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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Teutoburg Forest 9AD – 11th September – game update
I’ve had a change of heart on this game. Rather than invent the wheel, I’ll stick more closely with the Warlord games Germania. Rather than 4 parallel games I’ll just focus on the ambush from the woods, described as –
“Lucius Eggius harrassed by the Bructeri passing Kalkriese Berg. Followed by the subsequent ambush by Arminius and the Chercusci.”
I’ll use the ‘Disaster in Teutoburger Wald’ scenario in the Germania book. Its pretty much what I have planned anyway. It’s the first part of the battle. If it’s a success then we can continue with the other parts of the battle.
So to amass the troops I need to get some commitment for folks to bring the troops.
Germans
For the German I plan to use a ‘standard sized’ units of 12 bases of DBM Warband. 3×4 (perhaps dropping to 9 if figures are a problem)
There needs to be 3 command , each of 3 ‘divisions’. A German command being
Command Division | Bases | no of units | total bases |
Cavalry | 6 | 1 | 6 |
Warband | 12 | 3 | 36 |
Light infantry bow | 6 | 1 | 6 |
48 | |||
German Division #1 | Bases | no of units | total bases |
Warband | 12 | 3 | 36 |
Light infantry javelin | 6 | 1 | 6 |
42 | |||
German Division #2 | Bases | no of units | total bases |
Warband | 12 | 3 | 36 |
Light infantry javelin | 6 | 1 | 6 |
42 |
So just over 100 bases of warriors per command (and there are three commands 2 Chercusci and 1 Bructeri).
I have over 100 stands of warriors, and I believe that Steve, Pete and Dene all have some (so we should be OK I’d say)
Romans (which may be more of a sticking point)
3 command each of 4 ‘divisions’ –
Command Division | Bases | no of units | total bases |
Veteran Legion | 6 | 1 | 6 |
Legion | 6 | 1 | 6 |
Raw Legion | 6 | 2 | 12 |
Light Artillery | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Auxiliary Cavalry | 6 | 1 | 6 |
31 | |||
Romans Legion #1 | Bases | no of units | total bases |
Legion | 6 | 3 | 18 |
18 | |||
Romans Legion #2 | Bases | no of units | total bases |
Legion | 6 | 3 | 18 |
18 | |||
Romans Bodyguard | Bases | no of units | total bases |
Infantry Archers | 6 | 1 | 6 |
6 |
We’d need over 100 bases of legionaries (can we do that?) I might have about 20~
We’ll also need 6 sets of baggage wagons and 6 sets of ‘civilians’
This is aimed for about 10-12 participants if we can manage it. If not we can scale it back. I’ll come round Thu for commitment
Any thoughts?
New ‘Across a Deadly Field’ ACW Rules
These are new rules written by John Hill (he of Johnny Reb and Squad Leader fame) that are going to be published by Osprey on 20th of August for £27.99 but it seems someone at Amazon has made a booboo as they are selling the Kindle version already for £6.79…