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Post by timurilank on Dec 31, 2019 15:46:17 GMT
What a nice couple of battles. The way you write, I am often thinking these battles really happened! Neat to see the Romans setup in three lines for the first battle and the rationale behind it. I also like that you make a note at the end mentioning what happened historically. Thank you for your comments. I too enjoy the historical matches and look forward to completing the Norman/French collection. The Nikephorian Byzantine are on their way and plans are already being made for the campaigns in Southern Italy (950 – 1050 AD).
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Post by snowcat on Jan 1, 2020 11:42:59 GMT
The more I see your battles, the more I think you're playing DBA the best possible way.
Cheers
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Post by timurilank on Jan 1, 2020 20:45:04 GMT
The more I see your battles, the more I think you're playing DBA the best possible way. Cheers Snowcat, That is high praise, but there were others who experimented earlier with the increased number of elements within a single command. As you may see from earlier postings, the time required to complete a game is marginally increased, but the overall effect does improve battlefield deployment of troops and the flow of battle.
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Post by Berthier on Jan 4, 2020 11:01:34 GMT
What a nice couple of battles. The way you write, I am often thinking these battles really happened! Neat to see the Romans setup in three lines for the first battle and the rationale behind it. I also like that you make a note at the end mentioning what happened historically. Thank you for your comments. I too enjoy the historical matches and look forward to completing the Norman/French collection. The Nikephorian Byzantine are on their way and plans are already being made for the campaigns in Southern Italy (950 – 1050 AD). Southern Italy in the time of the Normans is my focus at the moment. Cannot wait to see what you do with your Byzantines.
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Post by timurilank on Jan 7, 2020 9:27:22 GMT
Consular Rome vs. the Iberians Rome’s victory over Carthage gave its senate time to reflect on its overseas policies.
The Romanization of Hispania would begin but little did they realise this would take nearly two centuries to complete. Battle report with photos. dbagora.blogspot.com/2020/01/consular-rome-vs-iberians.html
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Post by schmee on Jan 8, 2020 19:18:29 GMT
Hello Timurilank - I've really enjoyed reading your reports on these games with larger commands! Would you be willing to post some more exact details of the system you're using - I'd like to try them out with my Macedonians, Greeks, Persians & Indians etc.
(If you've already done this, either here or on your blog, and I just couldn't find it, apologies!)
Thanks!
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Post by timurilank on Jan 8, 2020 21:11:47 GMT
Hello Timurilank - I've really enjoyed reading your reports on these games with larger commands! Would you be willing to post some more exact details of the system you're using - I'd like to try them out with my Macedonians, Greeks, Persians & Indians etc. (If you've already done this, either here or on your blog, and I just couldn't find it, apologies!) Thanks! Schmee, Scroll down the Index to the section – Enlarging the Single Command (24 elements) to find previous postings. dbagora.blogspot.com/2012/08/index-storm-within-empire.html
The Introduction has the details you are looking for to experiment with. dbagora.blogspot.com/2019/10/enlarging-standard-command.html
Do let us know how you fare.
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Post by schmee on Jan 9, 2020 8:20:07 GMT
Great - thanks! Will do!
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Post by goragrad on Jan 10, 2020 1:17:55 GMT
Interesting battles.
A couple of question though - Would a Consular army in Iberia have Italian allies or more hastati?
Or are your allied AX locals in this case?
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Post by timurilank on Jan 10, 2020 8:08:11 GMT
Interesting battles. A couple of question though - Would a Consular army in Iberia have Italian allies or more hastati? Or are your allied AX locals in this case? Goragrad, A good question. In practice, the consular force would have an equal number of Roman citizens and Latine allies.
However, in Hispania that changed to as much as 50% more Latine to Roman citizens. At the blog and you will find a timeline with references to Latine allies accompanying the legions throughout Livy’s history of the campaigns in Hispania.
Local tribes were used for minor operations, but none are mentioned as participating in the major battles. This may indicate an unpredictable nature of the local tribes to be deemed untrusty worthy for longer campaigns.
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Post by goragrad on Jan 12, 2020 11:55:52 GMT
Interesting.
One wonders at the reason for raising more allied troops than Roman. Regardless it seems to bespeak a confidence in their loyalty to Rome.
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Post by timurilank on Jan 12, 2020 14:12:20 GMT
Interesting. One wonders at the reason for raising more allied troops than Roman. Regardless it seems to bespeak a confidence in their loyalty to Rome. During the major campaigns in Hispania, we read of hundreds of villages being destroyed and prisoners taken, which suggests to me, these were conducted by detachments from the main column. It is also during this period we first encounter the term ‘cohort’ to describe the grouping of maniples and velites and by using ‘allied’ troops to perform such operations would keep the legions available for siege work of the larger walled towns, such as Numantia.
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Post by vtsaogames on Jan 13, 2020 2:40:54 GMT
I went to download the campaign rules from the Wiki and didn't get a PDF, just some advertising links I didn't click on.
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Post by timurilank on Jan 13, 2020 7:54:12 GMT
I went to download the campaign rules from the Wiki and didn't get a PDF, just some advertising links I didn't click on. Canpaign rules?
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Post by vtsaogames on Jan 13, 2020 14:16:50 GMT
I went to download the campaign rules from the Wiki and didn't get a PDF, just some advertising links I didn't click on. Canpaign rules? These
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