| Bjorn Seleukos | 13 Jul 2015 1:49 p.m. PST |
Ok, there is no perfect rules. But what part from different rules do you think is best for ancient battles? My perfect rules would have:
Movement rules from "To the Strongest"
Command & control from "Hail Caesar"
Melee, Shooting & Morale from "Hail Caesar"
Scenarios from "Lost Battles"
Victory conditions from my own rules |
nnascati  | 13 Jul 2015 2:01 p.m. PST |
The fun and simplicity from The Sword and the Flame. |
| Nikator | 13 Jul 2015 2:05 p.m. PST |
The 'perfect' set of Ancients rules would have to have a time machine included. And batteries. Lots of batteries, for the trip back. |
| Ney Ney | 13 Jul 2015 3:00 p.m. PST |
Adaptation of blitzkrieg commander but NOT hail caesar or Warmaster. |
| evilgong | 13 Jul 2015 5:18 p.m. PST |
DBM, or these days Big-Battle DBA Regards David F Brown |
| Who asked this joker | 13 Jul 2015 5:40 p.m. PST |
Something simple. DBA. Throw me a 6. Tony Bath Ancients for something more meaty. Maybe the latter with Charlie Wessencraft's morale/efficiency rules worked in. |
 Bobgnar | 13 Jul 2015 9:42 p.m. PST |
The rules of DBA but with the support of two fat lardies or genesha games. Those folks answer every question that turns up on their Yahoo group. Ask Phil a question and he says just read the rule. This seems to me to be like in the music man if you read it enough times you'll understand it. The "think system of rule reading". By the way Nick, I have play the ancient games with the sword and the flame. The Romans were the colonial power in the ancient Britons where the native people. |
| Big Red | 14 Jul 2015 8:37 a.m. PST |
"My perfect rules would have:
Movement rules from "To the Strongest"
Command & control from "Hail Caesar"
Melee, Shooting & Morale from "Hail Caesar"
Scenarios from "Lost Battles"
Victory conditions from my own rules" Looks good to me. Why not just paste them together and give it a try? I, for one, would like to know how that would turn out. |
| Desert Fox | 14 Jul 2015 12:09 p.m. PST |
Command and control and movement from DBA and combat results from CCA. |
| advocate | 17 Jul 2015 9:08 a.m. PST |
Not a great fan of'cut and pasting' rules together without being very careful to make sure that things balance out (eg quantity of shooting v movement). I'm enjoying 'Sword and Spear' at the moment. |
| Big Red | 17 Jul 2015 10:46 a.m. PST |
"Not a great fan of'cut and pasting' rules together without being very careful to make sure that things balance out (eg quantity of shooting v movement)." Good point but there's no better way than to give them a try. If it doesn't work, change them or move on. I also like Sword and Spear. |
| mashrewba | 18 Jul 2015 3:30 a.m. PST |
I was just thinking as I scrolled down 'Sword and Spear'!! |
begins his series on how to paint a 15mm DBA army well, in a reasonable time frame.
