Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Tom McMillan]

In trying to choose an army to try in the fast Warrior event at Cold wars, I
was struck by the disparity in size of these armies. Are they designed to be
a set number of points, or just competetively balanced?
Consider-

Picts-
2 el LCh
4 el LC
12 el LMI
12 el LMI
8 el LMI
6 el LI
6 el LI

Mayan-
2 el LMI
4 el LMI
6 el LMI
6 el LMI
6 el LMI
6 el LI

That makes 50 els of Picts to 30 very similar els of Maya. The Maya have 4
more B class elements, and 12 have 2 weapons, but the chariots and cavalry
are more expensive.
Am I reading the lists wrong, or missing some rationale here?

[joncleaves]

Tom, they are all right around 650 points, give or take a few. Certainly the
number of elements in a FW list will vary - Midianites more - Teutonics less,
based on point cost.


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[scott holder]

In trying to choose an army to try in the fast Warrior event at Cold
wars, I
was struck by the disparity in size of these armies. Are they designed
to be
a set number of points, or just competetively balanced?

>When designing the lists, my guidelines were 4-7 units of troops
(including the CinC in a unit) that aimed at *broadly* 650 pts. In
order to meet these guidelines, I had to tweak things here and there and
did have competitiveness in mind. Having said that, I know I failed in
at least one case. And not every army is the same size in terms of
"points".

>As we do more gaming with FW, I'll be more than open to additional
tweaking.

>I know that from playtesting (and we pretty much stuck to historical
pairings in playtesting), the aforementioned guidelines seemed to
produce reasonable armies. In fact, some armies that just absolutely
stank up da house in the "big" game, did very well in the "little" game,
at least in historical matchups. How well this translates across the
broad swath of history remains to be seen.

Scott
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