Uhm...ok, in this way you "fix" the ranges to keep the 40mm base size. I think that half base size, as It Is now(20 mm), works well for pacto. At the beginning we were quite confused, but with playing it was fine enought. I think that half base (20mm) works very well for pacto expecially because you can play in a really small table: this Is the most important thing imho, as It helps also training new players, since pacto was aimed at that.

So up to 4 bases (or 6 for poors or pikes) ? And same rules of pacto or with some addiction?
It seems interesting!

Hello, i am playing Pacto with my Italian friend since january 2022, and i'm really Happy to see some changed. We enjoy the game and planning to step maximus, in the future. However, these are the things that we found less enjoyable:
- punishing dices: the changes about kabs seem interesting. Not sure that the choice about starting from green for poors Is good however. Main problem, imho, Is for average +
- Reading the rule set, we really miss some rules in Pacto, like the fall back for infantry, the countercharges, the slow effect and restraint from pursuing
- shove/shatters very very difficult to use
- elephants very bad (even after a perfect delivery, covered by skirmishers and going green+ against White, they are too squishy for a so expensive unit)

About above alfa/beta rules:
- the change to Commander block move doesn't seem important to me. We actually never had big issues about that, Also because we find that in pacto Is much more important to know what opponent Is doing Rather than sparing command tokens, and so we try to Have as many "activations" as possible, to move after the opponent. This strategy seems really strong, till now

I Hope these opinions Will help, we Will test the above " alfa/beta rules and come back to you

Thanks for pointing that! I must have missed it!:)

Hello, i'm a new player from Italy and i'm actually playing pacto (but looking at maximus). Recently i've been looking at Byzantine lists and found few strange things about Scutatoi profiles:
- in Nikephorian and late Nikephorian Both the profiles (the mixed units and the Ls unit) have Combat shy. Is It correct? While understanding a Combat shy for the mixed units equipped with bow, seems strange for the Ls unit.
- moreover: in the Later Thematic Byzantine, the same Ls Scutatoi unit appears without Combat shy. Again Is this correct?

Same things applies to thematic, Syrian, Maurikian Byzantine: all Spear Scutatoi without Combat shy