The Battle for {Insert Name Here}

[Twoy]

Oops. I did not mark those two units as ranged in my notes, but I see they are in your original post.

Well, I will look through the rest of the posts. I'm still not sure about the concept of allowing the archers to get in shots at units that are not attacking them. What's good for the goose might be even better for the gander. In this case, the gander is the guy who is defending his capital city.

[Nihila]

Well, I will look through the rest of the posts. I'm still not sure about the concept of allowing the archers to get in shots at units that are not attacking them. What's good for the goose might be even better for the gander. In this case, the gander is the guy who is defending his capital city.

Effectively, this just allows some units to ignore the rule about "fliers and ranged must engage ranged stacks first," but at a high cost. As long as fliers or ranged units engage at least one ranged stack in a hex, they receive no extra retaliation.

So, example time. A stack of Decrypted Uniepegataurs attack a hex with 3 stacks of Faun Archers. The Faun Archers that the Uniepegataurs attack--and only the Faun Archers that the Uniepegataurs attack--get their hitsies in first. Then, the Uniepegs attack that stack. The Uniepegataurs only take damage from one stack.

If there was also a stack of Thunder Bats, and the Uniepegataurs engaged those, the Uniepegataurs would be attacked 3 times before engaging the Thunder Bats, almost certainly dusting the entire stack of Unies before even scratching the bats.

Edit: If the ranged units have already been engaged, they do not engage the fliers or ranged units, as per the normal rules. Think of them as focused on the troops that attacked them, rather than the archers or dwagons attacking the infantry around them. If I need to explain this later, I will add another example.

[Twoy]

So...moving as 1 strong column is a stupid idea, because it doesn't matter at all if we are together or seperate.

I don't agree with this statement. If your units are scattered around the map, the best units to engage the surviving attackers might be too far away to track them down and kill them.

Right now, we don't know exactly where the stack of 5 dwagons is, but if they are close enough to our main forces, we can croak them all.

[zilfallon]

So...moving as 1 strong column is a stupid idea, because it doesn't matter at all if we are together or seperate.

I don't agree with this statement. If your units are scattered around the map, the best units to engage the surviving attackers might be too far away to track them down and kill them.

Right now, we don't know exactly where the stack of 5 dwagons is, but if they are close enough to our main forces, we can croak them all.

After Nihila answered my questions, I don't agree with that statement either. But even if we aren't scattered too much, we should have more than 1 columns, each consisting of archers,infantry and fliers. And...we just lost all our archers. So, our pop points should be used for,

1)Commanders for Nawnia, naturally.
2)Archers
3)A few more scouts

[Twoy]

I agree with commanders, archers and scouts.

Here is the point layout for everyone to spend:
Narnia: 40+6 from last turn.
Thundermen: 40+2 from last turn.
Avewnus: 40+3 from last turn.
Generica: 80+5 from last turn.

High King Peter sends a thinkagram to CPT-GEN Genericus:
CPT-GEN Genericus, Please pop only archers this Turn as I will be sending King Edmund to the battle, and he can handle the base camp for a couple of turns while we build up enough Nawnian forces for him to lead a stack into battle.

[Twoy]

Nawnia Turn 2 unit pop:
King Edmund
Move: 3
Hits: 5
Att: 8 Ranged
Def: 5
Special: Lvl (Need a GM roll here)
Cost: 45

[Siralus]

The Thundermen of Thunderia pop: -

1 Thunder bat (22)
1 Thunder infantry (13)
35 points spent, 7 remaining.

[Nihila]

Edmund is still a Level 3, with 3 XP points. I'll let him keep his TBfGB XP. I'll be nice here, given that I killed his siblings. Though in Nawnia, that might be a rather temporary thing...

[zilfallon]

(Another thinkagram is sent by Agrach:)

-Hmm, King Edmund! So you are the replacement chief warlord from Nawnia? Then, "Chief", what do you want summoned, from Avewnus? We can summon 3 imps or 2 Ewinyes. Of course, I'll give those Ewinyes under your direct command, to stack with other archers, if you choose them. Also, please be careful, It would be sad for Nawnia to lose 3 warlords in first 2 turns. And Nawnia required direct intervention of their High King to coordinate? I was not aware that this battle was this important for Nawnia.


(((A reminder:

Imp: Move 5, Hits 1, Attack 1, Defence 1 + Scout >> 14 each
Ewinyes: Move 2, Hits 4, Attack 6, Defence 2 + Ranged >> 16 each)))

Edit: Twoy, you typed your factions name wrong. What is Narnia? Earth has stupid names for things

[Twoy]

I'll give you my 1 pop point left and you can pop 2 Imps and an Ewinyes.

[zilfallon]

-Very well. Summoning is complete. Ewinyes is yours to command. Imps are on stand-by at base hex, ready for scouting.

Avewnus pops 2 Imps and 1 Ewinyes

[Crovius]

So are flyiers with ranged Fliers AND Archers? Cause they seem to be using the best rules of both and worst ruels of neither: the weakness to infantry archers face is negated, and the disadvantage from ranged is negated because they can kill the target ranged unit first. Th eonly counter for Flying Archers eems to be flying archers, and then it's all down to who kills the other first. In other words, flying archers are horribly broken. Ranged units should see their enemy incoming and be able to retaliate. And if I have 100 stacks of ranged ina hex and 1 stack of fliers with my commander and you swoop in to swat him out fo the sky, my archers should have the common sense to fill the airspace you're occupying with arrows, Ranged Flier or not. A Ranged unit should ALWAYS get a chance to fight back. First strike is a cheap move that White players from Magic: The Gathering use (and that system involves Endurance so the best way to killa first striek is to be tough enough to take the first hit and then smack him back.)

End Rant

Sorry, just voicing all of this because honestly number wise what those dwagons did, well, if this was a computer game anyoen rating it would have called the AI out for being a Cheating Bastard.

[Nihila]

So are flyiers with ranged Fliers AND Archers? Cause they seem to be using the best rules of both and worst ruels of neither: the weakness to infantry archers face is negated, and the disadvantage from ranged is negated because they can kill the target ranged unit first. Th eonly counter for Flying Archers eems to be flying archers, and then it's all down to who kills the other first. In other words, flying archers are horribly broken. Ranged units should see their enemy incoming and be able to retaliate. And if I have 100 stacks of ranged ina hex and 1 stack of fliers with my commander and you swoop in to swat him out fo the sky, my archers should have the common sense to fill the airspace you're occupying with arrows, Ranged Flier or not. A Ranged unit should ALWAYS get a chance to fight back. First strike is a cheap move that White players from Magic: The Gathering use (and that system involves Endurance so the best way to killa first striek is to be tough enough to take the first hit and then smack him back.)

Okay, you make a good point. Maybe if Ground Archers are defending against Flying Archers, the Ground Archers get first strike. I'll make that a rule, as well. It doesn't affect the most recent combat, though, where Ground fought Ground and Flying fought Flying.

Sorry, just voicing all of this because honestly number wise what those dwagons did, well, if this was a computer game anyoen rating it would have called the AI out for being a Cheating Bastard.

And, they lost a Dwagon and the high level Warlord. Full disclosure: my highest level Warlord now is a 2. And Dwagons are so cost-ineffective, I can pop 2 a turn, against 3 Griffon Riders a turn if all points go to Nawnia. In a war of attrition in the skies, I lose.

Edit: Basic Division is beyond me, edited with the aid of a calculator.

[LTDave]

Pop 3 Archers at Base Camp. Leaving the Generics with 4 Archers at Camp.
(4 points remaining)

I imagine it is our turn - King Edmund {the redeemed}, where would you like our Outriders to scout, so that we may cwoak that wascally dwagon?

[LTDave]

Full disclosure: my highest level Warlord now is a 2. And Dwagons are so cost-ineffective, I can pop 2 a turn, against 3 Griffon Riders a turn if all points go to Nawnia. In a war of attrition in the skies, I lose.

Don't give away too much, Nihila - ignore the ranting. It makes life so much more entertaining.

[WaterMonkey314]

LTDave, how come we never realized there was an issue here with ranged fliers? Was it just because you never used THAT many of them?

[Sihoiba]

LTDave, how come we never realized there was an issue here with ranged fliers? Was it just because you never used THAT many of them?

The MCC had an entire attack wing (stack) of ranged fliers, it's just GB had a lot of high defence units, and generally hitting and staying to be hit back for the XP was deemed more valuable than hit and run attacks.

[Nihila]

The Thundermen of Thunderia pop: -

1 Thunder bat (22)
1 Thunder infantry (13)
35 points spent, 7 remaining.

Siralus, 1 Thunder Bat costs 11. 2 Thunder Bats cost 22. I'll assume you meant to pop 2 until further notice.

Don't give away too much, Nihila - ignore the ranting. It makes life so much more entertaining.

But you don't know if I meant before or after I popped new units... It wouldn't be a lie, per se. I could have 6 Level 5 Warlords now, for all you know. Or I might not have popped any new Warlords. But you don't know. What you know is that at some point, I had a Level 2 Warlord as my highest leveled Warlord. And that I got the same number of pop points as you. And that I'm following roughly the same rules as you, without Scouts.

[WaterMonkey314]

The Thundermen of Thunderia pop: -

1 Thunder bat (22)
1 Thunder infantry (13)
35 points spent, 7 remaining.

Siralus, 1 Thunder Bat costs 11. 2 Thunder Bats cost 22. I'll assume you meant to pop 2 until further notice.

Don't give away too much, Nihila - ignore the ranting. It makes life so much more entertaining.

But you don't know if I meant before or after I popped new units... It wouldn't be a lie, per se. I could have 6 Level 5 Warlords now, for all you know. Or I might not have popped any new Warlords. But you don't know. What you know is that at some point, I had a Level 2 Warlord as my highest leveled Warlord. And that I got the same number of pop points as you. And that I'm following roughly the same rules as you, without Scouts.

Er... Nihila, does that mean that you're rolling for your new commanders' levels? Are we supposed to do it that way?

[Nihila]

Er... Nihila, does that mean that you're rolling for your new commanders' levels? Are we supposed to do it that way?

Well, technically, I'm not. They just pop at Level 1. But I've never let facts get in the way of intimidation. Presumably they would have realized that at some point, but it would have been nice to keep the suspense going for longer...

Also, just so that this post has a purpose, remember that all units pop at the end of the Scout Phase, not the beginning. At least I think that's how we did it.