My lad and I played a little game yesterday - 1,000 points a side. It wasn't wholly successful - we forgot several special rules - like 'Fall Back in Good Order', the 'Stampede Test' when an elephant takes a wound from shooting and things like that, resulting in the Romans getting utterly trashed by the Sassanids. The Romans' case wasn't helped by utterly dire dice rolling - in some rounds they failed even to hit anything at all let alone deal out any actual wounds. I'd have thought that, by the age of 14, my son's 'kiddy rolling dice' attribute would have begun to wear out - but not a bit of it - and he still jinxes my rolling too.
We're going to try again, probably on Thursday, and will play a much bigger game - which will, amongst other things, allow us to use formations and tactics more like those of the real armies. Hopefully we'll remember the special rules this time (and probably forget some others instead!). Much as I like WAB, I think one could write a simpler set of rules which did the same job, and didn't lose any of the period flavour. This game has given me the impetus to get started again.