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Hi, Still unsure of the difference between the response moves evade and flee. In the rules it states that the player can elect to use these when contacted by the enemy. In units such as light cavalry with E2 and Flee, the E2 as an ability seems to be redundant because you can replicate E2 by just us...

I agree, Gabz, The rules are great- just a little more clarification needed on certain areas. I also played Warmaster for years, when it worked it was great fun and entertaining. However, the command rules, needing to roll dice to perform an action, were just too random and could be unnecessarily fr...

Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply. I too have played the systems you describe, and you're right they can be very frustrating to see your troops surrounded without the ability to respond. My idea was just a thought to not take this great strength away from the game, but just to throw out some ideas for d...

Played the new orc army on Friday. This is what I went for: 2 Generals 1 Hero General 1 Wizard 6 units of hordes arranged into 4 blocks of 6 stands 4 Mountain Orcs 3 archers 1 ballistae 2 wolf riders 3 heavy chariots 1 orc flyer Total 253 (Army size 250 but we always give or take a little on this) I...

Hi Gabz, I'm not sure about that one, any modifiers over one might make it just too hard for C class troops- although looking at the quality of archers across the armies the roll needed to hit varies and does not always follow that A class archers are better at shooting than B or even C class Englis...

Hi Gabz, I've also been interested in dwarfs too. I've got several warmaster armies- dwarfs, dark elves, orcs, empire, vampire counts and brettonian and have been looking at using them for hordes and heroes. With the addition of a couple of new units I've got the orcs ready. The dwarfs need a few mo...

Hi Gabz, I agree the artillery is tricky. I had a game last night playing orcs against high elves. I took orc ballistae to fire over the tops of my front line but found their slow move and firing rate a big problem. Then again it could also of been me trying to outshoot the elves with artillery of m...

As a further idea to point 7 raised above, concerning missile troops turning before firing. Perhaps shooters fire out of the front facing, as described for artillery fire arcs. If they need to turn to fire then they can do so but a +1 to hit penalty is applied eg Archers hitting on a 7+ now need 8+ ...

I've reread the rules and cross referenced the wording in the medieval and fantasy rules as the basic system is identical in both. My understanding of my previous points queried are: 1. I couldn't find any info on this situation and so made the following interpretation- hope this is correct. The una...

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