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Post by Simon on Sept 30, 2019 21:51:48 GMT
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Post by Simon on Sept 27, 2019 21:28:01 GMT
Had a quick look and seems like a fair number of different forces available for DBA and Lart. Best start on a DBA force first. Perhaps the WW1 RN fleet could provide some NGS to a littoral army? Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 27, 2019 7:17:29 GMT
Bend the rules, bend the pikes!
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Post by Simon on Sept 19, 2019 14:25:12 GMT
I have now booked the Medway Centre in Bakewell for the GBnU HOTT tournament on Saturday 16 November.
So far, I have Mark Johnson, Baldie and Pete Duckworth down as attending. Please let me know if interested.
Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 17, 2019 19:41:28 GMT
I have just e-mailed all the participants with details - let me know if you are planning on coming and don't get the e-mail.
Regards,
Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 10, 2019 20:31:51 GMT
Just to be clear Stevie, is this dispensing with throwing the dice to see what sort of river it is? Also what happens to the +1 for defending a bank?
Cheers
Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 10, 2019 7:44:33 GMT
So many of us have followed the debate surrounding the rules on rivers and their "Going" for combat. At least everybody agrees about their "Going" for movement! So I am considering using this chart to determine the river "Going" for combat: Nature of the River (dice roll) Going surrounding the River Combat Going of elements within the River Paltry (dice 1-2) Good Good "Normal" (dice 3-4) Good Rough "Difficult" (dice 5-6) Good Bad
Paltry (dice 1-2) Rough Rough
"Normal" (dice 3-4) Rough Rough
"Difficult" (dice 5-6) Rough Bad
Paltry (dice 1-2) Bad Bad "Normal" (dice 3-4) Bad Bad "Difficult" (dice 5-6) Bad Bad
This uses concepts already in the rules: - the dice roll for the nature of the river - the going rules for the only other linear feature, "Roads"
It seems to use common sense, which we are told PB expects us to use with his rules. (paddy wrote about the actual width of rivers on the other post so really, they should be much thinner than the areas covered by our bases.) It removes the "limbo" going regarding Rivers in Combat. And finally, there should be no issues to simulate Issus. PB writes in his book on Alexander's campaigns that he considered the Issus river a minor obstacle only (in this table a Paltry River in Good Going).
Love to hear people's thoughts.
Cheers
JimI like this and had been thinking along the same lines. The river is good/rough/bad going overall according to the dice throw and uses the current rules for the crossing and having defensive banks etc. In addition, where a river crosses area terrain, at that point it is the same going as the terrian it is crossing. Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 5, 2019 17:59:15 GMT
Now up to 20 and room for more! Simon Powering on Simon 👍👍 Cheers, Now at 22.
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Post by Simon on Sept 5, 2019 13:00:44 GMT
Well Simon, if DBA infantry only represents some 600 fighters, then a 12 element force is only about 7,000 men (less when you take into account the fewer figures in Ps and many other elements). Even BBDBA, with three times as many elements, would only represent some 20,000 men. Is DBA a set of small scale skirmish rules, or is it an abstract simulation of large scale ancient armies, ' representing' some 20,000 to 40,000 men or more? Some Helpful Downloads can be found here: fanaticus-dba.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Reference_sheets_and_epitomes And here is the latest Jan 2019 FAQ: fanaticus-dba.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ_2019_1st_Quarter
Just saying what the rules are (I think). As someone once said - I didn't write the rules! Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 5, 2019 11:03:48 GMT
When is a river a Waterway? I always reckon that typical ancient / medieval battles were around 25,000 a side so a typical element is about 2000 men or a frontage of 400-600 men or approx 400 meters. This is a quarter of a mile!. So a river 1 BW wide or 400m wide is in the Danube / Rhein category i.e. in game terms it is a water way not a river. On this scale a more typical river 10-15m across (this is not a stream) would be represented by a line 1-2mm i.e. a thin blue line of string and not a 40mm wide blue ribbon. Rivers are linear terrain and should be lines, not areas. If we make linear terrain more linear then elements can’t be totally in them and so the question about what going they are disappears. An element crossing a river is merely partly in the terrain the river is crossing or partly in the river (that has no property of going - it is null and so can’t impact the element.). The only restriction is that the element is in a river and so can’t shoot - see page 10. Although the ground scale on P2 says a base width is 80 paces and the guide to historical refights on page 14 suggests infantry other than horde are 400 - 600 men? So a base width wide river is about 70 yards? Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 4, 2019 13:55:07 GMT
Now up to 20 and room for more!
Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 4, 2019 7:08:37 GMT
There may be more!
Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 3, 2019 18:48:55 GMT
I like Miniature Paints - especially the price!
Simon
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Post by Simon on Sept 3, 2019 15:33:35 GMT
I am pleased to say that really nice guy Gavin at Alternative Armies has donated some very good looking 15mm figure packs as prizes.
Also, we now have 17 players signed up. If you do want to come and haven't yet told me (see names above), do let me know as soon as possible. I currently have the large hall booked but if it looks like we don't have many more to sign up over the next week, I will move to the other room and cap numbers at 20.
Regards,
Simon
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Post by Simon on Aug 31, 2019 14:36:09 GMT
Perhaps we need to adopt the thinking of Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean when it comes to DBA! "The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”
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