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Paris results

Page history last edited by Rob Brennan 13 years, 4 months ago

My victory was based more on exploiting my opponents errors rather than my own brilliance.  Pity the Italians were held up as I suspect they could have taken some of the leading places.

Am not planning on publishing my list. I think there is too much emphasis on list tuning and too little attention paid to strategy. The list was very simple with a lot of pikes.

The touranment was well organised, all my opponents were nice, even when losing. I can recommend Paris as an event.  My only compaints:  French meals are too late for my stomach and the cup too big for my lounge.

Short summary of my games:

1. Against Ians Portugese.
  Sea to my left, dunes to my right, gentle hill in Ians centre.
  Ian deployed on the hill and opposite the dunes.
  I did not fancy charging a hill fill of English bows and blades so stood and watched while he took the empty dunes and advanced a few bows to provoke me. I ignored the light troops in the dunes and countered the Bw with my Ax(S).  What started as a skirmish in the middle developed into a pitched battle.  This suited me because it was away from Ians hill and his troos seemed to arrive in small groups of mounted and dismounted knights.  I found the Bd(S) very unpleasant and thought the game was lost when one of my pike commands became disheartened.  Ian lost his English Bd General. A few gaps opened up the his lines and he quickly lost 3 elements in one bound, which broke a Portugese command which then tipped the English over the edge and I had won, much to my surprise. It could easily have been 22-3 for Ian. Ian only seemd to have lost about 7 elements, but they were all 2 or 4ME and the commands are relatively small.

2. Against Gaels NKE.
  Gael was not planning on playing and scraped a list together in a hurry. He is a good player but was not practiced with the NKE.
He put a wide river through the middle of the table from long edge to long edge. I put a large marsh on my left.
  Gael deployed one infantry command in the marsh, one mixed command on the other (right) side of the river and flank marched a mixed command on my right.
I deployed everything on my right.
  Gael gave the Marsh command the highest PIP and they attempted to cross the river at several points in small groups but were easily countered. The flank march arrived immediately but I had reckoned with it and quickly deployed a double line of pikes to win time. The flank march had the lowest PIP and was too slow to achieve anything. I advanced with a large phalanx and overwhelmed the 4 Blades and about 8 Cavalry facing my centre, then turned and cornered the retreating flank march.

3. Against Janns Assyrians.
For some strange reason the Assyrians attacked in the Summer and it was hot. Jann had 14 Kn(S), a few cavalry plus a lot of light infantry. I had a sea to my right, dunes to my left and more dunes in front of me.  The was a gap of about 40cm between the two dunes.
The game started at 07:00. I decided to wait until near noon, when both sides would be thirsty.  Janns flank march appeared on the left but he did not fancy charging my phalanx which stood with the sea to it´s rear and the centre dune on it´s right. At about 11:30 I advanced such that Jann thought he might kill a few elements without much loss to himself. I quickly reorganised the phalanx and a general melee took place between the dunes, which suited me. Normally Pikes fight 6:4 against Kn but thirst made it into a 5:3 which quickly broke both Kn commands.


4. Tilmans Medieval Germans.
Tilman covered his end of the board with difficult terrain: a village, steep hills, woods and wooded hills. There were gaps of about 20cm between these. In his centre he had a large gentle hill.  I attacked in Autumn and it was muddy, Yippee !
He deployed a small command with WWg and Bge(S) with supporting infantry between difficult terrain slightly to my right.  The rest of the army was missing, I reckoned he had a concealed command behind the hill and a delayed command and was right. I marched in columns to my left and down the centre towards the gentle hill. Tilmans small Kn command appeared from behind the hill, but did not fancy its chances in the mud against so many pikes, so it moved off to the right towards the train. I thought I might get the hill before his reenforcements arrived but the delayed command turned up a little too soon. My centre column had already reached the hill but would have been overwhelmed so I turned my columns round and retreated. Tilman got overconfident and chased me with his Kn.  Now the late night and early start took a toll on his judgement, the phalanx turned gain and killed Tilmans Kn general. The rest of the Kn froze and soon followed their leader. Meanwhile Tilmans train command was advancing, I marched round it´s flank and Tilman had to change his orders and give it the highest Pips so it could retreat to safety. With the broken Kn command and the reteating train command, this left his most useful large pike command with the lowest Pip, fighting my phalanx between difficult terrain held by my light troops. Tilman became demoralised before his army did and gave up.


So as I said, not particularly brilliant and a very simple army.

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