I am unsure about the late Roman lists. One of their biggest flaws is that they don't have a core of offensive spear unit. Not having the ability to get spanish scutarri for Impact Foot capability in medium terrain also seems like a big drawback compared to Carthage. I am going to need to see better results from them before I move them into Tier A.bbogensc wrote:Yes, MikeC, and you were also correct that the late Roman lists are Tier A. The Roman +-400AD lists and also Romano-British are each comparable, probably better, than the Carthage lists in my view. Note also, the Jewish lists are extremely problematic for Carthage without much archery and I scrambled to get out of my 1st round match up. However, Carthage dominates horse based armies when played properly, and I also thought I could win easily with Carthage against any archer armies by sheer numbers.
I understand your concerns about cheating but so far in 2 FoG2DL seasons, the KO tournament and the 3 official tournaments I have participated in, I have not really felt that I was ever cheated. Is it possible that someone cheated on me? Sure. Ludendorf had a couple of really clutch attacks against bad odds on me that fragmented units or turned them around when they were about to blow open a section of line with a flanking attack. It is possible he cheated but when I step back and examine my run of luck as a whole throughout the game and throughout tournaments, crazy things have happened for both me and my opponent. Ex. If Ludendorf really wanted to cheat me, wouldn't he have simply picked a better spot and cheated before it got to the point where he would have to make a Hail Mary charge with a LH hoping it would stick and turn my flanking unit around? I am sure Klayeckles didn't feel great about my fragmented cavalry beating up his full strength cavalry, causing a double drop in morale and then breaking the same turn when his LH auto broke beside it. I just don't feel that cheating is at all prevalent and even it if is, it isn't stopping me from posting decent results (unless you think I too am part of the pack of cheaters that may or may not exist).bbogensc wrote:On league, I am busy right now with work and travel, but am also very discouraged that players (especially newer players) are able to re-load turns. I don't enjoy playing the game against players who are re-loading, its just not fun, even though as klayeckes pointed out there is a certain joy in beating a player that is obviously re-loading. There was a recent posting by Skirmish Lord where he explained that the re-load warning only occurs on extreme re-loading abuse (appears to be dozens and dozens of times), and then its just a warning with no practical effect. In the first season of league I properly reported a player that appeared to be re-loading, and was wrongly told this was "impossible" and Stockwellpete attempted to award the match to my opponent simply for pointing out that he appeared to be re-loading, as Stockwellpete then wrongly claimed this was impossible. I never received any sort of apology or explanation. It was only months later that Kabill demonstrated exactly how the reloading is done, and then we were again told the issue is under control, but its obviously not. In my experience, in addition to outlandish battle results, players that are re-loading often make head on or suicidal attacks that make no sense, so its blatantly obvious the person is re-loading and knows they are going to load a sequence until they get a 2 drop fracture, for example.
So, where I was placed in B and C, with players I've never heard of, and other players I've never heard of going directly into A, I just decided that was enough where I had beaten many of the A players. I am running the campaign which is more enjoyable and in a campaign its really impractical to try to re-load turns so its just a more viable set up. I don't think the league is designed well enough to run where players are able to re-load especially in the lower divisions.
In any case, I respect your decision, it was just strange to see you pull out of all 5 divisions after the start of the League and it cause some disorder along with other people pulling out alongside you. For what its worth, I have never had a problem with Pete in our interactions and I have been in his tournaments or played beside him since day 1 this game launched. In any case, good luck with your campaign, I would have joined but as I said earlier, I am not really into the big metagame stuff.
I wonder how the players who you had started matches with felt about it? And I did not immediately have enough players to cover your 5 places because I had to take one of the slots even though I have hardly played for the last couple of months. I also had to re-write all the fixture schedules and charts/tables because I keep everything in alphabetical order. 
