Warmaster no. Warmaster ancient yes. Also cold war commander which is based on warmaster.
Why not warmaster but the other two? Simple. They fix my biggest bugbears of warmaster. Warmaster ancient in particular got rid of the goddamn broken cavalry supplemented by terror causing hero combination
. Something HAS to be wrong if _I_ can crush opponents without much of an effort with half the army(infantry) sitting ducks with both players(me and opponent) trying to figure out how to beat the high elves. Heck 50% more points to opponent and I still the elves ran over them though atleast infantry got some job to do. Delaying so that the cavalry has time to walk over enough units to break the army. I'm hardly tactical genius and usually I lose rather than win regardless of game so if I now beat opponent without problems like that then I won't buy assurances that game balance isn't broken.
Sorry but 4+ armour saves, narrow frontages, free availability, relatively cheap prices and terror causing monsters are together just too good. I had break of about 2 year from warmaster and then I pulled it again as another person wanted to try it. I pulled out high elves and despite infantry never moving at all I ran over his army again. Stupid cavalry.
Warmaster ancient meanwhile has fixed as there the cavalry is pricier compared to infantry or doesn't have 4+ save or doesn't have narrow frontage and most definetely don't run around with pet dragon and are in limited numbers to boot. And when most of the conditions for broken are met(4+ save, narrow frontage and IIRC wide availability) atleast they suffer additional command penalty for second order making uber charges from out of nowhere riskier bussiness(especially without command 10 of high elves to lead them).
Myself I utterly
hate warmaster fantasy but absolutely
love warmaster ancient and I have smallish roman army for it which I hope to build to bigger later(from 6mm models though. I HATE painting 10mm troops. Go figure. Anyway I use 6mm so that ranked infantry has 72 infantry models crammed into 3 stands. Now THAT'S lots of troops! Pictures:
RomansOverall I have therefore very mixed feelings regarding the game system. Pretty weird how same core rules can cause such extreme polarisation of emotions! I guess warmaster fantasy COULD be good if they incorporated improvements from warmaster ancient mainly in the area of cavalry.
