One of the "more movement" ideas that came along for Light troops was a free
recon - they couldn't move twice as far but they wandered a bit more in the 2
weeks to provide this extra intel while the Heavies slugged it down the trail
until hitting camp.
But as Ed noted (did anyone check out Laurences 2nd Edition site since..?),
there's no "tweeking" but only an overhaul/replacement. If Ernie can get 25 or
so players to voluntarily avoid the 400 and 408 orders without metals, all the
power to him, sorry, my slate of games is over-full again...sigh...
Brad
From: Thomas Norrish <thomas_norrish@yahoo.com.au>
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, September 1, 2010 9:21:34 PM
Subject: Re: Vedr. [mepbmlist] Making Light Troops More Useful -- AKA Heavy
Means Metal!
A light infantry army of Kenyan long distance sprinters...? personally I think
it isnt a good idea. I cant think of any historical examples of a
commander deliberatley forming a whole army of only lightly armed foot
troops and it doesnt server any gameplay benefit that isnt already fulfilled by
CAVALRY.
I think people would just like a bit more logic to the heavy/light distinction
and a meaningful reason to recruit the light troops, movement isnt a good
solution but a suggestion like Ernie's tying it to PopC/Metal Production is a
good idea. Or even as Sverre suggested just simply changing the wording on our
resultsheet. I always find it immersion breaking when I read about my mighty
army of HI with wooden swords and get a mental image of some poor bastards
fighting with bamboo sticks.
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From: "nypdblue19@aol.com" <nypdblue19@aol.com>
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 2 September, 2010 8:07:09 AM
Subject: Re: Vedr. [mepbmlist] Making Light Troops More Useful -- AKA Heavy
Means Metal!
Instead of going the metal way -- as to me it would be to costly for nations to
buy metals and then set up recruiting for this -- I say go the movement way --
lighter troops should be able to move farther then heavy troops -- for example
-- an army of just HI with no food moving through plains move through those
hexes at 4 -- thus only moving 3 hexes -- how about if an army of just light
infantry with no food moved at 3 or even half of the Hi of 2 -- then would be
able to move 4 hexes at 3 or 7 hexes at 2. Throw a high commander on this army
and you got a nice pop center threat jumping around.
Just food for thought.
Mike
From: Sverre Rusten <sverreme@yahoo.no>
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, Sep 1, 2010 10:49 am
Subject: Vedr. [mepbmlist] Making Light Troops More Useful -- AKA Heavy Means
Metal!
I have allways concidered metalweapon, steel armor aso as weapon/armor IMPROVED
wirh steel/bronze. "Wood"-weapon the same. Not improved at all. Just stadard
weapon for the trooptype.
I think we just need to change the messages we are receiving in our turns. So
that "Wood"weapon are called "standard" or "not improved" or something.
Regarding light troops. I think it would be cool if PCs randomly changed what
kind of trooptypes it is possibble to recruit at any time, but so that it will
allways be possibble to recruit cavallery(LC or HC) and some non-cavallery-types
at any PC. Having 2-4 choices at any time.
Sverre
The basic idea is that, in reality, since the bronze age, no heavy troops ever
really were recruited that didn't have at least some metal as part of their
armor -- and pretty much all weapons were at least partly metal, most effective
weapons were mostly metal.
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