Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Mark Stone]

Quoting "WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com" <WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com>:

> Message: 15
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 14:40:55 -0000
> From: "Greg Regets" <greg.regets@...>
> Subject: Nike Opinion
>
> It seems like everyone wants to make this army a "hoof-n-steel", or
> a "shoot and move", or even a "quazi-heavy-Legionary", army. It seems
> like there are quite a few armies that do any of these styles
> considerably better than the Nike.
>
> Has anyone considered the exotic weapon choices for this list
> offering, such as Reg LMI,S,Sh and the cart mounted bolt shooters? It
> would seem to me that these choices would give you a unique army.
> There are times when the unusual can be a force multiplier that makes
> the sum of the parts, better than the individual pieces.
>

Greg makes an excellent point here. When I first started tinkering with the Nike
list, I had written up a version buying every possible sling figure, all the
bolt shooters, no SHC, no Varangians.... it was starting to look a little bit
like an Inca list with some cav sprinkled in.

But the thing that makes it appealing is also the thing that makes it hard to
do: on the one hand, it's exotic enough that opponents won't be able to easily
fit it into a type; on the other hand it's exotic enough that I can't really
reuse figures from any of my other armies to do it. This is one of the reasons
I've never done an army like Midianite or Burmese: what _else_ would I use the
figures for? Nothing.

As I type this, of course, I'm realizing that my 25mm bias is showing. Greg, as
I recall, is primarily a 15mm player. Doing an army or a set of figures on a
whim is much less expensive and requires much less painting time in 15mm. When I
played in that scale I had two armies that I painted up just because they were a
blast to play. Neither was particularly strong as a tournament army, and neither
really overlapped figures with much else that I had. One was Grenadine, the
other was Post Mongol Russian. In 15mm that kind of thing is possible; in 25mm,
not really.


-Mark Stone