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Post by macbeth on May 15, 2024 1:25:22 GMT
I am now on Alison Weir's "Isabella She Wolf of France, Queen of England" about Edward II's wife Cheers David is this book historical fiction or historical fact? Cheers, Hi Greg, this is historical fact - all going well I should be finished it by the time you get down here for CC and I can lend it to you then Cheers
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Post by macbeth on May 14, 2024 4:16:49 GMT
I finished "Blood Ransom" yesterday and then picked up the Osprey book "The Chaco War: South America's Greatest Modern Conflict" which I finished today
I am now on Alison Weir's "Isabella She Wolf of France, Queen of England" about Edward II's wife
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on May 13, 2024 0:02:59 GMT
Something similar came up at Briscon a couple of weekends ago. We went with option 2
I was called to check in on the combat result and discovered that because the rear element was not in a column with the element in combat, it was not destroyed.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on May 12, 2024 23:11:31 GMT
Over Sunday I managed to complete 2x3Bd and 1xPs for my new Sea Peoples army.
cheers
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Post by macbeth on May 12, 2024 0:26:52 GMT
If I include verbal mentions then Collision Course IX has hit 10 entries
Still room for many more
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on May 11, 2024 2:51:23 GMT
I finished "The Wall" - a pretty good read and am now almost a hundred pages into "Blood Ransom" by John Boyle a book about the Somali Pirates.
This is a nice, easy read that seems to present a balanced narrative.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on May 7, 2024 4:29:35 GMT
I'm going to quickly chime in with bragging rights - I won the Bronze Age Battles with I/7b Early Libyans (with Sea People Allies) Not bad for a primarily 3Ax/Ps army on Agr 4 5 wins and a 3-4 loss put me over the line by a point. I'll leave it to Chris Humphreys to put up the full results and post my reports and photos on the book of face --> I was successful on day 2 with the Ming Chinese but not as spectacularly so - when I faced Charmaine Benfield and the wall of Maori Fast Blade it was an epic fail Cheers Well done David. Much like the Sung from long ago, the Ming have joined the ranks of the Bd speedbumps 😉. Cheers, And specifically speed bumps for THAT Maori army - now both members of the family have walked over my missile inclined force with Jadestone clubs Cheers
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Post by macbeth on May 7, 2024 0:39:29 GMT
I'm going to quickly chime in with bragging rights - I won the Bronze Age Battles with I/7b Early Libyans (with Sea People Allies) Not bad for a primarily 3Ax/Ps army on Agr 4 5 wins and a 3-4 loss put me over the line by a point. I'll leave it to Chris Humphreys to put up the full results and post my reports and photos on the book of face --> I was successful on day 2 with the Ming Chinese but not as spectacularly so - when I faced Charmaine Benfield and the wall of Maori Fast Blade it was an epic fail Cheers
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Post by macbeth on May 6, 2024 23:27:57 GMT
After finishing "The Rise of the Tang Dynasty" I then picked up "The Baby Boom" by P. J. O'Rourke and polished that off in the airport lounge on Friday before flying to Brisbane for Briscon .
I am now just shy of halfway through "The Wall" by Adrian Goldsworthy - the third book in his "City of Victory" saga and the sixth featuring Flavius Ferrox - a great read thus far
cheers
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Post by macbeth on Apr 29, 2024 1:25:09 GMT
I finished off "The First and Second Italian Wars" on Thursday and then picked up another of Julian Romane's books "Rise of the Tang Dynasty"
I was able to power through this over the weekend and am on the cusp of finishing it.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Apr 29, 2024 1:19:12 GMT
After pushing out the first reminder the entries have started to trickle in
At this point we have 5 players locked in for Collision Course
I'll be aggressively recruiting over the next couple of weeks.
cheers
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Post by macbeth on Apr 29, 2024 1:17:09 GMT
I was out of the house much of the last weekend but I finished off another HCh for the Kyrenean Greeks
I am perilously close to completing more Sea Peoples and the last element of the Palaialogan Byzantines but had to call a halt before the final brush strokes.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Apr 21, 2024 12:32:55 GMT
Several distractions this weekend but today I managed to finish
2xSp and 1xPs for the Kyrenean Greeks
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Apr 21, 2024 12:31:13 GMT
Last Sunday we continued our DBA Campaign Succession Planning - there were a couple of missing players but a few proxy players were there to pick up the slack and we managed four epic battles.
Autumn Egypt sends Persia an invitation to the Philo-Ptolemaic games and in doing so negates their declaration of war.
Bactria is given free passage through Persian territory to attack Syria. The battle of Emesa is an overwhelming victory for the Bactrian forces when they cut down a third of the Syrian defenders including the commander but suffer no appreciable losses.
The Persian forces breach the walls of Mazaka capturing the Kappadokian treasury, forcing the Kappadokians to submit as vassals to the mighty Selucid Empire.
The Peloponnese force turn on their erstwhile ally and attack Macedon. The Macedonians prepare to fight and are supported by Epirus. The battle of Larisa is a hard-fought affair, initially the defenders gained the upper hand with the timely arrival of the Epirot contingent but the Peloponnese force rallied and managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
At the end of 316 BC the prestige table stands at Macedon – 17.0 Persia – 10.6 Peloponnese – 10.0 Rhodes – 8.0 Bactria – 6.4 Free Greece – 5.1 Thrace – 3.8 Kappadokia – 3.2 Epirus – 2.7 Egypt – 2.0 Syria – 1.1
315BC
In North Africa new nations coalesce and prepare to strut the world stage Cyrenaica – Nick Rodgers I/56a Kyrenean Greek Libya – David Lonsdale I/7d Early Libyan
Spring Egypt attempts to regain its lost territory, with support from Cyrenaica. The battle of Memphis sees the Egyptian force stumble onto prepared Rhodian positions within the woods and marshes of the Nile Delta. Badly beaten the Egyptians withdraw after inflicting minor losses on the Rhodians.
Macedon likewise attempts to recover their lost territory and attacks Peloponnese with support from Thrace. The battle of Larisa is an overwhelming victory for the Peloponnese force who crash though the Macedonian line and kill the commander. A Thracian contingent that offered aid to Macedon fails to arrive.
Cheers
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Post by macbeth on Apr 17, 2024 1:50:07 GMT
Greetings Tom,
The basis for my campaigns is the set of Campaign rules in the back of DBA2.2
That covers the movement, battles, and sieges
The sieges were played out as per those rules - the besieger took the city if they rolled a 5 or 6 - otherwise they lost 1 element Each season of siege the chance to take the city increased by 1 If an army was present inside the city it reduced the chance of capture by 1 --> but if the city falls the defending army is wiped out.
I have added one modification to this - if the besieger scores a 1 on their roll then instead of losig 1 element they lose one dice worth to a maximum number of 1+ the number of defending elments (ie if there afre 3 elements inside the city then the maximum loss would be 4)
Prestige was awarded in the following ways Battle - 1 point per element killed over and above losses. 2 points for killing a general 2 points for taking a camp or city
Battle prestige is adjusted by the relative strengths of the opposing sides - each side is rated according to my rating system (see the Magister Militum Per Capitoline Territorialis thread in the Tournaments section) - the prestige is multiplied by opponents rating/own rating. Allied contingents contribute to the rating if they Arrive on the field and either get within 1BW of the enemy main protagonist or shoot or are shot at.
Bonus prestige At the end of each year 1 point per unused recruitment slot - eg if you have three cities (the equivalent of four recruitment slots (one per city plus an extra slot for the capital) and only 2 losses you would get 2 bonus points. 1 point per vassal
At the end of the campaign 3 points per city directly controlled. 2 points per city controlled by a vassal.
I allowed allies a fair amount of leeway but they were not allowed to backstab on the battlefield.
I created a set of 'goodie cards' that convey an advantage (such as safe travel over oceans, +1 PIP, and so on). Each player gets a card and the most obviously disadvantaged player gets a second card.
Note that for the current campaign we have modified the prestige system to encourage more battlefield participation and less defensive holding up.
Cheers
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