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Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 2:01 am
by Paul
Tim Hall wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 12:27 am
tim.w wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 7:57 pm
Serious question as they are available to my force, can we field elephants?
Major Cormac McCaramac will be supporting the Last King of Kumbahyah Chief N'em Inem in a mixed force of tribal warriors and well drilled troops from the East Bongo Company a subsidiary of Terry's Chocolate of York.
All right, the puns are amusing, but you lost brownie points with the spelling. An elephant will cost you 10 points, with a crew of 3 and a mahout at 2 points extra. But I will have to work out some stats for it. No mumakil though, it must be of a realistic and proportionate size to 28mm figures.
Make it easy on yourself for stats and points where something could be a proxy for a "normal" unit? A single elephant could maybe be used as a proxy for a unit of irregular cavalry Lancers, giving them the extra punch when going forward, similarly Norms Camel Guns could work quite well as Irregular Mounted Infantry who are "Well Armed" (for the extra range) or you could always "rob" from the Dragon Rampant toolkit for the elephants?
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 7:36 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
I fear that we're getting dangerously close to someone prematurely splitting the atom.....
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 7:52 am
by tim.w
Paul wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 2:01 am
Tim Hall wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 12:27 am
tim.w wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 7:57 pm
Serious question as they are available to my force, can we field elephants?
Major Cormac McCaramac will be supporting the Last King of Kumbahyah Chief N'em Inem in a mixed force of tribal warriors and well drilled troops from the East Bongo Company a subsidiary of Terry's Chocolate of York.
All right, the puns are amusing, but you lost brownie points with the spelling. An elephant will cost you 10 points, with a crew of 3 and a mahout at 2 points extra. But I will have to work out some stats for it. No mumakil though, it must be of a realistic and proportionate size to 28mm figures.
Make it easy on yourself for stats and points where something could be a proxy for a "normal" unit? A single elephant could maybe be used as a proxy for a unit of irregular cavalry Lancers, giving them the extra punch when going forward, similarly Norms Camel Guns could work quite well as Irregular Mounted Infantry who are "Well Armed" (for the extra range) or you could always "rob" from the Dragon Rampant toolkit for the elephants?
Thats what I had in mind, maybe two heffalumps equals a tribal cavalry unit, depending whose driving it?
10pts would be too many to commit I think. I'm not desperate to field them but I've got them as a possible option.
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 10:51 am
by FreddBloggs
Hmmm if there are going to be that many elephants, how many points for Lady elephant in heat to disrupt them all
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 11:31 am
by Norman D. Landings
FLAAAAAAMING PEEEEGS!
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 12:59 pm
by Count Belisarius
All sorted
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 1:43 pm
by World2dave
Blunder rule: if they fail a movement activation your dim-witted handlers accidentally light them.
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 3:13 pm
by Tim Hall
Hmm, it didn't take long did it. I have devised a rule for weird weaponry you'll be pleased to know. The moment it is activated, whatever it is, it suffers a catastrophic and unexplained disaster.
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 3:17 pm
by goat major
So that explains the last 10 appearances of the Gateway cavalry
Re: The Ayton 2023 Logistics Thread.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 3:23 pm
by Norman D. Landings
So, give it to a clueless but enthusiastic Ghazi, tell him to charge the enemy and push the button in their midst.
Bit tasteless there, but whatever you say...