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Back to the Sumerian battlefield once again.  In this encounter, the same armies face off as in the earlier clash (Sumer Time) but this time, with a whole new cast of four players.  In today's fight, fought 02 July, Mark and Chris take command of the Blue Army (blue and black dice) while David and Tony pick up the reins to the Red Army (red and green dice).  Player commands are distributed as shown on the battle map below:

Let's drop right into the action to see how Tuesday's battle unfolded.

As the battle opens, both armies advance to close the distance to bring themselves within missile range.  With skirmishers screening both battle lines, missile fire is ineffective.  Tony leads his red battle car up on the right plugging the gap between his bowmen while David holds back both green and lugal battle cars.  Dust cloud trailing Tony's car shows that it is in motion.  Both armies anchor their lines upon the rocks on one flank and the oasis on the other.


To read the complete battle report, please visit, Still Sumer Time!

 

Forgive me but I must have missed what rules you're using
Jim

Jim, game utilized Basic Impetvs played on a hex grid.

That's a good idea, I always felt that Basic Impetus was an underused system

Quote from: Jim Webster on July 09, 2024, 07:38:19 AMThat's a good idea, I always felt that Basic Impetus was an underused system

Basic Impetvs (or Impetvs) seems underused to me too.  Why is that? To me, the core mechanisms are easy to grasp and provide a satisfying, dynamic, and interesting contest.   

Quote from: Jon Freitag on July 09, 2024, 02:10:45 PM

Quote from: Jim Webster on July 09, 2024, 07:38:19 AMThat's a good idea, I always felt that Basic Impetus was an underused system

Basic Impetvs (or Impetvs) seems underused to me too.  Why is that? To me, the core mechanisms are easy to grasp and provide a satisfying, dynamic, and interesting contest.   

I'll agree with that 

It needs to be seen more in Slingshot, with articles like " How to play Early Bronze Age using Basic Impetus".

Just saying....

Hmm...

What can I say?! I love the EBA and am interested in how others might game the period.

The Editor is desperately calling for Slingshot material, especially shortish 1-2 page articles.

Put the two together and it's win-win!

Sometimes, Slingshot seems overrun with material covering the same (and obviously the most popular and most documented) gaming & historical periods. The Bronze Age, let alone the EBA just doesn't get much of a look in, so Slinghsot has gaps that need some filling.

Hear hear...I'm all ears

I'm in there batting for you Holly. The Editor needs the material  I want to read the material, surely that's all anyone needs to know?

I appreciate the encouragement fellas!

I submitted a Sumerian battle report to Dave a couple of weeks ago.  I will give some thought to an article on playing EBA with BI and hexes.  It may be more of a peek at how I do it my way which may not have broad appeal or acceptance. 

please monsieur....

Quote from: Jon Freitag on October 30, 2024, 12:34:23 PMIt may be more of a peek at how I do it my way which may not have broad appeal or acceptance.

Jon,

Quite some time ago Slingshot published an article outlining how I approached 'legion vs phalanx' in my own home-grown rules. The result was complete radio silence, with not a hint of any apparent interest or response from the readership. How should I have interpreted that? I think the reality is that the overwhelming majority of the readership do not publicly respond to the material in Slingshot. It was as possible that a goodly number of readers were interested as it was that a majority were disinterested. We can never really know.

The world was of course a little different then with a far less widespread use of digital communication. More recently I have been fortunate that the Society has published my Blood Red Roses rules. They have apparently made very little traction if this forum is to be the judge. Of course our forum attracts only a very small proportion of our total membership, and of those who use it probably only a relative minority are interested in the medieval arena. So perhaps the apparent minimal interest here is not particularly surprising.

What was an overwhelming surprise for me, was the incredible interest shown by a seemingly unending procession of gamers at the Colours show wanting to ask questions about so many aspects of the rules. Where did that come from? You never can tell.

So, please do write about the Early Bronze Age for I, like Steven, would be happy to read about it. I suspect there are a goodly number of members who would also appreciate it, though we may never discover who they are.

Adrian.