[Keir Maxwell]

People might want to try Chariots of War as the battle system, IMO, is very nice and somewhat similar to Dominions. Some of the features, like greater unit integrity for drilled spearmen, would repay looking at in relation to improving the Dom battle engine. The way LI work through scouting is brilliant but by its nature doesn't work for PBEM. On the down side Archers have the same exagerated ranges and ease of targeting as Dom and as they are more accurate than in Dom they are rather devestating.

Chariots of War is made by one of the top ranked British ancients gamers (DBM) and is an interesting reflection of a competition gamers view of how much control generals should have over a battle - not much. The matchups reflect the creators depth of understanding of ancients warfare but unfortunately the Chariot era is not one of his pets so alot of the historical stuff is weaker than it might have been.

cheers

Keir