| madaxeman | 19 Aug 2016 10:27 a.m. PST |
As L'Art de la Guerre continues it's inexorable advance in popularity right across the world (it's set to be the biggest competition at the upcoming "The Worlds" in Belgium later this month, with almost 50% more players, drawn from more countries than any other ruleset on offer there), the opportunity to take part in an overseas holiday,erm competition was inevitably going to come around sooner rather than later – and where better do do so than the home of the rules, France, and an event held in one of the most amazing wargaming spaces imaginable – the French Tank Museum in Saumur in the stunning Loire Valley.
I had chosen to take an Early Achaemenid Persian army, mainly on the rationale that I had a lot of Sparabara figures that hadn't seen light of day in years as well as some new cavalry from Xyston (very nice) and Forged in Battle (not quite as impressive). The competition mandated an allied contingent too, which for the Persians was an armoured hoplite Greek command.
After a "fantastique" drive down to Saumur (after getting around the brain-bender of crossing the channel and going into Europe the day after the Brexit vote..) the competition est arrive, giving me 5 games in which to see if my ADLG knowledge and skills stood up to the test of playing against French experts, in French.
The end result was plenty of good learning experiences as various French players gave my army some stiff lessons about new and different ways to play (yes, barbarian armies are more than viable in ADLG!), and the even more surprising appearance of the use of "tactics" and "maneuver" by my forces as we battled to hang on in there and not get crushed underfoot See for yourself how the Persians did in these "incroyable" 5 fully-featured battle reports … |
| mghFond | 19 Aug 2016 11:09 a.m. PST |
Yay! More Madaxeman AARs, always so entertaining. |
| bc1745 | 19 Aug 2016 12:46 p.m. PST |
Excellent aar……. Initially thought it was about……. link |
| steamingdave47 | 19 Aug 2016 2:05 p.m. PST |
Are these rules available anywhere? Played a couple of weeks ago, great fun. |
| kodiakblair | 19 Aug 2016 2:53 p.m. PST |
Fantastic stuff. Wish I'd found time to try ADLG,had the rules two month already. Kinda thought the post was about this. link |
| madaxeman | 19 Aug 2016 3:13 p.m. PST |
There are still some copies out there, but the initial English-language print run of several thousand copies has already sold out according to NorthStar (the UK distributor). I suspect/hope there will be a new print run soon. |
| coopman | 19 Aug 2016 6:18 p.m. PST |
That scene reminds me of the now defunct "Heat of Battle" annual gaming convention that ran at the WWII Museum in New Orleans for about 6 years. |
| Woollygooseuk | 20 Aug 2016 4:32 a.m. PST |
As always, entertaining and instructive in equal measure. |
| madcam2us | 20 Aug 2016 6:07 a.m. PST |
Kinda hard to grow the "world wide" game if its already out of its initial print run in English and we are only Hoping another run comes out….. Still nice report Tim…. Madcam. |
| madaxeman | 20 Aug 2016 6:24 a.m. PST |
Unfortunately I'm not the author or the printer, so fixing that is a little beyond even my not inconsiderable magical powers I'm afraid ! Based on other threads on TMP, the distributors are going to be asking for more copies, so will FLGSs and it seems like there is plenty of interest and demand so I'd imagine that common sense means there will be a reprint soon. We might all find out more next weekend at The Worlds in Charleroi |
| evilgong | 21 Aug 2016 6:30 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the latest instalment Mr Axeman David F Brown |
| PHGamer | 24 Aug 2016 4:19 a.m. PST |
SteamingDave47, you can order them at On Military Matters. link |
| PHGamer | 24 Aug 2016 4:23 a.m. PST |
I spy, with my little eye, something that begins with the letter "P". |
| madaxeman | 24 Aug 2016 11:19 a.m. PST |
The author has emailed to say there should be a reprint in September…! |
says 'thank you' one more time.
