Polls are a cool move, I haven't got to grips with these yet. On different games, if players are depending on other versions one assumes they will be in an FTF...
... There was a classic along these lines called "Barbarian, Kingdom, & Empire", in which barbarian tribes could behave as you describe until they grew too...
... I might be being petty here, but barbarian in the classic sense means "people who have agriculture but not cities". (Or, "people who don't speak Greek" but...
... Vinci is really a quite clevaer "German game"-style adaption of BKE. But it does not resemble the distinct feeling of the three BKE stages (which are -...
Yes, Vinci feels very abstract, almost divorced from any reality (an impression I get about many Euro games). I'd like to get somewhere between Vince and 7...
... Just barbarian and civilised. Unless you need a "decadent" third stage, but there may be other ways to implement that. You probably want to distinguish...
If we're dealing with the "Dark Ages", then Barbarians actually built rather larger "empires" than the Christian feudal societies. Consider the conquests of...
It depends what you mean by large. They certainly look big on a map, but what kind of empire you get from the steppe? Luke ... From: "theblackprussian"...
... I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you criticising the barbarian vs kingdom vs empire division? Or the savage vs barbarian vs civilised division? I...
... In Europa (which, remember, I've only played once, and over a year ago), there are steppe, forest, and desert barbarians. Each gets a different economic...
... But a smaller fraction of the settled people are trained fighters. Barbarian nomads usually trained fighting to protect their herds from cattle raiders,...
Absolutely. There were only something like 15,000 Vandal warriors, but they took N Africa from the Romans. I often think that if the Romans had been able to...
... This is at least superficially reasonable. If I were using this paradigm I'd be tempted to give them military advantages as well: the Berber's ejected the...
... Can you have a volunteer heavy cavalry arm? Is that basically what a feudal European army is? Maybe I'm unclear in what sense you mean "volunteer". ...
... I wouldn’t classify medieval feudal armies as volunteers. They were bound by strict laws of homage to serve their lords (for 40 days and 40 nights). ...
... "Volunteer" in the sense that the Romans actually asked for people to volunteer (and were rarely disappointed), but there were property qualifications (and...
Evidently what happened was that the small farmers who were the backbone of the Republic slowly lost their land to large landholders who used slaves (obtained...
... I think it's easy enough to subsume the military advantage in the number of armies available. Barbarians using the Brit system keep producing more armies....
... I don't think the Romans could have maintained an army of heavy cavalry this way. Without an army of heavy cavalry, I doubt they could have survived the...
Is there any definite date when the great unwashed get to lay their hands on this long awaited second edition? I keep promising the other guys in the group...
... I was wondering the same. The FFG website still says that it is delayed until the end of January and should be in shops early February (which is now). ...
... to ... cavalry ... their ... The state can pay for the horses and equipment and still maintain a more-or-less volunteer army. The W. Roman cavalry never...
I was wondering how far you can take the "overpopulation" mechanic as a cause of barbarian movements. Did the Vikings take to conquest because they had...
Just spoke on the phone with Fantasy Flight. Britannia is being assembled as we speak in their warehouse. It will begin shipping late next week if all goes...
"Overpopulation" doesn't seem to be mentioned in relation to barbarian movements nowadays. The barbars that came into the late Empire wanted to participate in...
There's a tendancy to analyse an historic victory like Adrianople to discover in it the tectonic trends of history. Valens had been stretched for some years...
