Post by Cromwell on Mar 12, 2022 9:46:50 GMT
I fight many battles and campaigns set in the WotR. I believe DBA handles these wars very well and I like the army lists.
However when reading up on the battles of that time in becomes pretty obvious that few of the battles were actually fought on large open spaces. most were around settlements and heavily farmed areas (due in part I believe from the requirement to be near supply sources and billeting areas. Fighting seemed to be taking place in fields, among hedges and on occasion such as St Albans street fighting.
For my last WotR batle I threw out the normal DBA system for placing terrain. I place about 4 hedged enclosures which interlinked, outside of these a couple of plough areas, a village comprising of a church, manor house and hovel and two wooded areas.
Deployment stayed the same. Plough was rough going regardless of first PiP roll. The hedged enclosures were classed as good going, however elements were reduced to 100 paces movement when crossing a hedge (except for Auxilia and skirmishers. Hedges had no impact upon combat and did not affect line of sight for shooting. The Built up area was treated as bad going for movement and combat.
The table looked good, very much like a rural English scene. The battle played very well, the hedges caused troops to slow which in turn exposed them to arrow storms.
Mounted troops were more limited in their usefulness.
I felt these changes really enhanced the WotR feel of the battle.
However when reading up on the battles of that time in becomes pretty obvious that few of the battles were actually fought on large open spaces. most were around settlements and heavily farmed areas (due in part I believe from the requirement to be near supply sources and billeting areas. Fighting seemed to be taking place in fields, among hedges and on occasion such as St Albans street fighting.
For my last WotR batle I threw out the normal DBA system for placing terrain. I place about 4 hedged enclosures which interlinked, outside of these a couple of plough areas, a village comprising of a church, manor house and hovel and two wooded areas.
Deployment stayed the same. Plough was rough going regardless of first PiP roll. The hedged enclosures were classed as good going, however elements were reduced to 100 paces movement when crossing a hedge (except for Auxilia and skirmishers. Hedges had no impact upon combat and did not affect line of sight for shooting. The Built up area was treated as bad going for movement and combat.
The table looked good, very much like a rural English scene. The battle played very well, the hedges caused troops to slow which in turn exposed them to arrow storms.
Mounted troops were more limited in their usefulness.
I felt these changes really enhanced the WotR feel of the battle.
