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Post by martin on Mar 16, 2020 12:59:58 GMT
Mine are Naismith and are really nice! Lovely figs, if a bit teeny / genuine 15mm ?
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Post by martin on Mar 16, 2020 12:57:59 GMT
Congratulations to Mark, Richard and Pete, and many thanks to Paul and Tony for running the event so well.
Glad it was well attended despite the current flap. I thought dipping the figures in Dettol, when Tony wasn’t looking, before each game was a tad unnecessary, however. (You know who you are......).
Interesting and well presented scenarios.
I helped many people reach the top of the ladder this time- just to prove that all the luck does sometimes turn up in one go (Welsh) and disappears just as easily on another day (Northern)......
Cheers all.
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Post by martin on Mar 10, 2020 12:31:12 GMT
Don't forget to shade and highlight. The walls or the 2mm 😳😎
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Post by martin on Mar 9, 2020 17:02:41 GMT
Not specific to HoTT scenarios, but this blog has some interesting OHW variants - see tabs at the top of the blog. Simon .....got me baffled, Simon.....
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Post by martin on Mar 9, 2020 16:02:33 GMT
I'm a huge fan of Neil Thomas's One Hour Wargames book, not only for the rules, but for the 30 scenarios that he lists in the back. They are easily worth the price of the book. They are generic enough that I've started running them using HOTT rules. A couple of modifications that I've had to make: * No strongholds - that's an easy one to adjust to. * Different effects on sides, how to translate. Example: Scenario 29 - Shambolic Command - the idea is that the Blue commander is so inept, that out of 6 units, they can only activate/use two units to move/fight. I interpreted this as that for HOTT, the Blue commander would get no more than 2 PIPs. I didn't limit the combat to two units, if they were in contact, they would fight. * Victory conditions are usually based on objective and time. This has been a harder one. NT's rules are based on different movement rates, a battle of attrition once units come into contact. I think the number of turns for a victory condition is harder to stick to. I've not quite figured out how to translate that aspect to HOTT bounds or, perhaps, on AP loss. Example: With that same scenario 29, it's supposed to end after 15 turns for OHW. I didn't have a good feel for how long this would take for HOTT, so I just played it out till either Blue was shoved off the hill with no hope of retaking it, or Red would have lost 2/3ds of their force. * Different army sizes - Neil goes with 6 on 6 units, or 6 to 4 units, so this plays out to 24AP and 16AP sizes. Still a fun enough battle when that happens. * Terrain - I stick to the terrain as laid out in the scenario. * Reinforcements or Unit arrivals - I stick to the schedule as laid out in the scenario. I allow Hordes to be respawned. I haven't considered Gods or Dragons yet, as NT's scenarios are decidedly based on non-magical encounters. I might try it in the future, just to see how it works. Have you done this, with either NT's book or Grant's Scenarios book? How have you interpreted the rules and victory conditions for HOTT? Excellent idea! Yes, OHW is a superb book. I’ve used the scenarios for Bob Cordery’s Portable Wargame rules, and they work very well indeed. I haven’t tried them with Hott or DBA yet, but may well do, now you’ve suggested that 👍👍. Thanks for the prompt.
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Post by martin on Mar 9, 2020 12:25:32 GMT
Kitchen walls 😶 The glamour ..... 😶
Occasional 2mm in between (but only when I can find me glasses.....).
Must remember to change paintbrushes in between.....
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Post by martin on Mar 9, 2020 9:05:16 GMT
Paul and Tony
Would you be OK to do a quickie announcement on the day, and ask that all SoA members who play each other have their games submitted into the Society of Ancients Championship, please?
If so, would you be able to collate the results for Denis G. to submit?
I think around half the players are Society members, so it might provide a good haul of games.
(Meself, plus possibly.....Richard Pulley, Martin Myers, Simon Wilson, Denis Grey, Pete D., Baldie, Phil Steele, Stephen Finn, Mark Skelton. Anyone else on the list of players who’s a member of the SoA, maybe they’d highlight here?)
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Post by martin on Mar 9, 2020 8:58:16 GMT
Two Edged Sword (-Brethren)....fun to use, but a big hole in the army when they vaporize.
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Post by martin on Feb 27, 2020 18:42:20 GMT
2mm ECW....and my eyes are crossing. 😶
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Post by martin on Feb 26, 2020 22:46:31 GMT
I am planning to attend. I have something to return 😁 Shiny vessel, with a pair of handles on’t? 👍 Will Mr. Finn be joining you, and/or Patrick?
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Post by martin on Feb 26, 2020 22:44:43 GMT
Thanks Bill.
Martin
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Post by martin on Feb 26, 2020 17:16:46 GMT
Hi martin, I'm hoping to make this one, if its not too late to put my name down. Do you need a text to confirm, or is this post enough? Is it pay on the day? Thanks! Thanks for letting me know. Not too late at all - numbers are notoriously vague until 10 a.m on the day 😶. Always helps to have an idea of attendance, though, so I can get enough tables together. No need for a text, and yes, pay on the day. Is it Neil, of the Knights of St John? Martin
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Post by martin on Feb 25, 2020 15:13:03 GMT
Thanks Ivan
I’ll pass that on to Bill, and hopefully it will be included - the more the merrier.
Martin
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Post by martin on Feb 25, 2020 9:31:22 GMT
I plan to attend, Ivan.
Looks like a good theme, with a great deal of variety. Was it based on something like 550-450 BC armies in the near East?
** Would you consider it being included in the Society of Ancients UK DBA League, please? All that is needed is for it to be announced as such, and for Bill to know (I can tell him, if he doesn’t spot the thread) and for the final rankings to be sent to Bill ......(which I can do for you if necessary). **
Martin
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Post by martin on Feb 24, 2020 9:39:00 GMT
The decision on whether an army was littoral or not in DBA was originally taken based on the number of ship elements in the DBM army lists. If an army had many ships it might be considered littoral, if it had few it would not.
By the way, the lists were not just Mr Barker‘s work. I believe others such as Duncan Head were actively involved in composing the lists, and the allocation of topographies (I may need be corrected but I believe this is the case). In that case why were the Western Normans (Southern Italy) not granted Littorial status from 1061AD from the beginning of the invasion of Sicily up until the fall of Palermo propper in 1072AD?The Guiscards were performing amphibious operations ten years before they took Palermo and already had a sizeable fleet when the took Palermo city in 1071AD?The Scicilian list begins in 1072AD. The original DBM lists allowed them 0-3 ships from 1041AD. Not my decision, as mentioned, but one of a list creator for DBM-DBA conversions. No idea whether 0-3 ships is enough to trigger littoral in that list creator’s opinion, or of the threshold was eg 4/5/6/7/8/9 ships...you could try asking on one of the Groups.io DBM/DBMM, and see if Duncan Head eg is available for comment. As for the Normans, I would suggest that the Normans in Sicily and the Normans in NW Europe should have been different sub-lists in the first place, and their topographies could have been different. However, they’re not. This ‘whether an army should be littoral or not’ issue has been debated to death in the past, and I won’t be joining in the conversation. It’s not going to reach any conclusion....we’ll end up debating why the littoral ones shouldn’t be, too .....can of worms. Have fun all... 😶
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