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Torrg
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« Reply #30 on: December 17, 2011, 06:44:50 pm »

How many of each command card should I print?

If you look at the command cards and the number in parenthesis, [example: "Arago!: (2)"], you would need two printed. This is how many are "army specific or faction specific". Command Cards 1 through 20 are generic for all Armies. 21 through 30 are specific to the army/faction.
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« Reply #31 on: December 18, 2011, 02:03:53 am »

I've been working on printing this faction out and I've hit a speed bump. I'm putting the command card deck together and I realized that since I don't own any decks(yet) I don't have access to the 20 base command card powers. I some one could post the text of the non-faction specific command cards I would really appreciate it. I plan on buying a decks soon, but because it is so close to Christmas I don't wan to accidentally buy someones gift.
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« Reply #32 on: December 18, 2011, 12:20:22 pm »

I've been working on printing this faction out and I've hit a speed bump. I'm putting the command card deck together and I realized that since I don't own any decks(yet) I don't have access to the 20 base command card powers. I some one could post the text of the non-faction specific command cards I would really appreciate it. I plan on buying a decks soon, but because it is so close to Christmas I don't wan to accidentally buy someones gift.
http://s1105.photobucket.com/albums/h359/leemie0704/Battleground%20fantasy%20warfare/generic%20cc/

something i typed up; not perfect but I used them for armies I didn't have the starter for yet; but now I have them all Smiley
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« Reply #33 on: December 18, 2011, 12:59:47 pm »

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I've been working on printing this faction out and I've hit a speed bump. I'm putting the command card deck together and I realized that since I don't own any decks(yet) I don't have access to the 20 base command card powers.

Dude, buy some stuff!
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« Reply #34 on: December 18, 2011, 01:24:37 pm »

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I've been working on printing this faction out and I've hit a speed bump. I'm putting the command card deck together and I realized that since I don't own any decks(yet) I don't have access to the 20 base command card powers.

Dude, buy some stuff!
I will. I just want to wait till after Christmas so I don't accidentally buy a deck someone bought for me.
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« Reply #35 on: December 19, 2011, 03:26:35 am »

I have just finished printing and sleeving my copy of this army. It looks great and I look forward to trying it out.
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« Reply #36 on: January 13, 2012, 08:09:51 pm »

Made a few tweaks to Command Cards based on playtesting:

Take No Prisoners was changed because it was a copy of Aspect of the Stag.

Hit & Run tweaked the wording a bit to hopefully make it take up less space.

The Catalan Vengeance dropped the Courage reroll to become just (+2)+0/+0, but now you can play additional cards on the unit.  So it'll pair really wel with cards like Hit & Run and Take No Prisoners.
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« Reply #37 on: March 18, 2012, 07:13:38 am »

This is a great faction. I think that the one problem I have is that jack-of-all trades is missing. But the calvary is awesome.

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« Reply #38 on: March 18, 2012, 07:14:40 am »

Ignore the computer jargon.
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« Reply #39 on: March 18, 2012, 12:32:04 pm »

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This is a great faction. I think that the one problem I have is that jack-of-all trades is missing. But the calvary is awesome.

That's not a problem, that's a design feature.   Grin

When I originally envisioned this faction, it was as a mercenary faction.  So it didn't really need a jack of all trades 200 pt swordsman type unit, as much because its okay for a Merc faction to be a little incomplete but also because there Monsters & Mercs faction has a decent Merc swordsmen unit in the Half-Orcs.

The other reason is, as I said, the faction is designed that way.  As a stand-alone faction it's meant to not have a 200 pt, jack of all trades unit.  A faction's theme comes from its weaknesses as much as it does from its strengths, and one of the themes of the Catalan Company is that they had this asymmetric feel to them.  They lacked any solid heavy infantry (or siege experience/equipment, but that's another story), and were literally cobbled together from the mercenaries sitting around in Sicily after the War of the Vespers.

Even the Almughavar unit embodies this idea.  Their offensive stats and Courage make them hit like a 300 point unit.  But their hit boxes and defensive stats are those of a 180 point unit.  Which means they come out to about a 240 point unit.  They hit hard and have no staying power, like crack medium infantry should.


Anyway, yeah, I'm more than aware of that situation, but that was intentional.  This isn't a conventional force that can put out some jack of all trades units and then have the cavalry and Almughavars work the flanks.  They have to hold the line with cheap Greek Spear/Sword (of real dubious quality) or with Mutaner's Garrison (decent Cge but you only can take 2 of them).  Their skirmishers also can step in that role to slow down an enemy opposite your junk units.
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