Heroes Of Battle

[Azrai]

Does anybody have the new "Heroes of Battle" Sourcebook from WoC? Is
there something useful for a Birthright Campaign?

The preview looks interesting.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=produ...ndacc/860900000 (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/860900000)

[Thomas_Percy]

I'm reading it right now.
It's an interesting (maybe "must be") book for a BIRTHRIGHT fans.
Some rules from HoB can be (maybe "should be") used in BIRTHRIGHT battlesystem, eg. 200 ft. battlefield square (distance that armored soldier can move in a one minute).

HoB is compatibile with Miniatures.

I'll update our upcoming "Strongholds" pdf series to be compatibile with HoB.

[irdeggman]

Yeah I read it.

Could be good, but IMO it is pretty incomplete as far as battles go. I was disappointed and expected more.

There is some good info for siege engines and the like, but the battle system seems to rely on the Minatures Handbook as far as I can tell (that is a book I don't have though).

The size of units also leaves something to be desired.

Units folow the squad = 10 plus a corporal, platoon = 2 or more squads, etc.

But nothing really says how to handle things at the squad level. It appears (I say only appears since I haven't found something to make it otherwise) that things are resolved at the individual level vice a unit level.

[Thomas_Percy]

I think only some solutions from HoB can be used at BIRTHRIGHT, not the whole system, which is (not suprisingly) about "My PCs are on the battlefield, how I handle with all the rest?".
I agree that Siege Weapons Chapter (with this volleys of arrows) is very good and inspiring. There are no rockets and bombards there, it's a pitty because medieval Chinesse and Europeasn durning the end of the One Hundred Years War used it (accordingly).