any suggestions for suitable miniatures, on a 15mm scale?
Additionally, I've been looking for something that might do for a White Walker (or is it Wight Walker?) from the Game of Thrones series. The closest I've seen are Daemonscape's dark/chaos elves, but I don't think they really fit the bill.
Any suggestions or recommendations would be most welcome!!!
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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Post by attilathenun on Mar 11, 2017 13:45:13 GMT
As above, I have provisionally booked permission.
Mark
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