Fate of Bjuna and Caress of Lanyph vs War Machines.

Toughness of the war machine, Strength of the crew.

BRB p. 108: "You always use the Movement, Weapon Skill Ballistic Skill, Strength, Initiative, Attacks and Leadership of the crew. The Toughness of the war machine is used against ranged attacks and the majority Toughness of the crew is used against close combat attacks."

As it happens, Publius Virgilius Maro (70-19 BC), the greatest Roman poet (and acknowledged as seer), already predicted in the Aeneid  (6.847-853)¹:

Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera,
credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore voltus.
orabunt acies melius, caedique meatus
describent radio, et surgentia latera dicent: 
tu legere imperio regulas, Fidelis, memento!
hae tibi erunt artes; legisque imponere morem,
parcere scripturis, et debellare subiectis.”


Others will more easily create lifelike metals,
(I am sure of it), and draw forth living features from finecast.
They will tell better tales of battle, and describe the movements
for the carnage in detail, and declare the winning side:
You, Fidelis, remember to read the rules with authority!
These will be your arts – to establish the rule of RAW,
To heed what is written, and to subdue mere supposition.


1. The manuscript tradition contained some minor errors, which I amended here in Italics. 

Ah, I guess you noticed the one instance I did not follow the metrum.