The Pointy Stick thread

[FreddBloggs]

Ummm trojan, lack of swords is a slight surprise but no odder than no swords in a hoplite army, the other things are not around. Dendra armour should be heros only, and no evidence of cavalry in trojan or mycenaen armies of the time. Remember you are same time as hittite and nke.

Myrmidons could have been there though.

[Paul]

Paul, does it really matter how many men in EB’s units? He’s going to roll 1’s with every one of them...

nah differing numbers are fine especially with the random stats and elastic bases

[Etranger]

I’d always planned to/actually done add fantasy elements to my historical armies based around something like Hyboria. There’s a handy and quite detailed guide here:
https://hyboria.xoth.net/gazetteer/nations.htm

Given my chosen force is Egyptian I think I’m Shem-ish

To be opposed by anti-Shemites?

[FreddBloggs]

That is a Shem, everyone else is a Ham!

[levied troop]

I’d always planned to/actually done add fantasy elements to my historical armies based around something like Hyboria. There’s a handy and quite detailed guide here:
https://hyboria.xoth.net/gazetteer/nations.htm

Given my chosen force is Egyptian I think I’m Shem-ish

To be opposed by anti-Shemites?

I’m going to be iron, like a lion, in Zion.

[battleeditor]

For those wondering, I'm going to be backdating my map of Europia/Byzarbia by about 2000 years, so it will essentially resemble the world roughy 400BC-600AD, into which pretty much any number of mad combinations will fit. So as has been said above, by all means base your army on something historical so that you can use it in 'proper' historical games, but feel free to mix and match stuff from different armies for our 'Hyboria' style imagi-nations campaign, which is basically just an excuse for some entertaining and probably slightly weird duff-ups in a variety of terrain, from the frozen north to the swampy south, with lots of appropriately warm bits in between.

The precious treasures of Byzarbia will no doubt attract plenty of invasions from you lot, which is why I am recruiting hordes to repel all-comers. My progress, by my standards, is phenomenal and I have actually finished one unit!

[Jeremy]

Those look great Henry!

Elephants. I need elephants. And chariots.

[battleeditor]

Those look great Henry!

Elephants. I need elephants. And chariots.

Thanks Jeremy. I have elephants. And chariots. I fear that we may all have these. Now, elephants _riding_ chariots, that would be a thing...

[FreddBloggs]

Hmmmm temptation to do mongols and have an army just of 4 elephant palanquins....

Otherwise, elephants and chariots, go indian.

[Etranger]

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I’m going to be iron, like a lion, in Zion.

Then you'll be dy'on