Hi folks,
A friend and I are new to WMA and played our first game the other night. He used Carthaginians and I used Britons. As such, we both has a mix of infantry, skirmishers and mounted skirmishers.
During the game our foot skirmishers met in the middle of the table and mine came off worse, taking enough damage to render them pretty ineffectual for the remainder of the game. What we noticed though was that my opponent’s skirmishers were able to stall my infantry for the remainder of the game while his infantry wandered off in another direction. Every time I charged, he evaded, meaning I could only advance about 10cm a turn. I was also able to do the same against his heavy cavalry. He would charge my mounted skirmishers and I would evade, meaning he could only advance very short distances.
From what we could tell, we were playing the skirmisher update rules correctly, but they just seemed to prevent an actual battle from taking place, resulting in a pretty boring game. Does anyone have any thoughts on how we can do things differently?
Craig