16-01-2013, 12:35 AM
First of all many thanks Gaz it was a great fun event and 500 points made for some really interesting battles.
Well done Sam... HE RULE!!!
Fireball, yes it's powerful - and a HE army using it won the tournament.
But the other two HE armies only finished mid table. I myself had a win a draw and a loss, so for me fireball was 'fair'.
WIth FB I destroyed 3 units archers, 1 crossbows, one light cavalry, and an attached mage. I also had 5 miscasts and was very lucky I only took one wound and killed one spearman in total! I didn't suffer too much in reply... So probably my oponents would say FB too powerful. I would say HE mages cost 100 points and need an advantage for spending those points.
Brettonia 2+ armour save +ward save knights wiped my entire army. AND he never even charged... so that was just with swords!!! Yes I destroyed his peasant archers with FB, but 2 FBs and 55 rolls to hit (and I had re-rolls) only killed two knights in total...
Scenarios. You made it hard for three things:
Anti-Magic - I thought worked well enough (I had one miscast in that game, but four miscasts when there was no problem!)
Anti-shooting - -1 at long range didn't feel harsh enough. OK you might miss, but you don't blow up, so mages and cavalry risk getting killed in other scenarios, but shooters don't. Maybe there is an electrical charge in the air and using powder has an extra misfire explode, or if you misfire you automatically explode. But certainly there needs to be a loss-based risk to shooters. Tricky for bows, maybe they break their strings in the wet, every 1 you roll is a broken string and they can't shoot anymore, etc. but it's still not a loss of points...
Anti-cavalry and movement - prob worked well enough, but cavalry cost a lot of points. I spent 4 rounds moving carefully, round five marched into attacking position, lost 1 man, round six charged and lost another, so for just moving on open terrain and losing 60 points felt a bit harsh to lose 2 of 5 cavalry.
Well done Sam... HE RULE!!!
Fireball, yes it's powerful - and a HE army using it won the tournament.
But the other two HE armies only finished mid table. I myself had a win a draw and a loss, so for me fireball was 'fair'.
WIth FB I destroyed 3 units archers, 1 crossbows, one light cavalry, and an attached mage. I also had 5 miscasts and was very lucky I only took one wound and killed one spearman in total! I didn't suffer too much in reply... So probably my oponents would say FB too powerful. I would say HE mages cost 100 points and need an advantage for spending those points.
Brettonia 2+ armour save +ward save knights wiped my entire army. AND he never even charged... so that was just with swords!!! Yes I destroyed his peasant archers with FB, but 2 FBs and 55 rolls to hit (and I had re-rolls) only killed two knights in total...
Scenarios. You made it hard for three things:
Anti-Magic - I thought worked well enough (I had one miscast in that game, but four miscasts when there was no problem!)
Anti-shooting - -1 at long range didn't feel harsh enough. OK you might miss, but you don't blow up, so mages and cavalry risk getting killed in other scenarios, but shooters don't. Maybe there is an electrical charge in the air and using powder has an extra misfire explode, or if you misfire you automatically explode. But certainly there needs to be a loss-based risk to shooters. Tricky for bows, maybe they break their strings in the wet, every 1 you roll is a broken string and they can't shoot anymore, etc. but it's still not a loss of points...
Anti-cavalry and movement - prob worked well enough, but cavalry cost a lot of points. I spent 4 rounds moving carefully, round five marched into attacking position, lost 1 man, round six charged and lost another, so for just moving on open terrain and losing 60 points felt a bit harsh to lose 2 of 5 cavalry.
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