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Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:21 am
by garyp
Are any of your infantry warband types Jeremy?
Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:22 am
by goat major
garyp wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:13 am
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
Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:23 am
by Jeremy
garyp wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:21 am
Are any of your infantry warband types Jeremy?
Yeah, some Gauls
Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:23 am
by garyp
Have you got enough to deploy them 4 deep?
Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:27 am
by Essex Boy
garyp wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:09 am
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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Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:39 am
by Jeremy
garyp wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:23 am
Have you got enough to deploy them 4 deep?
4 bases deep, so eight ranks deep? Yeah, should have
Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:39 am
by Jeremy
The rest are all Spearmen types, and Auxillia types
Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:49 am
by garyp
Jeremy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:39 am
garyp wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:23 am
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.
Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:55 am
by Jeremy
Yeah, I could do a 48 man warband
Re: Pointy Sticks Ayton Nov ‘21
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:54 am
by 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.