Mike Bennett
Centurion
Inscrit le: 11 Nov 2017 Messages: 489
Localisation: Carnforth, Lancashire, UK
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Posté le: Dim Sep 24, 2023 11:06 pm Sujet du message: Dismounts |
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A few lists have troop options listed as dismounted, e.g. as bowman or light foot bow. Curious why they are generally down as separate rows to their mounted brothers.
I might have expected then to be listed in the same row as the mounted, giving players the option to pay mounted cost, but use as mounted or on foot at their choice after deployment. |
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Hazelbark
Magister Militum
Inscrit le: 12 Nov 2014 Messages: 1537
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Posté le: Lun Sep 25, 2023 12:49 am Sujet du message: |
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A couple options.
1) not wanting to overplay dismounting game play which in general was not that common. Troops possibly were told to dismount to fight before they saw the other side deploy.
2) Generally El Kreator wants to stay point neutral and your plan would not hold to that.
3) In some cases they are legitimately troops without mounts. |
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daveallen
Tribun
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Inscrit le: 28 Jan 2016 Messages: 742
Localisation: Rugby & CLWC
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Posté le: Lun Nov 27, 2023 8:36 am Sujet du message: |
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That's three options ![Embarassed](images/smiles/icon_redface.gif) _________________ Putting the ink into incompetence |
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Mark G Fry
Signifer
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Inscrit le: 15 Juin 2017 Messages: 325
Localisation: Bristol, UK
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Posté le: Lun Nov 27, 2023 7:47 pm Sujet du message: |
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daveallen a écrit: | That's three options ![Embarassed](images/smiles/icon_redface.gif) |
Chapman: Trouble at mill.
Cleveland: Oh no - what kind of trouble?
Chapman: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.
Cleveland: Pardon?
Chapman: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.
Cleveland: I don't understand what you're saying.
Chapman: [slightly irritatedly and with exaggeratedly clear accent] One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treadle.
Cleveland: Well what on earth does that mean?
Chapman: *I* don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.
[JARRING CHORD]
[The door flies open and Cardinal Ximinez of Spain enters, flanked by two junior cardinals, Cardinal Biggles who has goggles pushed over his forehead & Cardinal Fang.
Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
[The Inquisition exits]
Chapman: I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.
[JARRING CHORD]
[The cardinals burst in]
Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
[To Cardinal Biggles] I can't say it - you'll have to say it.
Biggles: What?
Ximinez: You'll have to say the bit about 'Our chief weapons are ...'
Biggles: [rather horrified]: I couldn't do that...
[Ximinez bundles the cardinals outside again]
Chapman: I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.
[JARRING CHORD] ... etc. etc. etc. |
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