Art De La Guerre

Mongols dismounted to fight Burmese. I think Marco Polo records this.

“This is two fold. To defeat table sitting and to disrupt the excessive igo-ugo.” I don’t understand what you mean here, Dan.

“I'd say whether the third rider is a permanent crewman or a temporarily mounted infantryman doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the tactical usage of the Hittite chariots anyway.”

I agree.
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I didn’t think LI are allowed to displace units to make room for themselves when interpenetrating. They can advance if they partially reach the other side of a unit, otherwise they don’t make the inte ...

Mark, I think the problem is actually that initial forward attacks are too effective in ADLG (and other ancients rules). Historically, more sophisticated armies often where possible deployed in multip ...

Thanks Dan, interesting!

I do agree it should move to the Army List sub forum.

Thanks for posting this, Mark.

A good point about distinguishing between mythological and historical carvings.

Should the tribal troops be an ally or were they led by Khmer generals or well-int ...

Interesting. Thanks for listing this, lionelrus.

I think this is better as I don’t really think the three man Hittite chariots was necessarily standard so it allows for them to be fielded as light ...

I’d like some guidance about where to draw the line. Clearly the terrain piece I outlined above is abusive and should not be allowed.

But what about less extreme convex shapes such as a kidney-sha ...

Hmmm…..I had read the 1st and 3rd bullets (p 39, right side) as saying light troops do not push friends to make room but instead make the minimum additional move to clear the unit they end up on top o ...

@Kevin - so your "concern" springs out of a piece of terrain used in a game on another continent, that you saw in a Facebook post, that never actually affected you, but you think theoretical ...

Yes, I think it did comply with the rules.

For an extreme example, imagine a woods which is generally a 6 UD radius circle, but on has many narrow (less than 1 UD for example) insertions that are ...

Yes. I don’t think it was intentional on my opponent’s part but that’s the way it worked out.

But having now seen it (and hence not being able to unsee it) the question at hand is can I do this a ...

Are concave terrain features legitimate?

They can make it particularly difficult to ambush troops who want to exit the terrain in as the ambush marker needs to be deep within the terrain feature i ...

Depending on the answer it could make deploying roads against impetuous armies a viable (if not particularly historically accurate) tactic.