[4.01] Komnenan Byzantine 1071 AD – 1204 AD Climat : Agressivité : Zone topographique :
Chaud 1 Arable
Terrain obligatoire : Terrains facultatifs :
(aucun) WW, Rv, H(S), H(G), Wd, O, V, E, RGo, Rd, BUA
Avertissements Les troupes irrégulières sont en rouge, les troupes obligatoires en gras.
Liste principale Désignation
Type Coût 200 pts Reg Cv (O) 28 Reg Kn (F) 31 Reg Cv (O) 28 Reg Cv (O) 28 Reg mtd Bd (O) 28 Reg mtd Bd (O) 8 *1-4 Reg LH (S) 7 0-3 Irr LH (F) 4 4-8 Reg Ps (O) 2 4-12 Reg Bw (I) 4 Reg Bw (O) 5 0-4 Reg Sp (I) 4 0-4 Irr LH (S) 7 0-1 TF 1 0-6 Reg Gal (S) 4 0-1 Reg Gal (O) 3 Reg Sp (O) 5 List: Seljuq Turk (Bk 3)
C-in-C Sub-general Sub-general • or as Varangians Varangians Tourkopouloi Skythikon Archers Upgrade archers Kontaratoi Alans Ditch and bank to protect baggage Pamphyla and Khelandia • with marines Turkish allies
250 pts
300 pts
400 pts
*1-4 0-4 5-10
*1-5 0-5 6-12
*1-7 0-6 8-16
5-15
6-18
8-24
0-5 0-5 0-1 0-8
0-6 0-6 0-2 0-9
0-8 0-8 0-2 0-12
0-1
0-2
0-2
1 1-2 0-1
Only before 1150 AD Désignation Kavallarioi: • Up to 1/2 • remainder Latinikon Frankish mercenary allies: Frankish mercenary ally general Downgrade Latinikon to Frankish mercenary allies Manichaeans Vlachs and Bulgars: • up to half cavalry • remainder archers Venetian allies: Venetian naval crossbowmen Venetian naval bellatores Venetian usciere [Venetian Bw or Ax] Venetian galleys [Venetian Bw or Ax] Extra to upgrade Venetian Bw or Ax to ally-general Serbian allies Cuman allies
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Coût
200 pts
250 pts
300 pts
400 pts
Reg Cv (O) Reg Cv (I) Reg Kn (F)
8 6 11
4-6
5-8
6-9
8-12
0-4
0-5
0-6
0-8
Irr Kn (F) Irr Kn (F) Irr Ax (O)
14 9 3
Irr LH (S) Irr Ps (O)
7 2
**1 **All 0-2
0-3
0-3
0-4
0-2
0-3
0-3
0-4
Reg Bw (O) Reg Ax (S) Irr Shp (S) Reg Gal (F)
5 Up to 1 per Venetian naval 5 Up to 1 per 2 Venetian naval 4 0-1 0-1 0-2 0-2 2 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-3 +10 ***1 List: Early Serbian or 0-8 0-10 0-12 0-16 Croatian (Bk 3) List: Cuman (Kipchak) (Bk 3)
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[4.01] Komnenan Byzantine 1071 AD – 1204 AD Only in 1082 AD Désignation Man-pushed wagons to break up enemy charge
Type Irr WWg (X)
Coût 6
200 pts 0-2
250 pts 0-3
300 pts 0-3
400 pts 0-4
Coût 31 4 11 12
200 pts
250 pts
300 pts
400 pts
*1-5 3-4 3-8
*1-6 3-5 3-9
*1-8 4-6 4-12
250 pts
300 pts
400 pts
200 pts
250 pts
300 pts
400 pts
0-8
0-9
0-11
0-15
250 pts
300 pts
400 pts
Only after 1150 AD Désignation Upgrade Byzantine generals except Varangians Vardariotai Kavallarioi Latinikon
Type Reg Kn (F) Reg LH (F) Reg Kn (F) Reg Kn (O)
All *1-4 2-3 2-6
Only in 1138 AD and 1159 AD Désignation Crusader allies
Type Coût 200 pts List: Later Crusader (Bk 4) Only in 1152 AD and 1159 AD
Désignation Armenian allies
Type Coût List: Cilician Armenian (Bk 4)
Only on the Italian expedition of 1155 AD to 1156 AD Désignation Sicilian Norman rebel allies
Type Coût List: Sicilian (Bk 4)
200 pts
This list covers Byzantine armies from the disaster of Manzikert until the capture of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade. The loss of its Anatolian recruitment areas forced the army to depend heavily on foreign mercenaries. The Varangians were now a mixture of Anglo-Saxons and Rus, who rode to battle then fought on foot with axes. Kavallarioi were native armoured cavalry, now nearly all armed with lances which they often threw. They included some new elite units such as the Archontopouloi, but also many of low efficiency and sometimes lacking armour. Manouel I (1143 - 1180) increased the Latinikon and trained his native cavalry to charge in Frankish style. The option to class the C-in-C as Kn (F) prior to Manouel’s reforms reflects Anna Komnene’s descriptions of her father Alexios’s prowess, and also the battle of Beliatoba in 1086 when another Byzantine C-in-C, Pakourianos, charged so vigorously that he crashed into a tree and killed himself. The Latinikon were Frankish mercenary knights. We class them as regular as they are described requesting permission to charge. There were also sometimes bodies of Franks under their own leader who were less reliable, once changing sides on the battlefield, so we provide an option to downgrade Latinikon to irregular allies. Tourkopouloi were Christianised Turks. The Vardariotai were a new guards unit first attested in 1160 and originally recruited from Magyar settlers in the Vardar valley. The Skythikon were originally recruited from Pecheneg horse archers, but were increasingly supplemented by Cumans. Native infantry were mainly archers, supported by a few spearmen. The unarmoured spearmen previously equated with peltastai are now thought to represent the poorer Kontaratoi. The troops called peltastai by Anna Komnene are all archers who provide massed distant shooting, carry bucklers, sometimes use caltrops, support pursuing cavalry, on one occasion are placed alternately with infantry spearmen and on another dismount to attack fortifications. However, these last seem to have been dismounted Tourkopouloi. The term is not used by other Byzantine writers of this period, so she may be archaizing. Alternatively, some archers of superior quality and used for important tasks may have been so named from small shields like those shown in use by a minority of archers in later depictions. Manichaeans were Paulician heretic Slavs given to banditry, who are described by Anna Komnene as “excellent fighters, more than ready to draw the blood of their enemies”, “headstrong and devoid of shame”, “desperate warriors, full of loathing for their opponents” and as having an “incurable delight in battle”. 2,800 were present in Alexios’s army at Dyrrachium. Minima marked * apply only if the C-in-C is the Emperor, that marked ** only if the Latinikon is downgraded, that marked *** only if more than 2 Venetian naval elements are used. Byzantine ships cannot be used with Venetians. The battle off Rhodes in 1100 may have been the last Byzantine use of Greek Fire at sea. Sicilian Norman rebel allies cannot include any Saracens. Phil Barker et Richard Bodley Scott, Listes d’armées DBM – Livre 4, 2e édition, mars 1999
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