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Post by felixs on Sept 20, 2017 21:24:42 GMT
I agree with Bob. It is one of the clearer parts of the rules.
But Tom is right, of course, that it is not so easy to piece all the information from different places in the rules together and to find out how 4Kn are meant to behave.
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Post by felixs on Sept 20, 2017 16:37:06 GMT
So you are saying that 4Kn suffer all of the effects appropriate for all KNIGHTS with the ADDITIONAL effect that they are recoiled by 3Kn as well? I interpret the rules that way. 4Kn also differ from 3Kn in that they do not pursue. That could be better or not so good, depending on the situation and tactical usage. |
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Post by felixs on Sept 19, 2017 5:39:12 GMT
Today at long last the final three Pk elements for my Scots Common are done. (...) I came within a whisker of finishing the last three 3Pk for the scrap built Welsh - maybe tonight  Then you would have 108 armies? Wow |
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Post by felixs on Sept 18, 2017 5:48:30 GMT
Finally finished some Aux,Bw and Ps for my Early Hu/ Chiang or Ti.😊 If you do not mind, pictures of the final army would be great. |
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Post by felixs on Sept 17, 2017 13:43:53 GMT
First you have to forget everything in the rules about distance measurement to the nearest mm. I'm using Kallistra hex tiles which are 100mm A/F, suits me because I game in several scales. Using the DBA 3 system of base widths and all my HOTT elements are on 60mm wide bases, conversion is pretty straightforward. E.g. move 3BW = 180mm/100mm = 1.8 hexes round it up = 2H. The rounding up or down bit is why precise measurement to the rules has to be thrown out the window. Position within the hex doesn't matter for shooting purposes as it's effectively the hex that's the target. Obviously not a system to everyone's taste, suits me as a solo player and I can get rid of rulers, measuring sticks, etc. Thank you. I still cannot imagine how things like overlaps, wheeling etc. are done. But the idea is intriguing. Always liked the idea of the Kallistra fantasy rules too. It is just that I do not want to begin collecting hex terrain tiles. |
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Post by felixs on Sept 17, 2017 13:41:27 GMT
I will most likely go along with the rules/approach that is most commonly used at UK tournaments. In that case: 100 paces = 1 inch for 15mm (40mm base width) scale. |
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Post by felixs on Sept 17, 2017 10:41:40 GMT
I'm even more of a heretic soloist, I've converted to hexes  How do you do this? |
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Post by felixs on Sept 16, 2017 16:01:31 GMT
Looks great. The bright colours really make it come to life.
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Post by felixs on Sept 16, 2017 12:10:02 GMT
Thank you for your advice.
As I said, your miniatures are little works of art.
For the moment, I do not enjoy painting enough to get into shading. That would more or less double my painting time. I rely on the wash to get some degree of shading.
Are the shield patterns on the crossbowmen hand painted? I would never be able to do that. Even crude designs look too crude if I paint them ^^ If I ever paint high medieval (which might be soon), I need to get some shield decals...
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Post by felixs on Sept 16, 2017 12:05:15 GMT
Not sure whether that is the kind of answer you are interested in (probably not), but I do not use these suggested rules. I would love HotT to be DBA-3-'ed, but apparently that is not going to happen in an official version. TomT has done a great job in blending these two rules sets though and his version is usable.
If you only want to change standard HotT to bas-width-movement, I guess you could just use only that part from Tom's rules version.
Personally, I have not played HotT since I began to play DBA 3 again. And I probably would rather field fantasy armies under the DBA 3 rules than to do a conversion. But that is just laziness. Tom's rules are great.
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Post by felixs on Sept 16, 2017 9:26:13 GMT
I very much enjoy looking at the figures you painted, so I should do the same. Here is a picture of my new Early Germans. (Advise very welcome). picload.org/view/dgddgica/dba_early_german.jpg.html(Would have liked to insert the picture directly, but this seems not to be possible). |
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Post by felixs on Sept 16, 2017 5:28:32 GMT
Robert, what versions of II/22 and II/28 are on offer? Cheers, You can see the make-up of the armies on his webpage, as in the link above. |
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Post by felixs on Sept 14, 2017 9:58:53 GMT
Thank you.
That is very helpful!
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Post by felixs on Sept 14, 2017 9:20:26 GMT
Yes, terminology is a bit of a problem. It is not possible to know from the Chinese texts whether they are referring to "chariots" or to "war wagons" (in our terminology). It is simply 車 ("che", you can also use the more archaic reading "ju") in most cases.
I am also not sure whether development would be so minor. I am rather saying that we simply cannot know from the sources that I am aware of. I have looked into most of the relevant Chinese works on Chinese military history and there is nothing that is particularly helpful.
Interestingly, using baggage wagons for field fortifications seems to go back much further than the Han. Records from the Chunqiu era (-722 to -481, give or take a few decades as you see fit) suggest that this was done. So the Han concept of war wagons might well be an extensions of that: Equipping baggage wagons (supply wagons) with some kind of fortifications materials and then using that for defense.
Sources are so scarce and unclear that I would suggest using your imagination.
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Post by felixs on Sept 14, 2017 9:12:43 GMT
By ‘desert bases’, do you mean the elements or the terrain features? I mean the elements. Sorry, that was unclear. |
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