All Entries Tagged With: "cavalry"
Cavalry and Role-Playing Games
My post yesterday about archers and cavalry got me thinking about a major deficiency in most game systems. People who focus on mounted (horses or vehicles) combat get short shrift in most games. I started playing games many years ago with “Dungeons and Dragons.” I then moved on to other games, such as “Gamma World,” [...]
March 26, 2008 | trask | Comments 0
Archers vs Cavalry
I operated under an illusion for a long time. The illusion was that cavalry would overrun archers and scatter them to the four winds in the field. In my mind, 100 archers on one end of a large field could easily be defeated by 50 mounted knights. Since the cavalry have weight, intertia and barding/armor [...]
March 25, 2008 | trask | Comments 0