And, in melee, if everything lines up, you should be able to get two Standard units hitting a Large unit.

I’ll run a solo game to iron things out, then invite a few of my more patient pals for a few games before “releasing it to the general public.”

donald

I decided to buy the ‘Black Powder’ rules & possibly expand the ‘family’ across more eras of our gaming.

We do the Sudan & AZW. Our basing is for individual figures on movement trays & we don’t want to radically re-organise this.

Essentially

It is useful, though, to get opinions from experienced players. I think most wargames have a “critical mass” – a size where they work best.

I suspect that although our 3 divisions a side worked well, 4 would have given a bit more nuance? Allowing  more…[Read more]

So you can hardly call us experts. The game was with a Hittite army opposing a Mycenaean one. Bronze Age.

It went very well. We committed the heinous crime of counting skirmish & light units for purposes of break points.

This was because the opposing armies…[Read more]

I don’t think the ox wagons of the Sea Peoples to be any sort of APC. It is not impossible that they could be used as a relatively * slow-moving barrier – not unlike how the Goths used their wagons at…[Read more]

We’ve been using FoG for many years & I don’t want to be harsh but those rules suck the fun out of a game.

Hail Caesar seems to be very enjoyable indeed. Down the track, I’ll start with our Punic & Late Roman armies but for the moment – all things chariot.

donald

I’m currently working on my Mycenaeans & Sea Peoples. I have a couple of Sea Peoples’ ox carts. The obvious thing to do with these is to designate them as baggage but I was thinking of a more active role.Slow but…[Read more]