Too Fat Lardies

The actual rules say “ Nobles may rally Shock from Groups under their command, however Harassing Troops and Light Cavalry can never be rallied” I think we have taken the view that “Nobles” applies to the whole sentence. But open to debate. Also the wording on page 30 does not restrict the Rally car...

The actual rules say “ Nobles may rally Shock from Groups under their command, however Harassing Troops and Light Cavalry can never be rallied” I think we have taken the view that “Nobles” applies to the whole sentence. But open to debate. Also the wording on page 30 does not restrict the Rally card...

Just as an aside: while I’m very happy if this makes easier for people to play Dux, what I’m really looking for is people to read through it and go “no Mike, you’ve got that completely wrong”. Well, actually, ideally not that, but you know what I mean

Note re page references - Dxx = main rulebook, Rxx = Raiders

Dux Compendium - it's starting to get to That Time... The link below is to the current draft of the rules clarifications section in the Compendium. Huge thanks to Derek Hodge for the initial compilation of these from Lardy Rich's answers on the various TFL discussion areas. Notes in blue are where I...

Read it, but once you’ve read it read the Guy Halsall book. He demolishes Morris’ arguments rather impressively (and with better citations and evidence than Morris has for his own work)

Historical Documents Gildas - "De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae” Bede - “Ecclesiastical History of the English People” Nennius - “Historia Brittonum” Modern Texts Guy Halsall - “Worlds of Arthur”. Francis Pryor - “Britain AD”. Jim Storr - “King Arthur’s Wars” John Morris - “The Age Of Arthur: A H...

Hopefully in the final stretch. I have one more playtest scheduled for a week tomorrow, and this week off in which I am aiming to finish the text, barring the index.

There will be a bibliography in the Compendium of both fact and fiction: I will stick the work in progress list of titles in here next time I have the file open. Note that it isn’t by any means complete at this point.

Belated response:

I tend to allow the same - if it's obvious that a group or non-Shieldwall formation can track some *smoothly* curving terrain feature like a road or the edge of a wood, I'll tend to allow it as an umpire. It isn't what the rules say, though