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Post by hodsopa on May 20, 2018 19:49:56 GMT
I am a bit of an addict of Peloponesian war games and have to admit this is the easiest playing and most satisfying there is. Still, I don't like solo games. Have you played Pericles and how do you compare them?
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Post by hodsopa on May 17, 2018 20:12:29 GMT
I'm reading N.A.M. Rodger's The Safeguard of the Sea. It is a history of British seapower up to 1649. Lots of insights on interrelationships between sea and land power. For example:"[Under] the Norman and Angevin kings... ships were no longer used to move troops rapidly, but supplies slowly... As a natural result the speed of advance of Norman armies was only a fraction of that of English or Danish armies two centuries before."
I can imagine an interesting 14th century campaign involving Scotland, England, Flanders and western France in which ships as well as land units would be represented.
I've recently played a bit of DBR, including a refight of Pinkie (1547) where the English have ships. The DBR ship rules could probably be back-applied in some form to DBA.
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Post by hodsopa on May 17, 2018 19:04:35 GMT
Please do Bill, the smellier the better
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Post by hodsopa on May 13, 2018 13:19:01 GMT
Sadly not me despite the lure of the camels.
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on May 7, 2018 19:41:50 GMT
Back to the generals, I have played a couple of Renaissance battles recently. I settled on DBR for the rules but picked up from Maximilian! the idea of roaming generals. An attached (non-space-consuming) general can *either* reduce by 1 PIP the cost of moving the group he is with *or* move himself separately from that group. I didn't use it for Flodden, when the leaders seemed pretty fixed to their units, but it worked well in game terms, on a bigger battlefield, for Pinkie. For example the English cavalry split, with the lancers defending the baggage and the light horse supporting the attack on the main Scottish lines. Lord Grey could decide which to lead.
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Apr 27, 2018 22:36:35 GMT
Feverishly swotting up the SCh rules and ready to go. The place I was supposed to stay in Newark turned out to have given my room to someone else. They found me somewhere nearby and gave me dinner which they wouldn't let me pay for. I think I've used up all my luck tonight!
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Mar 23, 2018 22:01:20 GMT
Can't make it this time - visit from first and only grandchild. Pity, the army choice looks fascinating.
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Dec 16, 2017 20:26:11 GMT
I'd never heard of Hordes of the Empire before. Sounds great. The links I tried don't work - is there one that is active so I can download the rules?
Paul H
PS I have been having a lot of fun with Congo
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Post by hodsopa on Dec 6, 2017 0:57:14 GMT
Sorry to have missed what seems like a great day. Congrats to Mark. This is probably not the right place to ask, but what is the date of the Welsh open?
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 21, 2017 21:13:33 GMT
I like armies that can invade as well as defend. I like them with lots of cavalry or camels (which can set up in the channels, close to the board edge). In case the opponents, defending, lay down lots of terrain, you need 3 or 4 infantry who don't mind that. I like these to be fast auxiliaries or war band, because these can mess with bows (my least favourite troop type) whereas psiloi cannot. Probably fast pike or blade would be even better for that, but I don't come across armies with these. Ideally I like a few heavy infantry to hold a flank.
A couple of north African armies fulfil some of these requirements quite well: the Early Moslems of North Africa (with some nice Sp as a core) and the Tuaregs (who, when they are the defender, drift their camels through dunes and oases in a way that tends to disconcert).
I am fond of the warband-heavy Welsh, because they were my first army. I like the pursuit, quick kills and double rank bonus that warband have.
And I have a guilty fondness for the Macedonians and their successors - guilty, because as a democrat I admire the Greek city states that Macedonia destroyed. But I like how the pikes roll forward, and you have to watch your flanks because they are 2 deep and the enemy is not, so the enemy is in a longer line.
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 9, 2017 19:22:07 GMT
Sounds great! I suspect, as they say in cricket, that I won't be troubling the WotR.
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 8, 2017 12:27:58 GMT
I will be there, Bill, and am looking forward to it.
The PAWS website says "initially players will use their own army". Do we use it through the whole competition?
What is the typical end time?
Yours,
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 5, 2017 21:07:05 GMT
No change is fine for me too. There seem to be more and more people at tournaments in England, we have a great set of rules here, lets let them build momentum.
Paul H
PS if there are to be changes, of course, I'd like to see a bit of speeding up for Cm, and relief for them, as well as Cv, from the phantom overlap.
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 4, 2017 21:53:36 GMT
Thanks Bill and all. I feel a bit guilty because with my Tuareg camels came the dunes and oases, which no-one else will venture into, and with that came a couple of draws... But as always the afternoon was a lot of fun, and I'm glad that a more skilful Tuareg army made it all the way to the final.
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Sept 24, 2017 20:05:45 GMT
Dear all, does anyone know where I might find maps and orders of battle for these two battles?
I have enjoyed fighting out points-based battles between Venetians, Uskoks and Ottomans using DBR, and would like to try out some real encounters.
Yours hopefully,
Paul H
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