| BobTYW | 03 Jul 2009 11:30 a.m. PST |
I want to use about 40 to 50 Gamezone/Reaper Knights and men-at-arms and pit them against an adversary (of equal strength) of some type. What would you recommend (1st) as an adversary and (2nd)what type of Fantasy Rules (Skirmish I guess) would work well. |
 Saber6   | 03 Jul 2009 11:43 a.m. PST |
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 Editor in Chief Bill  | 03 Jul 2009 11:45 a.m. PST |
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| Plynkes | 03 Jul 2009 12:54 p.m. PST |
Pawns, rooks and bishops? |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 03 Jul 2009 12:57 p.m. PST |
Longbowmen? (English at Crecy) Horse archers? (Saladin in the Crusades) |
| SCAdian | 03 Jul 2009 5:00 p.m. PST |
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| Goldwyrm | 03 Jul 2009 6:49 p.m. PST |
Lycans The Rabbit of Caerbannog |
| Baggy Sausage | 03 Jul 2009 7:14 p.m. PST |
Wedding attendees and a bride with a footprint on her chest? |
| Brummie Lad | 04 Jul 2009 2:51 a.m. PST |
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| hwarang | 04 Jul 2009 5:14 a.m. PST |
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| Steve Hazuka | 04 Jul 2009 7:42 a.m. PST |
Kdays (k nights-K days) really small rocks |
| Sloth1963 | 04 Jul 2009 9:27 a.m. PST |
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| BobTYW | 04 Jul 2009 11:58 p.m. PST |
Very Cute. This was a serious question. Anyways, any recommends for rules, never played before. |
| Brummie Lad | 05 Jul 2009 3:57 a.m. PST |
Seriously:
Dragons are a good suggestion.
Warg/other alternative beast riders would work well
As regards to rules, I don't really play fantasy skirmish games, but HOTT are a pretty decent rules set. |
| Madan Mitra | 05 Jul 2009 4:49 a.m. PST |
Ok, how about Songs Of Blades & Heroes since no one has mentioned it yet…very good, just do some searches on TMP to find out all about it. As to opponents…Ogres and Trolls oh my!
Rgds
Madan |
| Dunadan | 05 Jul 2009 8:37 a.m. PST |
Ogres, Dragons, Black Knights, Wargs, Goblins, Skeletons. I've heard that GW's Lord of the Rings skirmish game is pretty good. |
| M C MonkeyDew | 05 Jul 2009 11:20 a.m. PST |
Our Warrior Heroes Armies and Adventures is quite popular around here. Fit for skirmishes up to about 1 figure = 50 combatants. There are modified rules for each scale as well as campaign generators and a dungeon generator all solo/same side friendly, with NPC's controlled by the game system. A more or less light version CR3 Swordplay is available as a free download at twohourwargames.com Bob |
| Daffy Doug | 05 Jul 2009 2:38 p.m. PST |
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| Marshal Mark | 06 Jul 2009 5:30 a.m. PST |
Song of Blades & Heroes is a great fantasy skirmish system but it doesn't really work with the number of figures you want to use. The problem is, skirmish games generally work better with less figures (say 10 to 20 per side) and mass battle games need more figures. The number of figures you want to use is in between.
HOTT would work but you'd need to base them on element bases (2/3 mounted knights or 3/4 foot soldiers to a 60mm frontage base). A HOTT army is around 12 bases so you'd have the correct number of figures. |
| M C MonkeyDew | 06 Jul 2009 11:10 a.m. PST |
…yet a perfectly acceptable size for the full battle rules in Warrior Heroes Armies and Adventures : ) |
| Mooseworks8 | 06 Jul 2009 1:30 p.m. PST |
AD&D Battlesystem or Mighty Armies for the rules. Opponents:
Dwarves with lots of guns.
High Elf army that is bow heavy.
Undead.
Evil Knights.
Dragons. |
| Last Hussar | 06 Jul 2009 5:03 p.m. PST |
Shameless self promotion link |
| chronoglide | 07 Jul 2009 4:24 p.m. PST |
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| BobTYW | 12 Jul 2009 6:11 p.m. PST |
I hear that WARMACHINE makes small scale battle boxes. Are they designed for Skirmish? How many figs do they contain? |
| Lion in the Stars | 09 Aug 2009 2:55 p.m. PST |
To answer the add-on question, WARMACHINE starter boxes are one infantry model (the General/'Warcaster') and 2-4 big stompy robots. Warmachine is a great skirmish game, but bogs under the weight of the skirmish detail at about 30 minis per side. |
| DS6151 | 10 Aug 2009 5:49 a.m. PST |
Pawns, rooks and bishops? That's actually a very cool idea… |
| 1905Adventure | 10 Aug 2009 8:07 a.m. PST |
Another thing about WM is that it is very much a system mastery type of game. While general tactical ability is good, what really distinguishes opponents is their handle of the game rules and the individual warcaster/solo/warmachine/unit special rules and how they all work and synergize together. This isn't a bad thing, but a heads up is in order. Since you like Gamezone and Reaper, I'm going to suggest undead. |
