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This is the first round of a weekend event at the "On Military Matters" bookstore.
Cy Taylor's Byzantines take on the Anglo-Irish.

http://philonancients.blogspot.com/2016_10_01_archive.html

Enjoy

Do you guys like L'Art de la Guerre better than black powder? Looks like theres terrain placement rules too. Kinda interesting. Its pretty cool you guys seem to have a group that gets together. I envy that. I would really appreciate a video bat rep... if youre up to it. Also, you guys need some drama on your battlefield. Kind of a bummer that all these neglected systems and historics dont get much modern treatment a la twitch or youtube...

There are a couple of YouTube battle reports also explaining the game system. Filming a video of a game would require a lot of editing as the average game is 2.5 hours long. There are terrain placement rules with the game. Winning the "Terrain Battle" is like gaining 20% combat edge. It works like this.
Both sides dice off, adding their initiative values. Initiative values range from 0 to 6, counting Generals pluses and Light Cavalry numbers.
High roller decides if he will attack or defend.
If attacking, he must select a terrain type from the defenders list.
They are Plains, Forest, Mountains, Steppes and Desert.
If defending, he selects a terrain type from his own list.

The defender gets a free piece of terrain depending on the Terrain Type. For Plains it is a ploughed field. For Mountains it is a steep hill. Then the defender picks 2-4 additional pieces from a list. The attacker then picks 2-4 from the same list.
There are dice rolls for where the terrain is placed. Then another set of dice rolls for adjustment of the terrain.

So, potentially there could be 9 pieces on the board.

Phil

Thats kinda cool. I have seen the euros thread on the game in the forum. 2.5 hours really isnt that long. If you watch any 40k batreps they are full length 1hr. Short form 10 or 15min. I will do one with black powder, but I have to finish my armies first. You could just do a turn by turn summary. I will look into your system. Looks like its the preferred one mabe. Great thing about historicals! The miniatures are fungible.