Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — House of Normandy

A TOUCH OF COMBAT CLASS: THE ABC’S OF S&S II (by Tom Russell)

A TOUCH OF COMBAT CLASS: THE ABC’S OF S&S II (by Tom Russell)

Coat of arms of the duchy of Normandy Units in the Shields & Swords II series have two components: their unit type and their combat class. There are technically eight unit types – veterans, infantry, infantry with range (crossbowmen), levies, levies with range (longbows), heavy horse, light horse, and light horse with range (mounted archers) – though two of them, the crossbows and the mounted archers, have yet to make an appearance in either The Grunwald Swords or House of Normandy. The unit classes determine what cool stuff the units can do: whether they can go into shield wall, whether...