Quote from: LawrenceG on June 08, 2025, 10:19:24 AMSo bases shoot in the direction they are facing and with as many ranks as are facing in that direction?

That's what I understood from Richard's reply, that and that he doesn't like Orbs!

Thanks. That helps a lot.

If a Dart armed Legionary TUG in Orb formation (2 bases wide and 3 bases deep) is being charged what defensive shooting dice would it use for each of its four sides? The front and rear would seem to be 2 blacks each but what about the sides would they get 1 Black or none?

Would this change if the TUG was 2 bases wide and 4 bases deep? Would that be 2 blacks to each of the 4 sides?

Thank you

Can someone help I was looking at list 3209 and saw the note stating that Viking Raiders must always invade. The wording is as follows:

    "Raiders must always be the invader (unless fighting another that must invade!)."

The same note also seems to suggest that forces taken from the list must be Raiders with the following wording:

  "A Viking army must either be a raider (any date), in England (from 867 to 927 and 937 to 954 CE), in Ireland (from 853 to 900 CE), or in Normandy (from 911 to 986 CE)."

There does not appear to be, in the above wording, an option for a Viking force not to be a raider and therefore must always invade.

However in the troop notes right at the top of the list it says the following

"This list either represents a more mobile raiding force or a steadier invading army."

This appears to allow for a non raider force. Which is it please?

The figure in brackets is the cost per base of the upgrade. The same upgrade (or occasional downgrade - combat shy for instance) has a different cost depending on the type troop getting the additional characteristic - drilled/formed/tribal or poor/average/superior/exception for example

You can enter Campaign now. I entered and paid yesterday.

Interesting - I was redirected to a page after I had bought a ticket similar to the one you have here and that definitely said 8000 pts and Magma

A quick heads up - the Roll Call page on the BHGS site has the comp as 8000 pts and calls Magna 'Magma'

Do we know how much the entry fee is going to be yet. 'The Wanderers' will be riding again!

List 4603 allows a bolt shooter base to be added to some infantry TUGs which is defined in the notes. So for the Guard unit the normal TUG can be 6 or 8 bases and then you can add a bolt shooter to make a TUG either 7 or 9 bases. However the Militia units which also can be in TUGs of 6 or 8 bases the attached note says you can add a bolt shooter base to make TUGs of 5 bases. This doesn't look quite right. Is that what was intended?

That clears it up. Thank you.

Help please. I'm obviously missing something but the Maximus version of the Western Han list (4211) gives the points for a base of Conscript Heavy cavalry ( Cavalry, Formed Loose, Average, Unprotected, Experienced Crossbow, Mounted Polearm, Shoot & Charge) as 117 pts. When I put that into the List builder it shows as 113 pts. If you upgrade these to 'protected' the list shows the new points cost as 158pts but again in the list builder it shows as 154pts.

I can't see where I've gone wrong.

Thanks. I thought that was the most likely explanation but had a slight doubt. So to get one file firing with a base white dice you would need to upgrade 2 of the 4 bases in that file.

The Maximilian Imperial list (7108) allows up to 3 skirmishing hand gunners to be incorporated into a Landsknecht pike keil. I'm not clear from the note how this works. Does each base in a file (so 4) get upgraded for each handgunner that is incorporated or does only one base in the file get upgraded?