Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

Martin,

another army I forgot to ask about was Samurai. (I have an army of
them.) I thought in 7th that their cavalry would become HK, but they
never revised the army list book before I shifted to DBM. Is there a
Japanese list in Warrior under which you could get a combination of
longbow and HK? Also, since the Japanese had wedge but not lance, do
they get to fight in 1 1/2 ranks mounted?

(Sorry if these are very basic questions to those who have been on
the list for a while.)

thanks

Scott




--- In WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com, "martin williams"
<martymagnificent@y...> wrote:
> Hi
>
> another factor that might affect this is that here in oz we havent
> played with the rank and a half of lance for as long. In my humble
> impression there has been a bit of a shift in game balance. Not so
> much away from infantry (long spear and missile armed foot are
> probably more popular than ever) but away from infantry that dont
> fare well against cavalry (jls or htw types). I think this an
> understandable trend as virtually every army you encounter in
> competition (especially in the top half of the comp) has at least 3
> or 4 units of lance armed cavalry of some type and many have
> considerably more. The dark age warrior comp we played is a
> particularly stark illustration of this. Despite selecting our army
> from a book of lists absolutely teeming with powerful warband
> infantry armies in a 4 round competition I played 3 feudal spanish
> armies (presumably as they were the only army in the book that
could
> have EHK). The army I was fortunate enough to win with was Pre
feudal
> scot (ie longspears galore). The chief exception to this trend is
> that these jls or htw troops are still considered more viable when
> they exist in an army with ample lancers of its own to protect them
> (such as the moogs with the chivalry of spain to ride shotgun for
> them) Whether this trend is a bad thing is another issue entirely.
We
> are for instance seeing a wider range of medieval armies in
> particular here in Australia now that people see no need to limit
> their choice to armies with wedge. It might just be a while till I
> get out my vikings or celtiberians (at least in competition anyway)
>
>
> martin

Hi again,

no jap list yet. Will come out in oriental warrior i believe. You can
check the release schedule on the four horsemen website.In the mean
time try having a look at the fast warrior list as this might give
some idea of whats coming. Even if they dont have lance they might
still get an army specific list rule that allows them to fight in a
rank and a half (this has been done for other troops that used to
have wedge (eg skythians)Long bow is probably a better weapon now
than previously as it gets a short range of 120 and there are often
more heavily armoured cav about to shoot at


martin