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Post by phippsy on Sept 15, 2017 11:56:22 GMT
I was involved in 2 scenario refights of the Battle of Degastan 603AD on Monday just gone.
The armies are Middle Anglo Saxon 11x4wb and 1xPS versus Scots-Irish with a LCh general 9x3Ax, 1x7Hd and 1xPs.
Battlefield basically paltry river across centre with gentle hills either side.
Sitting behind the Scots-Irish on that open terrain, it felt like no chance to win. Actually both scenarios unfolded in the same way, in the Scots - Irish refused centre and went for 1 or 2 flanks, got past the Warband and then destroyed then piecemeal from the flanks. This surprised me.
The killing power of the supporting Warband elements were diminished and held, and not mobile enough to redeploy quickly.
Any thoughts on how the Saxons could have deployed or tactically offset this fast flanking?
The results were opposite to historical outcome.
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