magazine article: D&D stats for ancient soldiers.

[apeloverage]

I remember reading about this article in a review of (probably) either Dragon or White Dwarf.

It gave D&D stats for various ancient soldiers. For example it might tell you what AC an ancient Greek warrior would have when wearing breastplate, helmet and greaves and carrying a shield, and what damage their spear would do.

Can anyone tell me the magazine and the issue number?

[Finarvyn]

The Article was probably the one called "Dungeons & ... Dragoons?" and was in White Dwarf. (Issue #20; Aug/Sept '80; on page 8.)

It gives information on historical military units in OD&D, so perhaps that's the one you have in mind.

[Finarvyn]

As a short follow-up:

Dungeons &...Dragoons? rates historical units by quality (level based), Armor Class, Alignment, Organization, Morale, and Weapons.

The historical units rated are: Egyptians, Assyrians, Heroic-Era Greeks, Greek Hoplites, Persian Immortals, Han Chinese, Roman Legionaires, Celts (with mention of German and Pict units), Ostrogoths, Huns, Byzentines, Arthurian Britons, Carolingian Franks, Vikings, Mongols, Samurai, and Aztecs.

This article sounds a lot more interesting that it was in actuality, in my opinion. If there had been a master chart similar to the one in Monsters & Treasures that gave all of the movement, AC, % in lair, etc, I might have actually used this information, but since it wasn't actually given in game terms so much I didn't find it to be very helpful because I would then have to take this article and convert it. I found it was a lot easier to convert historical troops on-the-fly by simply guessing at armor and weapon types and just playing.

Hope this helps, though.

[apeloverage]

Thanks!

[apeloverage]

That was the one I was thinking of. I read it, and it might be useful for a situation where people from different time periods end up in the same place (although as you say, you could just do a bit of reading and make the stats up).