Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

Ewan,

Jon's caveats aside, I appreciate your posting in the files section.
It is interesting to read through the mental process of list
construction from an experienced player. There is a lot of tacit
knowledge that goes into doing these things well in the tournament
setting and it's hard to learn by doing when you don't play often.

Your process points up one of the things I find most uncomfortable
about the list construction standards in most ancient games. (This
certainly isn't a beef aimed at Warrior in particular.) The approach
of taking the minimum of these troops, the maximum of those
underscores the fantasy aspect of the tournament setting. I wish
there were army lists built on ratios of some sort rather than pure 0-
xx listing.

But I'm patiently waiting for Imperial and Classical warrior lists to
come out, so I have time to marshall my meager coinage to buy painted
armies once I know what lists will be legal. (Having little time to
play, I have even less for painting.)

John Meunier

[joncleaves]

In a message dated 10/21/2002 2:39:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, scribblerjohn
writes:

> I wish there were army lists built on ratios of some sort rather than pure
0-xx listing.>>

I am very much in agreement with that, and do a little of that with some of the
more powerful troops in Fantasy Warrior. Theoretically we might go back and do
some mainline lists that way as alternatives after the books are published, but
no way to do that with the base lists as that would have put us into playtest
for two more years.

Nothing says a tourney organizer can't do something similar, though. Like the
'D-class' tourney on the east coast...

Jon

[Bill Low]

A very good point ... about the ratios rather than absolute numbers for
minima and maxima ... and one that is never very far from list editors'
minds. Interrelates pretty closely with "assumed" army sizes, which of
course carry their own limitations. Thanks for posting the insight.

At 07:39 PM 10/21/2002 +0000, scribblerm wrote:
> Ewan,
>
> Jon's caveats aside, I appreciate your posting in the files section.
> It is interesting to read through the mental process of list
> construction from an experienced player. There is a lot of tacit
> knowledge that goes into doing these things well in the tournament
> setting and it's hard to learn by doing when you don't play often.
>
> Your process points up one of the things I find most uncomfortable
> about the list construction standards in most ancient games. (This
> certainly isn't a beef aimed at Warrior in particular.) The approach
> of taking the minimum of these troops, the maximum of those
> underscores the fantasy aspect of the tournament setting. I wish
> there were army lists built on ratios of some sort rather than pure 0-
> xx listing.
>
> But I'm patiently waiting for Imperial and Classical warrior lists to
> come out, so I have time to marshall my meager coinage to buy painted
> armies once I know what lists will be legal. (Having little time to
> play, I have even less for painting.)
>
> John Meunier
>
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