Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Mark Stone]

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

> Message: 16
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:11:18 -0500
> From: Doug <rockd@...>
> Subject: 25mm Scale & accessability of armies
>
> The DBM list a while back had a lot of traffic on morphable figures
> and armies. How to make half a dozen lists from one set of figures
> that still looked historically correct.
>
> I dunno if the Warrior lists are constructed in such a way that
> morphing is easy or not. Perhaps some of the cognoscenti could
> publish some morphs to maximize the cost effectiveness of 25mm scale?
> --
>

The Warrior lists are absolutely amenable to this kind of morphing. Over the
last 5 years I have used the same set of roughly 300 figures to play the
following armies, in point totals from 1200 to 2000:
- Teutonic Knights
- Knights of Saint John
- Medieval French
- Romanian Frank
- Later Hungarian
- Later Paleologan Byzantine

This has required some rebasing, as armies like Byzantines and Knights of Saint
John have mostly regular loose order foot while armies like French and Romanian
Frank have mostly irregular loose order foot. And I did have to change the
shields on about 6 figures of knights from a black "T" to a red cross. All in
all, not a whole lot of work though.

With about 42 generic SHK types, about 18 HC sergeant types, 48 LC, some with
just bow, some with JLS,B,Sh, 36 LI with bow, 24 LI with CB, 12 LI with JLS, 24
HC L,B,Sh, 48 loose order crossbowmen and 48 loose order bowmen and 36 loose
order javelinmen you can put together a very wide range of armies from Holy
Warrior and Feudal Warrior.

You could actually pare this down to around 200 figures and still play most of
the same armies, though without the same degree of flexibility. And you have to
be a little charitable. Guys with JLS occaisionally pose as guys with 2HCT, or
as guys with LTS, or as guys with HTW. And some of the SHK or the HC do put in
an occaisional appearance as EHK. Nothing that's too much of a stretch, though.

I know that a comparable sized core of figures could be used to play any of the
Alexandrian or successor armies, though I myself would never have anything to do
with armies that thought of bronze as a real metal.


-Mark Stone