Immune to distant shooting under new shooting rule. Get yourself one!

I am free on Saturday and Sunday after noon, have to drive my son to the airport. I live in Crofton which is on route 50 just west of Annapolis. Want to come over and play ? That's the 20th and 21st of January.

Mike Guth

I would like to sign up for the remaining Hittite kingdom.

Mike Guth

I would like to be a Hittite or Mycenaen; I have armies for both; or Middle Assyrian and Mitanni as alternates. I better sign up for something before everything is gone. And I could still be a viceroy of Kush if no one else wants it.....

Shooting rules were one of the worst aspects of DBA, producing unrealistic maneuvering to get the corners of two or 3 shooters in range of an enemy target even when other targets were partly in the way or closer to the shooters. DBA rules never even clearly answered the basic question of what happen...

I would like to be the Viceroy of Kush

Mike

DK, I have no objection either way. They were my pikes that were getting hit at all angles, bravely holding the end of the line. The rule about not turning to face on contact just had this as an interesting an perhaps unanticipated consequence. Just seemed strange to the 4 of us when it happened. A ...

Let's try the half open pike diagram again..... Blade1 pikea^ pikeb^B xxxxxxL xxxxxxA xxxxxxD xxxxxxE xxxxxx2 The X's are place holders to make up for outlook's annoying habit of getting rid of spaces at the beginning of my diagrams. So blade 2 has hit supporting pike b, and only supporting pike b i...

Games last evening with 4 pointy things rule, armies with 4 or more pike. Saw a whole bunch of weird stuff which was difficult to solve using the rules. We had the pike sandwhich : BLADE1 pike^a pike^b BLADE2 Blade player's turn, conclude Blade 2 fights pike b at 5-2, pike b no longer provides suppo...

Playing as Swiss with an elite foot general. Presumably the most skilled halberdiers and two handed swordsmen fighting to break open holes in the enemy line. Swiss pike push back enemy. Great. Elite foot push back enemy. Great. Then catastrophe. Elite foot does not follow up the recoil. Swiss pike i...