Moving & Shooting - The Verdict

IN most wargaming rules a player first moves his units, then resolves missile shooting, followed by melees, and finally morale tests, or a sequence like that.

But for the Battle of Palm Hill I adapted an idea from Bob Cordery's Portable Wargame rules in which a single unit performs all the above functions, or at least as many of them as it is able to and wants to perform, before another unit does likewise, and so on until the whole army has had its turn.

I think this makes for more interesting combat action, and gives a more realistic feel.

Accordingly I will keep this mechanism for future battles fought under Neil Thomas's biblical rules from Ancient & Medieval Wargaming.

We, ie my regular opponent and I, felt it was one of the best things when we tried Cordery's ancient rules in our On The Table battle.

Egyptians faced off against Assyrians using a gridded battlefield in On The Table