Warband historical

[Luddite]

Good thinking Jim, although regenerate doesn't work close up to the enemy.

I guess an understand what 'Maniple' actually did in battle will help.   

[JimLeCat]

Ummm... That's not what the rules say? The only restrictions on Regenerate are not routing and no morale loss in the current turn.

Now, I agree that these are conditions that tend to be broken near enemy units, so there is a correlation with it not working near the enemy, but correlation is not causation... 

[Luddite]

Ummm... That's not what the rules say? The only restrictions on Regenerate are not routing and no morale loss in the current turn.

Now, I agree that these are conditions that tend to be broken near enemy units, so there is a correlation with it not working near the enemy, but correlation is not causation... 

Ah yes of course.  I was thinking about CP expenditure.   Doh!

[AndyT]

Just reviving this topic. Has anyone seen Luddite's Warband Historical battle report?

http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/warband-historical-playtest-game-late.html

I'm really looking forward to an historical version.

[Bodvoc]

Certainly looks good.

[Bloodaxe]

Just reviving this topic. Has anyone seen Luddite's Warband Historical battle report?

http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/warband-historical-playtest-game-late.html

I'm really looking forward to an historical version.

Thanks! I missed this.
Great stuff.  I'd love to see a Historic Warband. It would be even better if fantasy armies could fight historical armies.

[Kiwidave]

A friend and I have had a go using Warband for Dark Ages - Rus (Dragon Men with magic) v Vikings (or Saxons - I can't remember as it was a while ago). It worked OK - the lists I came up with need a tweak or two, and I had to guess the points value of a few units. It has promise

If any is interested in what I came up with let me know and I'll send the lists (Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Dane)

[Bodvoc]

I would like to see your lists please, if you could PM me with them?
Thanks

[Bloodaxe]

By all the Dice Gods, please let the army lists work with the current Pendraken miniatures range.
I hate when there are lists/rules for a unit and no miniature available.

This would be awesome if it could work with fantasy. Romans fight Orcs.  Carthage vs. the Undead.

[AndyT]

I guess thats one reason why publication of Warband Historical is quite some time away. The Pendraken ancient figure range will need to expand and fill some gaps in order to match whatever armies are in the army lists.

[Leon]

Yep, we'll need to replace and expand a lot of the ancient ranges before we look at publishing these, which is something we're hoping to do once Phil's finished the Warband sculpting.  We want to completely revamp the Greeks/Persians, replace the Dacians and Sassanids, and add some new ranges as well.  With those done we'll probably look at revamping the Dark Age stuff as well, as those should be reasonably quick jobs.

[Bodvoc]

Well KiwiDave kindly sent me his Dark Age lists which are very good. I have tentatively started work on a Norman List to complete those he has done. As for publishing a Warband Historical, Pendraken already do quite a range of Ancients, Dark Ages and Medieval armies. My suggestion would be to put the (12?) most popular armylists (in matched eras?) in the book and then add variety with free to download extra armylists on the website? Players could even share their own lists on this forum thus providing whatever period fix we all need. Otherwise it would be a very thick set of rules. However if Pendraken felt they needed to expand their ancients ranges I would not complain even though it would cost me a lot of money!

[Bloodaxe]

Great ideas.  Some play test rules & lists that could be put on the forum and tried by the forum members.
12 lists in the main book. Maybe an Army book with the other historical lists.
Something that would help new players that aren't history buffs, and may also help Pendraken miniatures sales- pendraken figure codes with army lists.

[Bloodaxe]

I have a Norse/Vikings list somewhere. I'm not sure if I ever got around to posting it here. I have to find it, or recreate it.

[Tawa]

What I would say is...they certainly do.

A historical version may be under development at the moment.   

Well, then. This sounds interesting