Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — Age of Alexander
NOTES ON TABLE BATTLES: AGE OF ALEXANDER no. 17-23 (by Tom Russell)
17. Chaeronea (2 August 338 BCE) When I translate a given engagement into the peculiar language of Table Battles, a lot of my time is spent on things that a lot of players won't really notice. What die results a card can accept, whether or not it's limited to one die per turn, how cards are divided into wings and how often die results are duplicated within a wing and within an army, how the cards interact with one another: it's there, and it's what makes the thing work, but it doesn't necessarily call a lot of attention to itself....