What are people buying?

[Jeremy]

I have a 15% discount from Footsore and am trying to find a reason why I shouldn’t buy Dark Ages Irish

[grizzlymc]

Is it possible that in the infinity of universe, there could be a single one in which resides a reason why you shouldn't buy Dark Age Irish?

This is not just a purchasing decision; it is a metaphysical question on which depends the very fabric of space time.

[goat major]

since its now 9 minutes since you made this post I assume you have now ordered them ?

[Jeremy]

Of course it is! If it was as simple as hitting the PayPal button it would have been done last night!

[Jeremy]

since its now 9 minutes since you made this post I assume you have now ordered them ?

not yet

[Jeremy]

Fortunately the work fire wall blocks their site so I’m safe till tonight

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

One aspect of shooting does seem a bit odd. The hit roll is modified by the target's combat skill as well as the firing unit's skill. This means that it's easier to shoot the rabble. It may work out in a game.

Doesn't CoC have a similar view? I think it does it by making it harder to kill elites, but same destination. Not sure if it was true of this era, but in later times units might post someone to, for example, warn them of a ball coming their way and they could all duck or scatter. Or was it duck and cover.....?

As the figure scale is one figure = 1 man the artillery section looks a bit over the top. Small companies are unlikely to drag big guns around. Maybe it was different in the 30 Years War. It does give you the chance to devise scenarios based on capturing them. Don't expect them to fire often though.

Does it expect you to tailor your gun calibre(s) to the size of your force? A couple of "light" (the term is obviously relative in the context of the TYW/ECW) guns accompanying a company would not be out of order, I would have thought; a couple of "Mons Megs" would probably make your opponent's eyebrows hit the ceiling - come to think of it, if you pulled a stunt like that your own men would probably shot you!

[goat major]

One aspect of shooting does seem a bit odd. The hit roll is modified by the target's combat skill as well as the firing unit's skill. This means that it's easier to shoot the rabble. It may work out in a game.

Doesn't CoC have a similar view? I think it does it by making it harder to kill elites, but same destination. Not sure if it was true of this era, but in later times units might post someone to, for example, warn them of a ball coming their way and they could all duck or scatter. Or was it duck and cover.....?

Yep under the concept that a WW2 veteran by definition is someone who has learned when to keep their head down. Like you I'm a bit unsure on whether it fully makes sense when operating in formed bodies. or mounted on horses etc.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

It is a bit more difficult when facing fire from other infantry; artillery, well, you can always step to one side when you see summat coomin' attya, or lie down until the fuse has burnt down. Maybe it's to represent the collateral losses that tend to be more obvious in lesser units

"Just takin' poor old Jenkins here to the barber.....errr.....butcher.....errr.....suhjin, that's it, suhjin! Already dead? No, sir, he's just pining for the fjords!"

[Jeremy]

In formed bodies is it not perhaps also combining a bit of morale that veterans might stick around with ‘flesh wounds’ whilst greener troops fall down or rush to the back?