Warhammer Ancient Battles?

I was looking at those new plastic models. The Romans look really cool. I might have to get me some.

They also have plastic Celts!They look pretty cool too

I see they have WAB rules and there is another set of rules from a different company called field of glory. Anyone know anything about the FoG?

Hurricane wrote:I see they have WAB rules and there is another set of rules from a different company called field of glory. Anyone know anything about the FoG?

I've heard of it but never seen it.Is it the same scale?

What scale would you guys like to use for warhammer ancients ? 15mm or the 28mm ?

I'd prefer 15mm as it's cheaper and it probably looks more epic.

The 28mm models look really nice but JC is right about the 15mm making it look more epic. But i am still leaning towards 28mm. Not sure tho

Was playing arround with army builder and making a list for Carthage during the 2nd Punic war, here it is so you guys can get an idea of what they look like.

HQ
Army General: 145 points
horse, hand weapon, light armor, shield
Army Standard: 80 points
horse, hand weapon, light armor, shield

TROOPS-common
Veteran Infantry: 395 points
20 soldiers, hand weapons, large shield, light armor, full command. Rules- stubborn, drilled, can fight in 2 ranks with spears when charging, 4+ SAVE
Trained Africans: 215 points
20 soldiers, hand weapon, large shield, light armor, full command. Rules-may fight with 2 ranks of spears when charging
Baleric Slingers: 175 points
15 slingers, skirmishers, bucklers, hand weapon, leader, muscician,
Oscan Hoplites: 180 points
15 hoplites, large shield, light armor, full command. Rules- Phalanx
Oscan Hoplites: 180 points
15 hoplites, large shield, light armor, full command. Rules- Phalanx
Oscan Warriors: 135 points
15 warriors, hand weapon, light armor, shield, full command. Rules-need one unit of oscan warriors per unit of Oscan hoplites.
Oscan Warriors: 135 points
15 warriors, hand weapon, light armor, shield, full command. Rules-need one unit of oscan warriors per unit of Oscan hoplites
CAVALRY
Gallic Cavalry: 225 points
10 cavalry, light armor, mixed weapons, shield, full command. Rules- Warband
Elefant: 120 points
2 crew, javelin, Malhout

This is a 2000 point list.

Have you seen Alexander the movie, that dude was a fucking faggot!

ImAShakiraholic wrote:Have you seen Alexander the movie, that dude was a fucking faggot!

that faggot conquered the biggest empire in history in like 7 years.

luis the young wrote:

ImAShakiraholic wrote:Have you seen Alexander the movie, that dude was a fucking faggot!

that faggot conquered the biggest empire in history in like 7 years.

Indeed he did. BTW, in those times, all the Greeks and Persians were fruits.

The Spartans were fruits and pedafiles as well.

SO, I say if we play this game it should be 15mm 'cause it's pretty cheap to get an army!

Sunshine got the Warhammer Ancients manuals in and some source books.

Two or three of the main book, and one of each the different time period or army, but not everyone though published.
It's like codex's.

He also got some 25/28mm figures in. 30 figures come in a box for about $35 I believe.

I still prefer 15mm. And if I were to get involved, thats the scale I would use.

My LotR campaign will use 10mm.

JerryB

i'll see if i get me the rule book, and the codex where Carthage comes out, either Carthage or Egypt. I would also much rather play 15mm, i have before and it looks a lot more epic.

can you play different era's or historical periords? Or are you confined to playing only armies from the same time period? Luis have you looked at fields of glory the civil war 15mm games? Which rule book are you getting the warhammer ancient battles or warmaster ancients?

Hurricane wrote:can you play different era's or historical periords? Or are you confined to playing only armies from the same time period? Luis have you looked at fields of glory the civil war 15mm games? Which rule book are you getting the warhammer ancient battles or warmaster ancients?

I played the Field of Glory game with 15mm , i had a HUGE confed army, but after not using them for 5 years, i traded them all recently for my Skaven army. I'll get whichever book we are going to be using, i used to have the Warhammer ancients, havent looked at warmaster ancients. I liked the warhammer ancient rules, it works the same with 15mm, 1 base is still one base, it just has 3 little guys on it vs 1 big guy

Hurricane wrote:can you play different era's or historical periords? Or are you confined to playing only armies from the same time period?

You can play armies from any period and geographic location against any others. They are "geared" to be more balanced against those from their same era/location, but you can do it regardless. Some armies will have more difficulty against others and some (the Indians with their long bows and elephants come to mind) will be a little over the top, but otherwise, it's very flexible. Might not make much sense historically for an early Roman army to be fighting Samurai, or Chinese, but it does make for an interesting game. Plus, with no magic and no magic items, it's much harder to get characters/units to be too incredibly over the top (the exception being the aforementioned Indians with lots of elephants and longbowmen). At any rate, the Carthage army shows up in the Armies of Antiquities (AoA) book, if memory serves. It can be played at 15mm, though it's designed to be 25-28mm (same size as Warhammer). Hope you guys get into it, as I think you'll find it much more enjoyable and balanced than either WHFB or 40K.

If people start gettign into it , so will i, i love history and is almost impossible to make a cheese army with them , unles you play an all Indian elefant army with longbows

Lou your not supposed to give people any ideas. Now look what you've gone and done! Can you smell the cheese?

I sorta perfer the 28mm but post a link of the 15mm figures that you are looking at.

Hurricane wrote:I sorta perfer the 28mm but post a link of the 15mm figures that you are looking at.

check them out. http://www.xyston.com/site_a/html/gallery.htm

i dont mind playing 28mm, the thing is that the company that Joel is selling the minis from ONLY makes Romans and Celts.

yah I saw that, and the other companies only seem to seel metal which is gonna make it pretty expensive.

yeah, thats the beauty of 15mm figs, you get a bunch for your money. I'll get the books from Joel , but i will prob buy the 15mm minis from this other place because i dont think Joel would start carrying them. I can get some pretty good deals for 15mm.
But if you wanna start a 28mm Roman army, i'll get me the 28mm celts, ive always liked horde armies!

It seems all the manufacturers are english...

check out these minis

http://www.essexminiatures.co.uk/gal_ank14.html