Right, off tomorrow morning for 2 days playing Warhammer Ancient Battles at Mansfield for the grand tournament.
http://www.wabgt.co.uk/
the players are:
Andrew Kershaw Seleucid
Phil Vernon Seleucid
Martin Gibbins Late Imperial Roman
Justin Taylor Galatian
David Pearson Ancient Germans
David Johnson Early Imperial Roman
Tony Garry Republican Rome
Ed McDonald Early Imperial Roman
John Wall Early Imperial Roman
Kieth Tait Sassanid
Grahame Middleton Late Imperial Roman
Malcolm Barnfield Seleucid
Andrew Beer Dacian
Mike Whitaker British Tribes
Wayne Richards Sassanid
Bob Stradling Early Imperial Roman
My first choice of army was Seleucid but so many people had already chosen it, it looked like the standard 'power' army so I decided to switch to something else, Galatians.
The Galatian army is mainly made of fanatic infantry who are classified as Frenzied. That means that each figure fighting gets 2 attacks each and because of their mixed weapons, get to re-roll misses in the first round of every combat. A fearsome lot indeed. The other benefit of being Frenzied is that they ignore all Panic checks and are immune to Fear or Terror. That means that I will have an army that I can rely on not to break and run if their friends break or they are shot at. The only disadvantage is that I am forced to charge enemy if they get within my charge reach, which a cunning opponent will try to do. I will just have to be even more cunning.
My army will be:
General (mounted)
a unit of 3 chariots
2 units each of 8 noble cavalry
4 units each of 24 Fanatic infantry
3 units each of 18 Fanatic infantry
with the following Greek allies
a unit of 18 peltasts
unit of 11 javelinmen
2 units of archers 10 and 14 strong respectively
A total of 2799 points from the new Armies of Antiquity lists.
Good luck Justin!
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