Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[John Murphy]

Actually, having read Runciman too and liked it, I later found a much
better read for me to be "Victory in the East: A Military History of the
First Crusade" by John France, 1994. But the gist is I agree with your
comments re historical character, and Runciman was pretty interesting
also.

Also, I had some success with _later_ crusaders in a tourney, but I
think it was a theme. Still, seriously, if _I_ can do it...

Fwiw I took the military order in a big way with a reg sub and a couple
reg knight units as well as all the reg lc turcopoles I could (I think
it was 2 4E units). I remember one very fun game this command flank
marched and still got in something like 8 knight charges with the 3
units, carefully prompted and everything! Every M/O knight was 10-14
fatigue but none were exhausted. And that game was not all that
untypical of the rest. I had a great time in that tournament.rompted and
everythingng alsoof the rest.er and fit me like a glove.

I think I also took about every Irreg LC unit I could lay my hands too.
a useless rear rank of something.as all the reg lc turcolopes I

I no longer have the exact list but could try to re-create it. IIRC I
took the foot sergeants as basically crossbow units with a rear rank of
spears I could bring up if needed. But I did not push too hard with them
obviously - generally you have enough LC to avoid putting the foot
sergeants into combat.

It was funny it was one of those things that just fell together and fit
me like a glove.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Stone <mark@...>
Subject: re: crusaders

All of this is written up in an informative and entertaining read by
Steven Runciman in "The First Crusade".

it's a list with huge historical charm. Where else can
you get Richard the Lionhearted, Philip II, and Barbarossa all on one
list?



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