Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Craig Scott]

Please don't forget Issus; probably 30,000 merc hoplites fighting in
front of Darius III. They being said; 18 elements are probably
sufficient. The "B" morale was a bold and in my option a correct
option!

Craig
--- In WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com, hrisikos@D... wrote:
> > Greetings to all Warriors,
> >
> > It's been some time now since I've added my thoughts to this
> > venerable list of sage thinkers and I must say it has been too
long!
> > What I have to comment on has to do with numbers and history
which
> > is set against game balance and the massive task of editing and
> > researching all of the lists in Classical Warrior. This work in
and
> > of it's self must have been a huge undertaking. I must admit
that it
> > has been the cause of my going back to read more and more about
the
> > era than previous efforts. In this post, I wish though, to
propose a
> > list comment and advise a change to a more realistic troop total
for
> > a certain troop type for the happless foes of the Greeks and that
> > would be none other than the Later Acaemenid Persians.
Specifically
> > this deals with Iphicrates and his reformed hoplites.
>
> Yes, I read the whole thing, and of course, I find this
fascinating. I
> will ponder this and get back to you. One thing I should mention is
the
> problem of list balance. Giving Persians 24 elements (four to six
large to
> medium sized units) of Greek hoplites might be problematic in terms
of
> obliterating the overall personality of the army. Also, I seem to
recall
> that other Greek armies with contingents of 10-12,000 of a certain
type of
> troop are often allowed only twelve elements to reflect that troop
type.
> I am not sure I am recalling this correctly, though, and will have
to
> check. Also, mercenaries in Persian service would doubtless be C
class
> morale, and these Iphicrateans should be LMI, LTS (no JLS), Sh. I'm
not
> sure you want to run 24 elements of them anyway!
>
> One thing's for sure, Bill Low and/or Scott thought about this issue
> before coming down one way or the other. Thanks for rthe history
>
>
> Greek