thanks Jacques.  I guess Sabir allies are popular!  I have enough figs for them for one army, but not enough to fight for both the Persians and the Romans 

thanks.  The sabir version looks fun.  I wonder if I have that many Huns.

What's the strategy for grouping the elephants as 4 and 2?

Thinking about gaming the other side of all this.  I'm thinking about Early Byzantines vs Sassanids.  I have a lot of figs for Sassanids, but would be building most of the Byzantines.  Anyone have a couple of lists at 10,000 points they'd like to share?  For both the Byzantines and Sassanids?

Hi,

Phil from Chicago here.  I haven't played a game in a few months.  It's a little bit sad as I just completed two 10,000 point historical armies in 28mm - Sassanids and Romans (ca. 3rd century) - and was looking forward to gaming with them.

Also, sadly, I'm between jobs, so can't get the Aventine Byzantines and a few more late Sassanids to build those as historical opponents....

Regards,
Phil

I'm not surprised.  Looking at Xiongnu and Han on paper, it doesn't look like a great matchup for the nomads.

They look great.  Have you had them out against the Xiongnu yet?

thanks for sharing.  I love the Han cavalry.....

Nice.  What does your list look like?

Quote from: nikgaukroger on August 13, 2019, 08:03:16 AM

Quote from: Simon Meg-Meister on August 12, 2019, 04:58:38 PM
Single base additions to TuGs revised
These do not work in practice so we are removing them and finding another way
1. English Longbows will be given a ME option to represent a high % of MAA intermingled.
2. Chinese types revert to simply two different ranks of troops.

Nikeforian menavltoi are another FWIW.

Might be useful if people could flag lists with similar single base additions. Think we have them all, but with so many lists ...

Viking berserkers?

Nice report.  So having played a few games, what's your assessment on the bolt-shooters?

I read these rules for the first time just the other day and had a couple of additional questions.  On this question I read the rules as 1 per card.  In future clarries it might be interesting to have more, fwiw.

My two questions though are:
- what does line 7 mean?  I think it's that when you put your generals down, you say which general owns the ambush card (like which general owns which UGs).  Is that correct?
- do you use a larger card when you are playing in 25mm?  what should its dimensions be?

I'm looking forward to it.  I'm bringing 28mm Sassanids, and Will is loaning me a 15mm Sassanid army for the rest of the tournament.

A local painted a gorgeous 28mm New Kingdom Egyptian army.  Lots of chariots look cool.  I think he had about 20 but it's been a long time since we've seen it out on the table.

I'm waiting for some tufts to finish off the basing (I rebased a bunch of stuff for this) and then I'll post up some pics in the eye candy forum.

Oh man, Simon's suit is the best!  Well done.  Hopefully he got some kind of trophy for that.

I'm interested in building this but am curious about what some of the troop types are actually supposed to be.  I've been doing some research online and not getting a lot of clarity beyond the chinese army troops (regulars, whether volunteer or standing army).  Any recommendations on good sources describing the army?

What are dependent state cavalry?  Are these chinese or surrounding peoples (steppe peoples perhaps)?

How about the horse archers?

Thanks for the detailed report.

I still have one question - this is a good analysis of when most of your army is composed of these.  I'm wondering about when you've got just one or two units.

And now I think of it one other question - it strikes me these are probably better in units of 6 than 4, but would like to hear from experience about that.