Recueil Byzantin

[Guest Cush]

J'ai cru comprendre un livre de listes Byzantines allait sortir, avez vous une date ?

Merci

Edited April 30, 2004 by Lyondri

[Guest CATHARUS prêtre de Nurgle]

ouh là, pas avant 2005 !

mais le codex chevalerie offre une vision réaliste des byzantins d'après la prise de Constantinople ...

[Lyondri]

Officiellement, ce sera pour cette année, en tout cas, c'est GW qui le dit (http://www.warhammer-historical.com/news.htm).

Future releases for Warhammer Ancient Battles include the following.

2004

Beyond the Golden Gate, Byzantium Armies and Enemies.

Divine Wind, Armies and Enemies of Japan and the Samurai.

2005

The Crusades.

Hundred Years War.

Ottoman Empire.

China.

Other Warhammer Historical releases during the next year or so include rules for the Wild West, Napoleonics and Twentieth Century warfare. Full details will be made available on our web site as we have them.

[Guest CATHARUS prêtre de Nurgle]

d'après mes espions ce serait à "Divine Wind" d'être sur les starting blocks ...

[Lyondri]

Perso j'en doute !

Rob Broom en était encore à la phase "le supplément Divine Wind avancera lorsque je pourrais prendre le temps de continuer à l'écrire" au début de l'année donc si on le voit avant l'année prochaine, ce sera à coup sur une grosse surprise...

[Lyondri]

Des infos bien fraîches sur le supplément byzantin ("Beyond the Golden Gate") :

BTGG will be released ´some time this summer´. I am afraid I can´t

give a real date, but we are still sorting out the last details. The text

is done and has been for a while now - but we/I need to paint the

last figures for the colour section. As the supplement includes 9

lists and 35+ list variants we need to do *a lot* of figures.

If you are looking to do 10th c. Byzantines you should have plenty

of choices in the new Gripping Beast range. I received a mail from

Darren last night and they have begun work on the cavalry and

lightly armoured infantry. Sounds promising....

Justin, BTGG will have proper Sassanids, but categorising them as

a true cataphract army wouldn´t be fair on the mighty fire worshippers.

They are far more shooty than steamrollery (?!) - if you want real

cataphracts you should probably wait for a real Parthian list to be

released.

Heine

> Hi there Heine, it was me (Olaf) with the new Byzantine Horde.

> Anyway- it's good to hear that it will be out soon (I can't wait). Can

> you give us a hint of what armies will be in there?

----> Sure. The supplement basically covers Byzantine armies

and their main adversaries from Justinian (527 AD) to the first fall of

Constantinople during the fourth Crusade (1204 AD).

There are three Byzantine lists in the supplement and six adversaries

lists (with very few exceptions all the adversaries of Byzantium are

covered). Adversary lists include Germanic Kingdoms (such as

the Italian Goths and Vandals), Sassanians, early Muslim

Caliphate armies and Rus. Apart from the lists there is a scenario

section, describing battles such as Dara (530), Yarmouk (636) and

Dorostolon (971).

Plus an optional rules section to spice up the old pitched battle

scenario and background stuff on Byzantine armament, tactics,

deployment, etc.

As the period covered in the supplement was very much an age of

cavalry warfare, the main issue has been to produce non-knightly

cavalry that is actually worth fielding. The solution has been to add

a little to both their punch and their maneuvrability.

> Can I also add the Crusader stuff to the recommended list?

> I have most of the GB stuff, and also all the currently released

> Crusader ones...

----> Crusaders, or Frankish knights, were allies of the Komnenian

Byzantines, so you will have the opportunity to field knightly cavalry

(ca. 1081-1176). Apart from that a Crusader supplement *is* in the

making.

Heine

Ca tombe bien, j'ai pu récupérer un petit paquet des nouveaux byzantins de Gripping Beast (http://www.grippingbeast.com) et ils sont vraiment très bien. De la bonne figurine !