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Earlier this week I announced my return to wargaming with Scourge of Princes. So far I've played the introductory game twice. I'm due to play a larger game next month and now I need to write a list.
As is my wont, I decided to write an army builder spreadsheet first. I planned to build [sic] on my experience writing similar spreadsheets for ADLG & DBA.
This post records my efforts and makes them freely available.
Would you believe it! I've actually played a wargame? My first in over twelve months. To be truthful I've actually played twice; on separate occasions too. This is a positive move.
I have a mate in town who's also a wargamer. He's a lapsed competition gamer who played DBM, DBMM & MEG so we have a lot in common. In late summer he lent me his copy of Scourge of Princes by Sam Mustafa to see if I fancied a game.
In next to no time, I was hooked. Not least because it gives me an opportunity to use my Renaissance armies, which I haven't used since I stopped playing FOGR in 2017.
These complete the commanders for my "fantasy" Byzantine army for Art de la Guerre (ADLG). At 200 points each army is allowed three commanders. I finished two mounted commanders early last month, so I now have four commanders: one spare in case I ever play a 300 point game (very unlikely).
My intention is to use these for the Byzantine armies of Justinian to Nikephoros a five-hundred year span marked by frequent changes in arms and armour. Accordingly, I’ve opted for models whose equipment is indicative rather than strictly historically accurate. Even so, I’m reasonably confident that each figure will be plausible for at least some point within that period!
