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The order of battle for this first campaign game - the defence Kent was: Ancient British 16 x units of warrior hordes 3 x Gaisatai Fanatics 4 x skirmishers 3 x slingers 3 x light chariots 3 x light cavalry and 5 generals Imperial Rome 10 x Legionaries 3 x Auxilia archers 4 x auxilia spears 6 x Auxil...

We let the dice decide that Tony, James and Chris commanded the Romans and Tim and I the Dacians. The choice of table edge gave Tim and I the slightly more advantageous table edge with the steep slope of an 8 hex escarpment facing the Romans on our left. A scattering of small areas of woodland punct...

The same armies as in the previous game were pitted against each other at the club the following week. We swapped the commanders around and I was in charge of the Chinese this week with Tony and Tim commanding the Koreans. IMG_2571.JPG The terrain consisted primarily of wide open spaces with no hill...

Hi Bertie, Your idea to add the pilum hits to the hand-to-hand final factor unfortunately will not produce a balanced combat outcome. The pilum result must be applied to the target unit causing a recoil, disruption, flee, no effect etc. Only after this effect has been applied as directed by the comb...

Hi Bertie, The Roman Pilum has a 1 hex range and can therefore only be used on first hex to hex contact with an enemy unit. The 5+ 'shooting' value will be increased by A1 or A2 armour to 6+ and 7+ respectively. The pilum is a single use weapon that can be used once by any unit during a game on firs...

The 6 player game pitted a late Ming Chinese army against a Korean army of the Imjin war period. They both had a points value of 280 points so these were pretty large armies with plenty of units for the 3 players on each side to command. We let the roll of the dice decide which players were with whi...

Two identical and typical retinue armies pitted against each other. The dice decided which players went with which armies which gave Chris and Tim the Tudors and Tony and I the Lancastrians. In this battle of equals, only the terrain features could give an advantage to either side and therefore mano...

The French army with 6 mounted and 6 dismounted men-at-arms, 6 crossbows, 3 peasant hordes and 4 generals was pitted against an Ancient British army. The Brits had the usual host of warrior hordes, fanatics and slingers, but more importantly, 3 units of light chariots, 2 units of light cavalry and 2...

When a medieval army is pitted against a very good ancient army such as the Romans, in many respects this is a test of the Hordes and Heroes rule system. The French army was deliberately constructed as a sound historical example; 6 mounted men-at-arms; 6 dismounted men-at-arms, 6 units of crossbow e...

After the very closely drawn game the previous week, this game simply had to be re-fought. I suppose it could be thought as ‘unfinished business’ with both sides out for a decisive win! The terrain was far more open than in the previous game with a few small areas of woodland positioned away from th...