Too Fat Lardies

Corrected sheet out now. Same page as before.

For the Hellenistic era they might be something like: Inferior Warriors, 8 men Light Armour. Bows Step Out 1 Darken the Skies (1), Flexible, Poor Drill, Supra Numerum so able to skirmish, be potentially excellent as shooting and, while a bit crap in combat, better than other skirmish troops. That's ...

Academia (and also JSTOR, etc) are good for finding recent articles. The Quesada articles on academia are excellent.

I've 'reported' your post as a way of bringing it to the attention of the administrators who will doubtless be sorry to see you go but happy enough to erase your relevant data.

As John says, The Complete Roman Army is a great starting point, as is The Roman Army at War by Goldsworthy which tends to annoy traditionalists very much but follows, so far as is possible with the evidence, the principles of 'tactical snippetting' to form an idea of how things actually happened in...

Hannibal was reinforced, and as I recall that included more elephants, while he was bogged down in Italy.

And of course once back in Africa, he had access again.

The Milice Canadienne were essentially Skirmish Troops (in SP terms). However, on occasion, (eg Quebec, but possibly also the Monongahela) they were put into line. When in line they did poorly: they were basically expert backwoodsmen who were more at home fighting in the native style unlike the Comp...

I've never been certain and so avoid it for that reason. It could be just the most senior leader currently with the unit (if there is one, if there isn't, it wouldn't apply, obviously), or it could just be the overall commander of the force. Your guess is as good as mine. I've taken to using Surly i...

<t>I can't see an objection to giving them first fire, although with the choice between hitting on 3s at 12" and 6s at 24" anyway, I think most players would reserve fire anyway. That said, a Crashing Volley hitting on 2s, even from just six figures will be appropriately shocking! So why not?<br/> <...

Amazing to see someone do this campaign with such lovely figures and terrain. Thanks for posting about it here or I'd have been oblivious.