Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Trajan]

Trying to work on campaign rules and figuring out ways to balance Gauls/Germans vs. more civilized troops.

I am pretty new to Warrior, so I am not sure on balance between armies.

Part I
How do even points Germans/Gallic/Illyrians/Spanish. do against an equal force army of Romans, Carthaginians, Macedonians, Greeks?


Part II


Would the following be too unbalancing?


1. an extra piece of terrain for the barbarians.

2. the ability to re-roll 3 placement rolls (for the barbarians or force the invaders to re-roll their placement dice)


Thanks for any input

Matt

[scott holder]

The answers are invariably "it depends".

Of the Barbarian lists, only the Spanish is viable against Romans/Carthagenians/Macedonians and even then you don't have equal shock elements. Sure, Spanish infantry packs a punch but when facing a combined arms army that has lance-armed cav, you either need to be really good or really lucky.

I don't think anything you've proposed is unbalancing. And, you (and we) won't know until somebody tries something along those lines.

Do it and report back!

scott

[Historian]

IMHO, in any campaign, the defender should get an advantage in terrain placement, and the invader just needs to deal with it.

I think your Barbarians vs. the Greeks, Carthaginians, or Macedonians is a fair fight. But a straight up battle against the Romans is going to be tough going.

[lilroblis]

I would propose you allow some greek and roman allies/depending on how you set it up.
The gauls or the spanish can do well, but they will struggle - you may want to allow reinforcements based on where the fight is - so in Gaul/ spain they get a 10% force advantage or you get higher replenishment numbers.
I am not sure that you cannot beat Romans - they have little in the way of good cavalry in the early periods (pre-imperial)- sounds like fun.
You will need to play some set up games
Good luck and let us know
Robert

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