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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 26, 2024 20:52:06 GMT
menacusesecundus the link worked well (as Les1964 reported above). I do love a Blemmye army. One I do not possess but I fought one many times under DBA1, in 25mm. (Belonging to a now former SoA President, Phil Halewood. It had lots of shooting power and cavalry hitting power (as Kn, in DBA1, if my memory is working !!) And the photos are great as are the figures and the background / playing mat. Thanks for posting. CarlL Thank you carll. The mat is a cloth one from www.tinywargames.co.uk/
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 26, 2024 14:57:05 GMT
Just thinking in terms of consistency and completeness. We have a horse mounted version of pike and spear - the knight. We have a horse mounted version of blades - cavalry We have a horse mounted version of psiloi - light horse. We need a horse mounted version of auxilia and warband having their abilities to move through bad going - raider. It's also historically accurate as ghazis, hobelars, etc. were famous for moving through and striking from areas of rough terrain (deserts, mountains, bogs, forests, etc.) But did they move through them and then fight set piece battles elsewhere or did they fight in those areas? And, if the latter, was the battle field entirely desert, mountain, bog or forest - and therefore not a typical DBA board - or was it essentially good going with small patches of difficult stuff?
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 24, 2024 15:41:17 GMT
Thanks, Les1964. This may or may not show the Nubian General's element and the two Fast warband I painted last year.
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 24, 2024 10:58:27 GMT
I have no idea whether or not this will work. If it does, it should show (or at least link to) my latest army, II/55a Blemmye. flic.kr/p/2pzSVgDvery nice I have the exact same figures for this army in the ‘to do pile’ - was going to get rid of them but seeing how they paint up I’m tempted to keep them now. Thank you, Ken Gordon. I have described it elsewhere as an "accidental army". It wasn't one that I had ever considered getting until I discovered that a job lot of second hand figures I had bought included 16 Blemmye archers and 5 Blemmye cavalry which was about a third of the foot and almost half the mounted I would need for the army. (My thanks to martin for identifying them.) I'm pleased with how they've turned out and I'm just waiting until there is no risk of getting a 20mm resin Giant Tick as a free gift before I order the elephant figure to serve as the camp element.
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 24, 2024 9:13:53 GMT
Good luck chaps. Watch out for the Nabataeans. (The pronunciation can be pretty tricky.)
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 23, 2024 22:24:56 GMT
I have no idea whether or not this will work. If it does, it should show (or at least link to) my latest army, II/55a Blemmye. flic.kr/p/2pzSVgDYep it worked . I use postimages.org/ to post pictures on this forum . I tried using postimages, but they wouldn't let me play. Perhaps I'll try again over the weekend.
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 23, 2024 21:37:16 GMT
I have no idea whether or not this will work. If it does, it should show (or at least link to) my latest army, II/55a Blemmye. flic.kr/p/2pzSVgD
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 23, 2024 17:58:05 GMT
Jim - that would include almost any battle fought with Arab Ghazis in the first Islamic Jihad against the Byzantines and Sassanians. Irish hobelars where a valued addition to many medieval armies, especially during the 100 years war and War of the Roses. Moorish light horse and Spanish jinetes fought across the Spanish Reconquista. Numidian cavalry was standard part of Carthaginian and Roman armies. Macro question: DBA labels imply uniformity, but that was rarely the case. For example, elephant formations were almost always supported by accompanying light foot. Similarly, camelry units were also intermixed with light horse (Arab horses were the best in the world). So why not replace the camel designation with "raider"? Again, I think you are leaving out some of the detail dpd . How did the Ghazis fight when it came to set piece battles against the Byzntines and Sassanians? Successfully, obviously, but were they charging through the dunes/steep hills/thick forests in battle? Were hobelars really that widespread outside of Britain? And were they not largely replaced by mounted archers (Mtd-Bw in DBA)? Did the Moorish light horse and Spanish jinetes charge hell for leather through the mountains of Spain or did they stay mainly on the plain? Did the Numidian cavalry speed through the Alps and then sit and wait for the elephants to catch up or did they have the same difficulty as the rest of Hannibal's army? Similarly, I'm not quite sure what you are driving at with your macro question. Is it simply a change of name, so that 3 camel figures on a base are called "R", rather than Cm? Are you suggesting a mix of camel and horse figures on a base? (Which wouldn't. of course, require a change of name.) In short, what is it that you are trying to achieve?
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 22, 2024 22:07:08 GMT
It is difficult to comment on this suggestion in isolation. Do the current LH types which would become raiders keep their QK against Kn and El? What are the combat factors for the new type and do they - or at least some of them - get rear support? Crucially, are they penalized in close combat in Bad Going? (I assume not.)
My initial reaction is that raiding and plundering are different from the set piece battles of DBA. I think too that the new raider cavalry, treating the battle field as a bowling green, would unbalance the game.
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 18, 2024 13:16:50 GMT
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 17, 2024 13:20:25 GMT
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 11, 2024 8:07:25 GMT
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 10, 2024 21:32:34 GMT
...what means section 3? must be DBA or not??? And although many of us, myself included, still talk about Book I armies, Book II armies etc, the rules actually have them listed as Sections I - IV.
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 9, 2024 21:14:07 GMT
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Post by menacussecundus on Feb 7, 2024 8:29:14 GMT
If it is the one from years ago it is great, I remember thinking how easy would it be yo follow his footsteps in the current world? Lots of talk of the Devil Alexander. I do find it interesting that some great warrior leaders have solidly built up a vast empire built on glorious victories. Whilst other dictators have cruelly pillaged their way through their neighbour's inflicting genocide on all they meet. Not bad for 07:00 Even when the series was being made in the 1990s, it wasn't that easy. Michael Wood was "strongly advised" not to go to Iraq as some of his comments about, I think, the treatment of the Marsh Arabs had upset Saddam Hussein. He took the advice.
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