Thursday, 29 October 2015
Ancient army statistics
ANCIENT ARMIES
POLYBIAN ROMAN
TYPE WEAPON ARMOUR COMBAT MODIFIER
HASTATI PILA MEDIUM +1 ELITE
PRINCEPS PILA HEAVY +1 ELITE
TRIARII SPEAR HEAVY +1 ELITE
LEVES JAVELINS LIGHT NONE
VELITE JAVELINS/SHIELD LIGHT NONE
CAVALRY JAVELINS MEDIUM NONE
LIGHT HORSE JAVELINS LIGHT NONE
SELEUCID
TYPE WEAPON ARMOUR COMBAT MODIFIER
PHALANGITE PIKE HEAVY NONE
ARGYRASPID PIKE HEAVY +1 ELITE
THUREOPHOROI SPEAR/JAVELIN MEDIUM NONE
ARCHER BOW LIGHT NONE
GALATIAN JAVELIN MEDIUM NONE
COMPANIONS/AGEMA KONTOS HEAVY +1 ELITE
LINE CAVALRY SPEAR MEDIUM NONE
CATAPHRACT KONTOS HEAVY NONE
SKYTHIAN BOW LIGHT NONE
ELEPHANT PIKE/BOW/JAV. ELEPHANT NONE
SCYTHED CHARIOT --- HEAVY FIGHT ONCE
AUXILLIARIES AND MERCENARIES
TYPE WEAPON ARMOUR COMBAT MODIFIER
SPANISH SCUTARII PILA MEDIUM +1 ELITE
GALLIC WARRIOR JAVELIN MEDIUM NONE
CRETAN ARCHER BOW LIGHT +1 ELITE
THRACIAN PELTAST JAVELIN MEDIUM NONE
THRACIAN RHOMPHIA MEDIUM +1 ELITE
SLINGERS SLING LIGHT NONE
NUMIDIAN HORSE JAVELIN LIGHT NONE
INDIAN
TYPE WEAPON ARMOUR COMBAT MODIFIER
ARCHER LONGBOW MEDIUM NONE
JAVELINMAN JAVELIN MEDIUM NONE
SKIRMISHER JAVELIN LIGHT NONE
CAVALRY JAVELIN MEDIUM NONE
4 HORSE CHARIOT BOW/JAV. HEAVY NONE
2 HORSE CHARIOT JAVELIN OR BOW MEDIUM NONE
ELEPHANT BOW/JAV. ELEPHANT NONE
You will see that I simply classify pila armed troops as elite as I'm trying to keep the list of combat modifiers as small as possible.
There are many ancient troop types not yet on these lists but it should be easy to expand on them.
I intend to publish some explanation to the rules next.
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Hello Paul,
ReplyDeletei also do what you do in my rules with pila armed troops so do not feel an outlier! I also found that if I wanted to add rules for pila throwing, there are a bunch of heavy infantry types that also did similar things as well and it was going to be too hard to differentiate between pila, darts, small javelins etc of the different units, and I don't know enough history to do these troops types.
Thanks Shaun,
ReplyDeleteI've been on your blog and I'll be studying your ancient rules for ideas too.