Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Mark Stone]

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

> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:23:48 -0000
> From: "Martin" <mwolverton@...>
> Subject: Medieval French Brigans?
>
> My question before I go re-basing 25mm figures is this: what is the
> best option for the potentially large numbers of Brigans this list
> can have? The old sheildless LTS armed HI were horrible, so the
> numerous option they have now is a real treat....and something of a
> delima. Loose order or close order? LTS or 2hct? SH or PA?
>
> My first inclination is to run them in units of 18 with the front
> rank being LHI, 2hct,Sh and the back LMI, JLS. With a Sacred
> standard close at hand this could make for a nasty impetuous
> charge. However such units would be terrible vunerable to cavalry
> and the second round of comabt would destroy them in most cases. I
> suppose largish units of HI with 2hct and PA might make for
> good "mobile terrain features" in order to channel enemy movement as
> well.
>

I wouldn't get hung up on the vulnerability of the Brigans to enemy cavalry.
You're going to be running them side by side with Irr A SHK, so any cavalry that
gets close enough to the Brigans is going to have other problems. It's called
"combined arms tactics", and it's a good thing.

You want them armed with 2HCT in the front, JLS in the back. And you want to buy
the sacred standard so that you can get these guys going impetuously. The only
question then is loose or close order.

The Brigans are going to hit harder, get to combat faster, and operate in a
wider range of troop types as LHI/LMI. Assuming they get off an impetuous charge
they should beat pikemen and elephants at contact. That's very helpful for your
knights who (a) want somebody to disorder the pikemen for them, and (b) don't
want to fight elephants.

In spite of all of that, I'd take them as: HI 2HCT,Pa/MI JLS. These guys can
only operate in the open, and it takes them a bound longer to get into combat,
and they'll often have to take elephant charges at the halt because of their
shorter charge reach, but I think they better balance the rest of the army
because of their tremendous resistance to missile fire.

Here's a list of important tournament troop types that the HI Brigans beat and
the LHI Brigans lose to:
- Midianite Arab camels
- Burmese elephants
- English longbowmen

And they still beat pikemen at contact.

So that's my $.02 worth.


-Mark Stone