Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Ewan McNay]

Steven Hollowell wrote:
> This one came up more than once. At what point does one need to
> tell an opponent whether a unit is regular or irregular? Locally, I
> have never had anyone ask me until a unit has done things only a
> regular unit can and I seem to recall more than one person telling
> me I don't have to say anything until something like that occurs.
> Is there an unwritten rule that during setup (or whenever) I must
> tell the opponent? Should my figures be a mishmash of clothing to
> better represent irregular troops? I have no preference on
> declaring regular/irregular, I just would like to see everyone
> doing the same thing.

There's no clear ruling on this. Troops should be 'as depicted' - but
even my Sassanids, commissioned especially for the event, did not have
shields on the SHC, for instance. I generally agree with you - that
the question is only asked when something regular is done.

Fire arrows were something else that I left out; but Jon and Scott
assure me that this silliness is going away so I will not worry. A
couple more things should come in the Theme report.

> When you outscout your opponent, do you still need to record forced
> marches on your map? (not that my rendition of the Condotta ever
> outscouts anyone!)

Yes. This was critical against Derek - I had to decide how much faith
to put in my guess of what he would do *before* he deployed. On the
other hand, unless in ambush (where your exact location must be
pre-recorded), the rules allow you (I think) to 'wiggle' those force
marchers for best placemet in light of e.g. your outscouted opponent's
force marchers.

> When charging a skirmishing unit, shouldn't they always evade
> unless having declared a charge of it's own? I am not talking about
> recieving impetous charges here. I just saw some questionable
> charge reponses that I didn't feel like arguing.

Yes.

> In my reread, that sounds like I won some award, but I really just
> wanted to thank all those people for making Warrior a fun and
> interesting hobby.

Indeed. It's a pretty great bunch of folks. Some day I will organise
a tournament along the UK lines where everyone gets together for a
meal (usually curry) on the Saturday night, because the social aspects
*are* important. These days, even our kids get to play together .

> On another note, I was a little concerned about some sloppy play,
> like holding the corner of your base when you wheel... maybe
> someone more experienced could write up a tournament etiquette
> piece sometime.

Huh. OK. Poke me again some time.

> Excellent write-up Ewan. I really like to read about the
> experiences of other players. I wish I could get those Warrior
> files to load for me.

Thanks. What's the problem with the files - do you not have
PowerPoint? I could save the maps as .png or similar if that helped.