I've been playing a lot of Alexander the Great vs. battles (Greeks, Thrace, Persians) and one thing that is very difficult to represent is the way that Alexander typically led from the right wing. He would entrust the left wing to his general Parmenion. If played that way, the left flank quickly ge...

Depends upon the foe, and that's true for almost all troop types. A major part of the strategy with Triumph is to decide where you are going to allocate your command points as the game evolves. Nobody ever has enough. This is often described as choosing where on the battlefield you are going to win,...

Wouldn't the list have an Artillery stand option seeing as the siege train was well known at the time. Thanks Triumph isn't a siege game -- artillery stands are only available for armies who show evidence of using it in field battles. Almost every army throughout the world who fought against castle...

If you mean stream rules, Yes. Rivers can be impassable and thus I feel it is necessary to detail what the river's conditions are. Right -- trying to fight across a river with moving water deeper than maybe 24", against armed resistance, would be a nightmare. I've forded creeks no deeper than that ...

I love those terrain cards, Markus. Beautiful, and effective!

Brummbär wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 12:05 pm

My Dwarves and High Elves are already done for Triumph!

Cool.

Brummbär wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 12:05 pm

For the battle cards: guess you are referring to cards which are "in the works" for the fantasy adaption, right?

Yup. Most of the battle cards are pretty solid, although the point values might still change with further testing.

If you've already decided to rebase, you have a lot of freedom. Just top of my head, consider this approximate makeup: Zombies: Horde, Fierce. 1.5 points each. Maybe 12 stands or more -- looks like one of your current zombie stands would make at least two Zombie Horde stands for Triumph. Skeleton Ar...

Nice! For wolves, or ghosts, or undead, or left-handed sticklebacks, the approach is the same: figure out how they fight, and put them in that bucket. Zombies -- Horde. Ponderous and cheap; if you want the feel of unending masses just deploy them in two lines (which you'll probably need to do anyway...

Greyhawk Grognard wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:27 pm

I'm wondering if the Pack Train and Herds battle card still requires that the camp be a square?

To reinforce what Rod responded -- where did you get that camps must be square? I've got a hundred camps or more, and none of them are squares. Many of them aren't even rectangles.

[Pilum functionality removed for simplicity] This is why I see it valid to rate a good portion of the Roman units as "elite". I appreciate that, but the reality of game design is much more simple. To the best of our understanding, troops are rated as Elite Foot based upon how they performed in batt...