"Basic Impetus Battle Report: Clash in the East" Topic

Greek vs. Greek in a Succesor clash!

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I lost!

With Respect
KTravlos

I guess this answered my question in my last post. Cool battle report. How do you like Impetus?

Thanks,

John

The game was Basic Impetus (I will be having the for the full game by next week).

I like it.While we are still slow at timing ,and I still forget some things (like ZOC) once you get the hang of the hits-wound system the game moves fast. Units in BI are definetly less manouverable then single units in DBA thus I will have to say that DBA gives a faster game. On the other hand BI gives a more varied game thanks to the ability of most units to hurt other units.

It definetly is a game that stresses reserves and flank attacks which I think forces players( or should) to think out how they will commit to battle.

But I am still too green in it to make judgments and the only otehr ancients game I have is DBA in which I am green as well.

But I would stress to people giving it a try to paly at least three battles before making a decision as it took me some time to get the fresh-disordered sequence of unit states and the hits to wounds mechanism.

I really liked the fact that the rules punished me for not taking into consideration my opponents superior cavalry arm.