DK,

Thanks for your reply. This certainly clarifies things.

Chris

Hello, Have you "heard" the one about the new Triumph! player who liked armies with lots of elephants? But seriously . . . Units with elephant screens move at the unit's movement rate or at the elephant's pace? For example, Light Foot with an elephant screen: do they move 5 MU or only 4 MU? Further,...

CHAERONEA: REVISITED & REVISED Frustrated by numerous attempts to draft a coherent, engaging, and interesting narrative about a recently completed solo wargame wherein a large army led by Hannibal Barca faced off against an equally large army commanded by Pyrrhus of Epirus, I decided to take a day o...

Thanks very much!

What took so long?

I shall study this and the indicated sections/diagrams. Have a Greek v Macedonian scenario in the works, and well, there will be hoplites and pike phalanxes aplenty.

Thanks again.

Chris

p.s. Deleted accidental double post.

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Rod, Thanks very much for wading through my "essay" and for offering additional remarks, explanations, and comments. Interesting that we both seem to have had the same reaction to the lack of markers. With more time and experience, I imagine that I might grow into Triumph! Time constraints and other...

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