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Warmaster => [WM] Warmaster Fantasy Rules Questions => Topic started by: Dobbsy on March 14, 2013, 11:40:46 PM

Title: Where to place characters?
Post by: Dobbsy on March 14, 2013, 11:40:46 PM

I would just like to confirm.....

Once set up is complete you get to place characters. Do they have to be placed inside the deployment area or can they be placed outside in front of your troops?

I am assuming they must be placed inside the DZ.

Cheers all!

Title: Re: Where to place characters?
Post by: jchaos79 on March 15, 2013, 12:12:46 AM

We play placing the character inside de deployment zone. I could see that is the way it is.

Title: Re: Where to place characters?
Post by: Dave on March 15, 2013, 03:40:40 AM

In the DZ here, but I always seem to forget I'll have to and have no good place to put them.

Title: Re: Where to place characters?
Post by: Lex on March 19, 2013, 09:02:04 AM

I actually tend to place my characters first, to determine the forward edge of my deployment zone....

Title: Re: Where to place characters?
Post by: wmchaos2000 on May 19, 2013, 10:57:27 PM

We deploy the armies first, hidden or alternating, then deploy characters simulantiously.
All in deployment zone.
We use dices to "see" the limits of the deployment zone.
About alternating deployment, has anyone a good strategy to do that in a fair way?
Chaos 17 deploys, Undead 29...
Alternating 1 by 1 just dont "cut it".

Title: Re: Where to place characters?
Post by: Big Red on May 20, 2013, 12:13:11 PM

If you are alternating and you have deployed your army before your opponent - he has a few units to go, even if he started deploying first due to the higher unit count - you could always get a "bonus" to the dice role when seeing who goes first?

Title: Re: Where to place characters?
Post by: wmchaos2000 on May 20, 2013, 11:04:08 PM

Sure.
But for obvious reasons, the army with the highest number of units will definately save the toughest for last, when the lower number army already has been forced to reveal his thoughest units. When we tried this and afterwards concluded the game, we could trace the trail of winning events/combats back to the advantage of late deploys.
We tried deploying brigade by brigade, which seemed pretty balanced. If one army wants to have the last deploys, he has to divide the whole army into smaller brigades and thereby forcing more chain of orders in turn one.
Last years we have only used hidden deploys, which sometimes end up in a swirling hunt for having the upper hand in the combats. Pretty unrealistic.

Dobbsy, sorry for hi-jacking your thread. Just got inspired.  :P

Title: Re: Characters & Army Deployment
Post by: honestmistake on May 28, 2013, 02:38:02 PM

We play that Characters must be in the deployment zone.
For Army placement our usual tactic is that one player places roughly half their army points value  (inc charcaters) then the other places their whole army before the 1st player places the rest of their force... it's quick but still offers scope for flexibility and tactics.

Title: Re: Where to place characters?
Post by: Stormwind on May 28, 2013, 05:26:57 PM

We would play with them definitely within the deployment zone.