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Blogger Sire Godefroy said...

Your planning via the C&C board looks quite professional. I'm not so much into grand scale battles, simply due to a lack of appropriate masses of miniatures. So, I stand in awe when watching your battle lines unfold. Keep up the great work!

Cheers
SG

29 January 2010 at 11:30

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Thanks, SG.

My mate Ian said last night that one of the benefits of C&C for very big wargames, is that you can playtest everything extensively using the blocks that come with the boardgames. Especially handy in this case, because I won't see half the miniatures until the day of the game!

29 January 2010 at 11:58

Blogger legatus hedlius said...

This is going to be a lot of figures!

Can't wait to see it!

29 January 2010 at 12:21

Blogger Caliban said...

Hi Simon, I like the way you use the boardgame to provide a "feel" for the whole thing; good luck with producing the boards for the day itself. And of course once you have those, you've got them permanently!

We are going with something extremely close to your suggested deployment. We will be "tweaking" the Carthaginian cavalry wings to make them last a while against the masses arrayed against them. The Carthaginian right wing will be composed of "heavy" cavalry against "medium" equites. We are alos thinking of making Hannibal's Numidian contingent superior quality; I came across a reference in Brian Todd Carey's book to the effect that they were considered to be the best light horse in Africa. They will also of course be well outnumbered, but we want to make the game close, which means trying to find a way to model the interaction of the various components of both armies. It's going to hinge on whether or not we can get the balance right between what seems to have happened historically on the one hand, and the rules constraints on the other.

And it's going to be run on several occasions at shows, so it needs to be able to draw people in okay, and still be easy to understand.

Good luck with yours!
Paul

29 January 2010 at 12:40

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Thanks Paul.

We've left the Carthaginian wings relatively weak. In our game, the Carthaginians will be under pressure to win in the centre, before they (probably) lose on the wings!

29 January 2010 at 12:48

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