Re: (Semi OT) Article on Wargamers

KH Ranitzsch wrote:

[Re: Dailami]
> >I don't know of any great victories but they were the favored army of
one
> >of the top players on the DBM list a few years ago, presumably he had
a 
> reason >for picking them.
>
>I would guess the reason for picking them was more their table-top
>performance than any historical achievements. In DBM, the link between
>competition successes of an army and their historical performance is
pretty
>weak (as, I suspect, is the case for most ancient/medieval wargames
rules).

Yep. That's pretty inevitable when you fight equal-points battles rather

than historical re-fights - the entire point with an equal-point battle
is 
that both sides should (ideally) have an equal chance of winning... but
in 
reality it is rather more common to have one side significantly larger
than 
the other :-/

Dailami troops seem to have fought as mercenaries all over the Muslim
parts 
of Asia, but their own states and dynasties appearently didn't last very
long.

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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