Sadly Tony Garry has been taken ill and can't attend. I have therefore dropped out to keep numbers even. The first round draw is as follows: Table Player Army Player Army 1 Malcolm Barnfield Pontic v Mark Roberts Persian 2 Aitch Parker German v Dave Johnson EIR 3 Chris Hale Seleucid v Andy Sherwell ...

I look forward to the results of the discussions and of course to seeing what happens when you clever types get to grips with these proposed changes.

;) Well spotted Bob! The book contains revised and extended armies for the wars of Alexander and his Successors down to the arrival of the Romans (who are dealt with in a later volume). There are some additional period rules, such as a wedge rule for cavalry. There are plenty of scenarios, some for ...

Arcs of vision have not changed, other than the way the "command point" at centre front views things. Bases would still check for own visibility as in your diagram. Yo are correct re shooting at unit B (same diagram as Bob's actually).

All lists now checked and correct, there are 20 players. Most popular army is Seleucid (4) followed by Pontic (3) and EIR (3). In all there are 9 pike armies, 2 cataphract armies and 3 "barbarian" armies in the mix. The rest are 1 Chinese, 4 Roman and 1 Persian.

Neither. Arc of vision at the centre point of the unit. It's the bloke saying "loose!" that we are concerned with.

Yes all those are correct.

As all bases now shoot at all targets, the option to switch to a secondary target no longer exists.
The factors relating to the shooting attempt are not relevant to target selection
An elephant is still visible over intervening troops

Here is the updated event pack

There will be an extra rule change tested at the event, as follows: A unit may only shoot if its centre front can see the target unit. All missile-armed bases in the unit will then shoot even if some bases cannot see the target. A unit’s entire frontage must be able to see the entire target for shoo...