I'll keep paint them then Marc
NB: I would make the point that other than your Russians there was a distinct 'theme' to the armies - - that's a lot of TYW or 'floppy hat brigade' !

Are you going for pre-set terrain again Marc? It worked well last year well apart from that trouble with the tide coming in & out ;-) Themed is fine but TBF if you allow Swedes you'll get Swedes - & lots of em and lots of lookey-likey things purporting to be Swedes (IMHO) Open worked fine la...

Mike Shepherd & I had a great game against Alasdair & partner in our 1st game at Usk. Tartars v Italian City States (Milanese + Swiss allies). Yes - they trounced us 24-1 (or something like that) but we had our moments (we even scratched their paintwork with a single broken BG - "result...

Not sure if this is the right place to post this .... but here goes: Just looking at various army choices for the 28mm competition @ Farnborough in October and whilst looking at the Scots Royalist list (P75 of Wars of Religion list book) I noticed an oddity/mistake. If you look at the Scottish Foot ...

Sorry - I meant Blue X & Blue Y - not A&B - but you get the Idea I am sure! Blue Y had a deep Pike Keil fighting along side its Y6/Y3 flank & Blue X had another DMA BG fighting alongside it's X1/X4 flank - but neither of these units could form an overlap as there were gaps along the flan...

Outstanding - many thanks - the diagram captures the situation (almost*) exactly, and makes it all so much very clearer :D For clarity/posterity - it was not you who came up with the 'ruling' during the competition - & I feel that the 'ruling' was given in the "heat of battle" in what ...

Thanks - good to remember 'markers' not 'bases'.

Actually - not that far fetched Richard - Field Fortifications do affect enemy troop movement quite considerably - so wording that states that Portable Defenses are treated like FF might imply that enemy troops stop 1 MU away from PDs as they do with FF. It's also perfectly logical that troops carry...

Indeed - not that I 'mind' particularly - as I have a number of armies that use Rgmt Guns - but it's worth knowing (& being sure about)
Thanks

Actually - re-reading your reply Kevin ... what you say was in direct contradiction to the ruling we had in the game. As in the example above - the 4 base Samurai fought with it's 2 outer bases - one against the DMA & the other against the MF LB; and both of these fought back with only their bas...

Having re-read (& re-read again) the appropriate set of text in the book - personally I think that we have a very broad interpretation of the wording here (above). The section about the PD's is written in such a manner that it does not specifically state whether the movement aspect applies to en...

Blimey - so a BG of 6 bases of MF Musket, Bayonet, Bayonet (2 ranks deep) with a Regmt Gun gets 7 dice on Impact against 6 dice for another similar BG without the Regmt Gun. That is a powerful difference ... is that really the case as it is clear elsewhere that all Impact Dice must be equal - the on...

Ah yes - but the problem with the Samurai v Tudor game was that the Samurai (Armoured Warriors) were actually 4 bases wide, with the Tudor DMA & Longbow both 3 bases wide. The Samurai charged & hit the outer edge base of the Tudor DMA (at one end of the L) and the outer edge base of MF Longb...

Ah - I see - & there was me thinking that that only applied to the troops carrying the PDs! Again ... I must refrain from applying logic ... it's a set of gaming rules after all :-) Many thanks Kevin Aetius PS: so I can cart my chavel-de-frise (spanish riders) or spiked pavices etc around throug...

This one has come up a couple of times - once last night & once previously at Wallenstein last year. It's not an easy one to describe but here goes. 2 BGs (A & B) from the same side are positioned at right angles to each other - sort of 'L' shaped - both facing into the internal corner of th...

Sorry to resurrect this topic - but I was just wondering upon what kevinj has based his firm view that troops do not have to stop 1MU away from Portable Defences (PD)? The rules state that PD are treated like Field Fortifications (FF) in combat - for mounted troops So it seems logical that combat in...

Yup - I've had a look at both it & the German States list in T&T - neither has the appropriate 'feel' IMHO. The German States list only has 8 Reiter - surely that must be an error???? I can understand a proportionality concept, but even so. Also it's Landsknechts are unable to form BGs with ...

I was having a trawl through the Trade & Treachery book and suddenly realised that there is an obvious list omission ... where is the Lutheran Princes (Protestant German) 1540-1600 list (not exactly sure about dates - need a bit more reading ???) Now, I know it wont be a super army and it fought...

Thank Richard I'd hoped that as the restriction to Woods was a list based 'special' rule, that other compensatory aspect might be applied on a list based basis, :wink: But the special scenario rule idea sounds a good compromise - I was also thinking about some sort of 'Ford Ambush' rule as well, as ...

Opps ... that's a 12" diametre not radius LoL