Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21

[garyp]

Are any of your infantry warband types Jeremy?

[goat major]

What size units have you organised them into?

A mix of unit sizes from 16 to 48 (so 160mm to 480mm frontage ) I’ll see what I can make up that equates to 240mm frontage

[Jeremy]

Are any of your infantry warband types Jeremy?

Yeah, some Gauls

[garyp]

Have you got enough to deploy them 4 deep?

[Essex Boy]

Both hoplites and pikemen benefit from the phalanx rule which makes them harder to break in combat. A pike phalanx gets a better bonus, which is why it's suggested pikes are deeper. Crudely it's a way of visualising the 'rank bonus'. Some spearmen don't get the bonus (my Mycenaean spears for example) so they deploy 2 deep. We can quite happily use 2 deep hoplites and give them the bonus anyway.

It seems to me that I'm going to like Hail Caesar and Gary's interpretation of depth. Hail to both.

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[Jeremy]

Have you got enough to deploy them 4 deep?

4 bases deep, so eight ranks deep? Yeah, should have

[Jeremy]

The rest are all Spearmen types, and Auxillia types

[garyp]

Have you got enough to deploy them 4 deep?

4 bases deep, so eight ranks deep? Yeah, should have

4 figures deep, so 2 bases. 48 man units.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I could do a 48 man warband

[grizzlymc]

Jeremy

You need to melt your Arthurians and your Saxons.

I was watching the archaeologist bit, the doable one. And she reckons that the Saxons were more immigrants than invaders. Did their farming, paid their taxes, intermingled and got on just fine. No Arthur, no barbarians in need of an ASBO, just new neghbours farming cows and shagging the odd sheep.