Art De La Guerre

At least in the case of Samurai I think this is a bit of the "rule of cool." Everyone has seen Kurosawa films (which tend to be in the 16th Century vein) and the sashimono banners, etc. Th ...

Two items

-I think this could be an interesting option. It is at least a plausible interpretation of later Roman troops. It shouldn't include impact, I am agnostic on middle support - without mis ...

Maybe's aye and maybe's no, I honest don't see the attraction Smile

When playing tournament style ancients a key skill is to get better value from your troops and army design. So if you think there ...

With only a couple of exceptions I generally feel the points costs in this game are correct and internally consistent. MC Bow are not an exception. I see vastly more MC Bow on the table than HC Impet ...

I think it is a reminder you can do a spontaneous charge in this case and avoid the negative combat modifier.

2. I believe.

When I last poked around with Pyrrhus this is what I went with (and a fortified camp)

Strategist
2 Greek horsemen Light cavalry javelin ----------
2 Elephants Elephant ----------
2 Brutti ...

Really the key here is

A) Do something that looks nice
B) Do something that makes it clear what your troops actually are

In general for LMI/MI I do a variety of things 6-8 figures per base (ev ...

Don't have my rules with me, but I believe nothing is removed until all combats are resolved. So only once per turn.

I generally try to create options for visually differentiating units in the army.

So as KevinD noted I might use armored horses for elite units. Further...I might do something like:

- 4 stands ...

This is why tournaments need both dates and specific restrictions (e.g. armies before 1330AD and no heavy knights or foot knights).

As long as the overall end result is kinda right therefore, I’d be tempted to ignore the “pike means very long pointy stick” thing and rationalise it as “they are a unique edge case where th ...

Thank you Dan.

I add armour to my elephants, don't find the elephants vulnerable in melee without armour?

Elephants really need to win impact and armour doesn't help with that. That extra point ...

I commend the variety of armies present, I don't think there is a single repeat!

You can upgrade two of them. Those two are "Bactrian" cavalry. The Bactrian bit is just explaining why these cavalry get to be elite.