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Post by chad on Oct 4, 2017 12:05:23 GMT
When are you thinking of playing - as I'll need something to let me put a list together in terms of costs and arming. Not sure it depends when we get 4 players I suppose. So far it's: 1) Tim (rats) 2) Chad (Elveses or Dark Elveses or undead) 3) Rory (Posh Elveses)?? 4) Katie (more rats)?? Or does anyone else want to throw their hat into the ring? Oh and I can do your army list for you Tim - 24 units of ravenous horde, there ya go!
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Post by Timf on Oct 4, 2017 12:07:44 GMT
Boat Chris has rats too.....Katie may have more than just Rattus rattus as well. Michael will probably be fairly easily persuaded to drag out the stunties....
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Post by Katie on Oct 5, 2017 12:39:28 GMT
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Post by Timf on Oct 6, 2017 8:13:37 GMT
So - how many points per army and is the cost a per figure or per unit (I assume per figure)
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Post by chad on Oct 6, 2017 12:36:21 GMT
24 points per side is the default. Costs are per unit. So a unit of your 'ravenous horde' rats will cost you 1 point, for which you'd have 12 models. Then again, if you decided to designate rat ogres (for the sake of argument) as an 'elite foot' unit that would cost you 6 points for a unit, for which you'd use maybe three large models. Then again Katie's summoned worm would be classed as a 'greater warbeast' unit and just use one humongous model for 6 points. A pack of giant rats might be classified as 'lesser warbeasts', have 6 models and cost 4 points.
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Post by Timf on Oct 6, 2017 13:11:42 GMT
OK even easier then.....I can classify away then and produce a list
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Post by Timf on Oct 6, 2017 13:18:16 GMT
The only thing I cannot get at from the summaries is characters and spellcasters especially. I get banners/holy men that's detailed but the rest seem to be generally possible upgrades. Flame spore attacks might come into play and I assume there aren't rules for artillery pieces? I did think giant rats might be Hounds and Handler type units but it says no Fantasy.....
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Post by Katie on Oct 6, 2017 20:17:55 GMT
The spellcasters rules didn't nearly fit onto one side of A4...
Characters are just the special rules for banners/holy men (LR/DR) agitators/priests/heroes (TPL).
Yes, there are artillery/handguns rules. I've added them to the sheet... TPL has more advanced ones involving facing, but they're not portable. These are for medieval-type guns.
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Post by chad on Oct 6, 2017 20:26:24 GMT
I don't think that there are separate characters as such - if you want a character/hero you just class it as one of the available troop types - elite foot, light horse etc. To give a character a bit of 'character' you could add some of the 'fantastical rules' such as magic armour. For wizards again you class as one of the standard troops types and then add 4 points for the 'spellcaster' ability, which means you can cast any of the spells in the book. The spells are not over-powerful, but can have a big influence if used correctly and at the right time. Alternatively you can choose the 'wizardling' option for 2 points, representing lesser spellcasters. These can only choose three spells - so not as flexible, but cheaper.
I don't think that the banners/holy men applies to the fantasy version of the ruleset. With respect to giant rats, they'd probably be best off being classed as lesser warbeasts or ravenous horde, depending on how giant they are! Hounds and handler again sounds like it applies to the historical version of the rules.
For artillery, I'd class them as 'heavy missiles', with the option of 'weighty projectiles' if you thought that appropriate.
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Post by rflowings on Oct 6, 2017 22:45:00 GMT
I'm not sure if "Hounds & Handler" are exactly the same as DR "Lesser Warbeasts" but essentially that would be right for Giant Rats.
A late follow up to our match, Chad, but it was grwat fun and I hope a good case has been made for Dragon Rampant to revisit the table soon!
And now, in the best Eye of Argon tradition, my AAR:
The Tribulations of Morbryth the Sinister
Some say that the Sylvan Elves learned of the Brillig Amulet from a traitor within the Tower of Amethyst. Some say they simply scryed a powerful artefact within the tower and chose their moment well, when the garrison was busy with the annual boat race down Whisper River. Regardless, when Morbryn the Sinister, inexperienced sage of the tower, discovered that his charge had been stolen, he sent word directly to Lord Chancellor Calenhad, and it was thus that the pale young mage joined forces with Rossendyl The Single-Handed to return the Amulet to its place of safe-keeping.
With the aid of Rossendyl's elite frontier rangers, Morbryth and the garrison ventured into the hinterlands between Whisper River and the deep woods where the Sylvan folk tread. Proud and confident were the Wood Elves, arraying their bare-chested archers in line of battle, daring to contest the open field with their high cousins. Immediately Morbryn realised that the Amulet had bewitched the Sylvan commander's mind. Rossendyl's silver-mailed axemen and cavalry swept forward, under cover of Morbryn's ensorcelled mist, whence no Wood Elf eye could penetrate. Immediately the High Elves were assailed by the Sylvan cavalry, who pressed them hard and stalled the attack.
Rossendyl and his crack swordsmen, advancing through the woods on the left, felt the pull of the Amulet as Wood Elf skirmishers crept through the woods. As the Sylvan cavalry feinted toward their flank, Rossendyl's warriors surged forward and cut them out of their saddles. With his remaing hand, Rossendyl lifted the Brillig Amulet from the green-swathed corpses of his foes and shivered. If the Sylvan folk had only held on to it for another day, it could have been catastrophic...
With the wood elves defeated, Rossendyl and his forces escorted Morbryth back to the Tower of Amethyst. The Garrison proceeded to win the boat race, and the High Elves all drank excessive amounts of mead and wine. Such was the convivial spirit that Morbryth and his troops agreed to accompany Rossendyl's forces back to the Zephyr mountains in the morning.
While the High Elf fires burned low, the wood elves plotted their revenge...
The wetlands along the Whisper River are dotted with copses of willow and in the early morning dew, it is said that spirits of the dead rise as ghostly lights from the reedbeds. As the High Elves marched back along the banks in the pale flush of dawn, their Sylvan cousins unleashed a hail of arrows like a swarm of furious locusts. Elvish horsemen crashed into one another in a flurry of steel. Throwing back the wood elf cavalry, the High Elf line surged forward, only to be met with a further volley. Rossendyl's frontiersmen, distracted by the mystical glow of the ghost lights, floundered in the marsh, while Morbryth and the Amethyst garrison, badly hung over, began to withdraw to the tower.
In an effort to restore the situation, Rossendyl and his swordsmen charged the Wood Elf lines, cutting down the last of their heavy cavalry and throwing back the first line of archers in disarray. The Wood Elves, however, were out for vengeance and the second line peppered Rossendyl's armoured troops with yet more well-directed arrows. His rangers falling back, his cavalry wiped out, and seemingly limitless numbers of Sylvan archers crouched beneath every shrub and shadow, Rossendyl decided discretion would probably look better on his report to the Lord Chancellor and fell back to the Tower of Amethyst for a severely necessary hair of the dog.
The woods fall silent again...
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Post by Katie on Oct 7, 2017 17:46:23 GMT
I've located enough painted undead to make an undead army and worked out a Ratty armylist too.
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Post by chad on Oct 9, 2017 12:19:18 GMT
Ok, so it looks like we have 4 players and four armies. So now timing - when could everyone make it for a game?
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Post by Timf on Oct 9, 2017 13:58:41 GMT
Any non-rpg night
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Post by rflowings on Oct 9, 2017 20:13:58 GMT
I'm up for this next weekend, apologies I couldn't make it tonight (I am conducting a miniature defence review).
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Post by chad on Oct 10, 2017 12:24:35 GMT
Is next Monday a non-rpg night? I can make it if so.
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