Last Updated
Mon Nov 15 19:47:51 PST 1999
Voters = 6

ANCIENTS VOTING RESULTS:
Voters, By State - California

Voters, By County
county (or equivalent)	percentage
Sacramento		40%
Contra Costa		20%
Los Angeles		20%
Santa Clara		20%

Favorite Rules
rules	percentage
Might of Arms		33%
Warhammer Ancient Battles		33%
Armati		17%
De Bellis Multitudinis		17%

Rules Regularly Played
rules played regularly	percentage
WRG Ancients		50%
Armati		33%
De Bellis Antiquitatis		33%
De Bellis Multitudinis		33%
Might of Arms		33%
Wargame Rules 1420-1700		33%
Warhammer Ancient Battles		33%
Ancients		17%
Archon		17%
Classical Hack		17%
Glutter of Ravens		17%
Legio		17%
Sword & Shield		17%

Number of Rules Regularly Played
number of rules played regularly	percentage
4 rules played		50%
1 rules played		17%
2 rules played		17%
6 rules played		17%

Rules Tried
rules played at least once	percentage
WRG Ancients		100%
De Bellis Multitudinis		83%
De Bellis Antiquitatis		67%
Armati		50%
Might of Arms		50%
Tactica		50%
Archon		33%
Classical Hack		33%
The Killing Ground		33%
Wargame Rules 1420-1700		33%
Warhammer Ancient Battles		33%
Ancient Empires		17%
Ancients		17%
Fast Play Rules For Ancient Warfare		17%
Gladiators		17%
Glutter of Ravens		17%
Legio		17%
Shock of Impact		17%
Siege		17%
Spear & Shield		17%
Sword & Shield		17%
Wargame Rules for Entire Battles		17%

Number of Rules Tried
number of rules played	percentage
10 rules played		50%
4 rules played		17%
5 rules played		17%
6 rules played		17%

Voters, By Experience
level of experience	percentage
Twenty Years or More		50%
Up To Ten Years		33%
Up To Twenty Years		17%

Voters, By Setting
usual game setting	percentage
With a friend or two		67%
At the local club		17%
Solitaire		17%

Number of Armies
number of armies owned or used	percentage
15 army/armies		33%
1 army/armies		17%
10 army/armies		17%
3 army/armies		17%
7 army/armies		17%

Armies Owned/Used
armies owned or used	percentage
Early Imperial Roman		50%
Caledonian/Pictish		33%
Early Byzantine		33%
Early Indian		33%
Early Sassanid		33%
Late-Roman East		33%
Late-Roman West		33%
Later Hoplite Greek		33%
Later Sassanid		33%
Middle Imperial Roman		33%
Parthian		33%
Patrician Roman		33%
Skythian		33%
Sub-Roman British		33%
Alexandrian Imperial		17%
Bactrian and Indo-Greek		17%
Ch'in Chinese		17%
Early Frankish		17%
Early German		17%
Early Gothic/Vandal		17%
Early Hoplite Greek		17%
Early Saxon		17%
Early Seleucid		17%
Gallic		17%
Hunnic		17%
Kushan		17%
Marian Roman		17%
Mede		17%
Neo-Elamite		17%
New Assyrian		17%
New Babylonian		17%
Old & Middle Kingdom Egyptian		17%
Palmyran		17%
Polybian Roman		17%
Scots-Irish		17%
Thracian		17%

Periods Played
period	percentage
Rome		67%
Assyria		50%
Decline of Rome		50%
Greece		50%
India		50%
Persia		50%
China		17%
Competitive/Tournament		17%
Egypt		17%

Number of Periods Played
number of genres/periods played	percentage
4 periods		67%
3 periods		33%

Scales Used
figure scale	percentage
15mm		100%
25mm		67%
20mm		17%

Number of Scales
number of figure scale(s) used (per person)	percentage
2 figure scale(s) used		50%
1 figure scale(s) used		33%
3 figure scale(s) used		17%

RECENT BATTLE REPORTS
howielex
DBA: EIR vs. Galacians. EIR won 4-0 with a good terrain position and poor chariot play by the Galacians. [23 Sep 1999]
Rick Wall
Roman vs Egyptian/Roman in a semi desert battle with low hills and asingle oasis. The Egyptians were flanked and crushed by two chorts before their Roman alllies coud interven. [03 Jun 1999]
Kevin Donovan
Malaccan infantry defated Assyrian chariots and veteran infantry while the Malaccan archers and elephants held off and then defeated Assyrian cavalry and light infantry. [23 May 1999]
Dan Dione
Late Assyria vs. Babylonian revolt. The Babylonians attempted to hold a stream line against the Assyrians entering at uncertain locations in column of march. The Assyrians came in at the far left flank among the low hills and got hung up against good mountain auxiliaries. The Assyrian cavalry commander overextended his attack and was taken in the flank by Midianite camel scouts. The cavalry broke and fled back through the non-yet-deployed archer line, which found its morale shaking. The Babylonian general then moved his reserve horse in against the weakened line and routed it with another flank attack. The Assyrian army then withdrew in reasonable order. If the Assyrian commander had been more patient in the advance and deployed properly on arrival, the results would probably have been very different. The best Assyrian troops, the veteran palace spear/archer units, never got into the battle. Cohort and Phalanx 0.5 (house rules). [31 Mar 99]
Jim McDaniel
Ran solo effort to relieve Hadrian'Wall garrison of late Roman auxilia being attacked by Pictish confederation troops, using MOA. The reinforcements didn't make it to the fort and the garrison was overrrun. [31 Mar 99]
Jim Clarke
Warhammer Ancients: Roughly 3000 points Normans vs. Later Sassanids. WAB was selected as my favorite largely because of the numerous problems with the remainder of the rules currently available. The ideal set of rules for me would combine the best elements of WRG 7th and DBM. WAB is not ideal, but at least it is enjoyble to play. Overall it it probably too much of a step back in terms of simplicity, but as said, it is fun. The ideal set of rules should be unit based (not element based), incorporate fatigue into shooting and combat, and have some limitation on command and control (DBM does a good job at this). The rules in turn should not require a fixed number of units per army or a fixed army list per army. Finally the ideal rules should be clearly written (i.e., not written by Phil Barker), and have a well organized index that allows quick resolution of questions as they arise, and should not have an excesivley complicated series of modifiers to any combat, shooting, or morale resolution. [30 Mar 99]

ANCIENTS VOTING RESULTS:Voters, By State - California

ANCIENTS VOTING RESULTS:
Voters, By State - California