Over on Flash of Steel, Troy Goodfellow has raised some interesting questions in a response to the previous post. I shall have to pass over most of the discussion for another time, as it would involve a rather more detailed discussion of the game’s character model than would be useful…
The effect of commanders on battles in the ancient world is the subject of many books and varied opinions. In Imperium, I have preferred to go with the idea that the overall commander significantly affected the outcome of the battles. Thus, who commands the battle should have an effect on…
Determining how to model forces across the board in this kind of game is not a trivial matter. Standardized units did not exist; not even within the same state, so just settling on a unit size becomes a problem. This is closely followed by the issues of determining unit factors,…
Classical-era ancient warfare is hard to get right; far harder, in my opinion, than any other wargaming period. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why, but it may be – I suppose – because ancient warfare is asymmetric in several dimensions. The usual speed (cavalry) – strength (infantry) – firepower (missiles)…
I really dislike historical computer games. Well, let me qualify that: I really dislike the dodgy history that so easily gets propagated by these games. I realize that this is not a completely PC view to have, but I can’t help getting slightly irritated whenever I read yet another post…
I have been somewhat amiss in not pointing this out earlier, but if you enjoy historical games on the ancient world (as I do, and I assume you do, given your presence here), then you really mustn’t miss Troy Goodfellow’s excellent series of blog posts: A History of the Ancient…