Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

Is this game like warhammer ancient battles where each individual unit
is unique or is it like DBM where the units are just fancy names for
calvary and heavy infantry? And is this game balanced where an ancient
army can beat a medieval army or is it historically accurate where the
ancient egyptian army will lose to the crusaders? And does each
culture have unique characteristics such as mongols will have lighter
troops than the tutonic knights? And are the orientals stronger than
the westerners in this game?

Greetings,
The short of it is that Warrior is more involved and complex than Either WAB or
DBA/M.
--- In WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com, "agassagsagsagsagsa" <duosiji@r...> wrote:
> Is this game like warhammer ancient battles where each individual unit
> is unique or is it like DBM where the units are just fancy names for
> calvary and heavy infantry?
Each unit is different and will preform differently. Each army list has between
30-50 troop types, with some armies having over 100 different types of units.
And is this game balanced where an ancient
> army can beat a medieval army or is it historically accurate where the
> ancient egyptian army will lose to the crusaders?
The point system balances the sides so that with good tactics an egyptian army
could beat a crusader army. The odds are that it won't but it could.
And does each
> culture have unique characteristics such as mongols will have lighter
> troops than the tutonic knights?
Yes the Mongols have lighter horse than the Tuetonic army.

And are the orientals stronger than
> the westerners in this game?
This is part of the point system balancing. It happens that a lot of folks are
playing eastern but that doesn't mean they are stronger. I play more Eastern
armies but that is because I like cav armies.

Hope it helps some.

--- In WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com, "Terry Dix" <notalent@p...>
wrote:
> Greetings,
> The short of it is that Warrior is more involved and complex than
Either WAB or DBA/M.
> --- In WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com, "agassagsagsagsagsa"
<duosiji@r...> wrote:
> > Is this game like warhammer ancient battles where each
individual unit
> > is unique or is it like DBM where the units are just fancy names
for
> > calvary and heavy infantry?
> Each unit is different and will preform differently. Each army
list has between 30-50 troop types, with some armies having over 100
different types of units.
> And is this game balanced where an ancient
> > army can beat a medieval army or is it historically accurate
where the
> > ancient egyptian army will lose to the crusaders?
> The point system balances the sides so that with good tactics an
egyptian army could beat a crusader army. The odds are that it
won't but it could.
> And does each
> > culture have unique characteristics such as mongols will have
lighter
> > troops than the tutonic knights?
> Yes the Mongols have lighter horse than the Tuetonic army.
>
> And are the orientals stronger than
> > the westerners in this game?
> This is part of the point system balancing. It happens that a lot
of folks are playing eastern but that doesn't mean they are
stronger. I play more Eastern armies but that is because I like cav
armies.
>
> Hope it helps some.

Do the west have better armour and more deadly weapons than the
east? And how are the chinese in this game?

Greetings
Depends on which Chinese army you want to play. a chinese army finished 2nd in
the open tournament at Historicon. As for the weapons and armor it depends on
what tou mean by western
> Do the west have better armour and more deadly weapons than the
> east? And how are the chinese in this game?

--- In WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com, "Terry Dix" <notalent@p...> wrote:
> Greetings
> Depends on which Chinese army you want to play. a chinese army
finished 2nd in the open tournament at Historicon. As for the weapons
and armor it depends on what tou mean by western
> > Do the west have better armour and more deadly weapons than the
> > east? And how are the chinese in this game?
I meant that do the western men at arms have better armour than the
mongol horse archers. And how do archery work in the game? And do the
western armies always lose in this game?

[Mark Stone]

>
> I meant that do the western men at arms have better armour than the
> mongol horse archers. And how do archery work in the game? And do the
> western armies always lose in this game?
>

Armor classification in Warrior is one of light, medium, heavy, extra heavy,
super heavy. Both eastern and western armies make use of all of these armor
types, though super heavy is more common in western armies than in eastern
armies.

"How does archery work" is a very general question, and therefore almost
impossible to answer. Archery is an important part of the game, and an
important part of what makes Mongol and Chinese armies successful.

Western armies do not always lose. Eastern armies do not always lose. The game
is well balanced in this respect. Of armies from 1200 AD - 1500 AD, the period
I know the most about, I would say that at least all of the following are
competitive enough that a skilled player can do well with them against any
opponent:
- Mongol (Genghis Khan, Subotai, etc.)
- Yuan Mongol (Kublai Khan)
- Timurid Mongol (Timur)
- Early Ottoman Turk
- Later Ottoman Turk
- Ming Chinese
- Khmer
- Sultanate of Delhi
- Rajput Confederacy
- Mameluke Egyptian
- Later Polish
- Later Hungarian
- Later Paleologan Byzantine
- Romanian Frank
- Italian Condotta
- Swiss
- Medieval Spanish
- Knights of Saint John
- Early Teutonic Knights
- Later Teutonic Knights
- Lithuanian
- Grenadine
- 100 Years' War English
- Burgundian Ordannance
- War of the Roses English


-Mark Stone