"…Having suffered a number of defeats with the Sicilians, I decided to do a major revamp on how the army was to be played. Gone are the Almughavars. They look nice being spear/impact, option for elite, but the end result of almost all the losses was that 12 points of my demoralization total was from them. They died hard, but operative word there was died. The only way to avoid that is to not provide them as targets.
The Kingdom of Sicily list is broken up into 4 periods, and I selected the Saracen period. This gives me access to the Strategist, a number of light infantry, and a couple of cheap medium swordsmen. From them I created a micro command of 13 points. I also expanded the number of light horse to 4. Raising my initiative rating to 4.
My plan is to deploy as follows. In one ambush, hide the Saracen command. In another ambush, hide a pair of light horse. This gives my opponent the uncertainty that there is a flank march running. The intention is to never reveal the Saracens until necessary, so the flank march will look real.
The hidden light horse would be revealed almost immediately. The thought there is that most armies in my period range will have only 2 or less light horse, and give me an advantage to overwhelm them and get around the enemy lines…"
Phil on Ancients
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Armand
journeys to and from the Australian national convention - and tells us what he thinks of panicking tank hordes and flat terrain!
