Re: [DS] Hidden Units and Recon by Fire
From: Roger Books <books@j...>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:20:34 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [DS] Hidden Units and Recon by Fire
On 2-Apr-02 at 21:27, John Atkinson (johnmatkinson@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Stupidly popular, but some serious flaws in the way
> they think. Of course, when your goal is to produce a
> tournament ruleset so that you fight ancient Egyptians
> against medieval Koreans (who happen to have Aztec
> allies). Armies line up from one side of the table to
> the other, with no room for flanking maneuvers or any
> sort of more complex thinking than "Run forward and
> die." You can't tell the difference between Viking
> raiders and Roman Legions.
That's odd, the DBA rules I just picked up specify which
armies may fight. They all look like historical matchups.
They dispense with this in tournaments?