Art De La Guerre

Another couple of the friendly matches played this week: Armenians vs Classical Indiands, and Visigoths vs Samurai

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Simple amendment to the text, change "charged" to "attacked". Job done. Very Happy

Not a tournament match tonight but instead a historical matchup between the Sleeucids and Tigranes the Great's Armenians.

It was a interesting battle.

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And in tonight's second battle., the Tamils took ont he Carthaginians.

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At Durham Wargames Group we're running a tournament. I had my first match tonight. My Tamils took on Mal's Achaemenids.

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Hi all, last night we had a situation where a MC impact unit was in front contact with an enemy LH with javelins. It was then hit in the flank by another LH with javelins.

Looking on the QRS it ma ...

@Luddite - I admire your courage! Smile

Indeed!

It won us the Burton Doubles with our Tamils at BadCon this year.

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Um, yes.

In ADLG you don't really need to worry too much about flanks.

The the right army, and elite impetuous heavy swordsmen fit that particular bill, you'll win the fight up front before your flanks fold ...

Generally i agree with a more flexible "reasonable" approach, but its clearly stated they must be a rectangle (which is itself disconcertingly vague), so i think if the opponent challenges i ...

Am I correct in understanding that atlatls are simply light javelins with a 1UD shooting attack but not the "javelin" ability in melee?

Fields, Villages and Plantations must be rectangular in shape.

How much leeway does that have?

Is it possible, for example, to have an "L-shaped" field?

Rectangle: "a plane f ...

This weekend we had the priviledge of winning the Annual Badcon tournament at Burton.

Here's our list.

350pts,doubles, 4 commands.

Tamils
350pts / 45 units

Command 1
Competent commander ...

"can still get run down by knights if left unsupported in the open"

...which wouldn't fit with Wars of the Roses at all!

My understanding is that mounted troops were all but abandone ...

At the Battle of Edgecote (26 July 1469) Lord Pembroke had no archers, so clearly the archers and infantry were not integrated in the manner thast a "mixed" unit would suggest.

At Boswort ...