Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Greg Regets]

I wanted to start a new thread on this topic, as I can no longer
follow the other one. ;-)

There will always be defensive play and it will not always be
intentional. I remember a game at Fort Worth Wars a while back where
I played Tim Brown. He was playing Mac. Jew's and I was playing
Italian Condotta. I feared his numbers and make the choice for heavy
terrain to cut down the table. He feared my knights against his mass
of loose order stuff and made the choice for terrain that could
emphasize these guys. We made all eight rolls, with six coming up
about five times. Both sides had very heavy terrain on their side of
the table. For either of us to attack would have been suicide. I
didn't have even close to enough terrain troops to attach him ...
anywhere I would have gone, he would have outnumbered me 3-1. He
couldn't come out, because there was a dead man's zone between us,
and my knights would have had their way. He ended up attacking on one
edge with pikes and I tried to force one brush with 2HCT,CB guys. We
ended up with a non-game. I'm sure at the end of the game, both guys
thought the other was stalling, but that just wasn't the case. We
both tried. We were in first place when we played ... there was no
reason for either of us to stall. We ended up taking each other out
or the top spot ... I got second and he got third. We both played
good players in our other two games and got max wins, so the idea
that we were "defensive" players really doesn't hold water. It just
happened.

I'm sure other people have had this happen to them.

Now, to the point ... in my opinion, we need a second list at
tournaments, and we need to be able to pick lists after terrain is
placed. If that had been the case, I could have chosen a list with
more terrain troops (which is how I always make the second list when
one is allowed) and we could have had a good game. Tim might have
teken one with more pikes or LI (as I remember it, he had none of
very little), in order to escort himself across the knightly dead
zone. At the dead minimum, and exchange, where you can cash in say
300 points for something else on your list, might help.

I honestly think this would help with these games, where neither
guy "intends" to be defensive ... terrain and troop choices just
dictate it.

These are just my opinions ... nothing more.