Topic: Armies too large

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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by TH - The Hunt » Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:39 pm

Archers have 2 movement points, so I was imagining fast-moving 'skirmish' armies would have archers, irregulars, or mounted units, and be effective against weak positions and levies, but vulnerable to other cavalry or defensive positions.

Whew, that's a lot of units.

Bats? Huh.
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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by DM Juan » Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:02 pm

I assume they are all from various source books. Must have had a Bloodskull Bat unit, that - or Leicester Birthright (1) the bloodskull player made up some units, heh.

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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by SG - Sigrun Godefroy » Sat Mar 30, 2019 11:10 pm

Maybe a supply train method would wkrk. Striking deep into enemy teritory is god but if youre cut off you take penalties or something like that. So makes deep strikes a very risky manouver with high pay off for catching people off gaurd
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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by JB - Jontinius Bruin » Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:25 am

Bats come from the Brecht book I think, they are the unique unit of the Vampire's realm.

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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by DK - Duergan King » Sun Mar 31, 2019 4:59 am

BK - Borje Kolming wrote:
Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:25 am
Bats come from the Brecht book I think, they are the unique unit of the Vampire's realm.
They were in a few of the books including the vampires realm and some of the goblin realms if I remember correctly. Without looking it up was one of them urga zai with a bats unit?

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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by CI - Charrek Ironfist » Mon Apr 01, 2019 8:58 am

NS - Nehid Sehir wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:28 pm
I think that works best if each turn includes all four seasons.
We had this in one of the games.

Winter was for diplomacy right?
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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by DM Juan » Mon Apr 01, 2019 9:17 am

Yeah, that is correct. Diplomacy and/or 'Main Adventure'

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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by CI - Charrek Ironfist » Mon Apr 01, 2019 9:35 am

That way going on main adventure didn't really cost you anything.
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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by DM Juan » Mon Apr 01, 2019 9:43 am

Yeah, which encouraged going.

Debating going back to that kind of model, and boosting turns to multiple years, so getting older is even more pronounced. Poor Goblins/Gnolls!

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Re: Topic: Armies too large

Post by CI - Charrek Ironfist » Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:20 am

having winter as a full year turn, with dramatic penalties on actions and income is also a nice "slow things down" mechanism.
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