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Post by diades on Jul 17, 2023 14:05:46 GMT
Started reading the newly released paperback ‘Persians: The Age of the Great Kings’ by Lloyd Llewellyn Jones. P I enjoyed it. I followed it up with Sattin’s “Nomads”.
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Post by diades on Jul 17, 2023 14:01:48 GMT
Just about finished Brian A Catlos’ “Kingdoms of Faith; a new history of Islamic Spain”.
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Post by diades on Jul 6, 2023 22:01:53 GMT
Note - this will be in the 23/24 season 😉 P …which should kick off the week before at the Cold Ash Clash!
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Post by diades on Jun 25, 2023 8:36:44 GMT
Hi diades, this is my humble effort to create some kind of fog of war... Have fun! But maybe you refer to the deployment variant Collision Course. And look out for Jim1973's Time and Weather Rules. Many thanks
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Post by diades on Jun 25, 2023 7:46:29 GMT
I recall an article where there was reference to all elements starting behind the baseline and gradually appearing and moving to deploy. Can anyone point me to it?
Planning to use a similar approach for big battle historic simulation…
Thank you.
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Post by diades on May 22, 2023 19:13:18 GMT
I took spear-laden Phoenicians. Having rarely placed terrain for a few tournaments, I reckoned on defending quite a bit and so it was!
First Colin’s Phillistines…with littoral Phoenician allies. Plenty of terrain next to the waterway and a tiny marsh ahead of my left flank. Colin’s two heavy chariots and a spear landing party frightened my landing away… My spears trudged forward, but had to wheel right to prevent their right from being outflanked in a light troop face off in a large marsh. This forced half of my spears and the mounted to find a way around the left of the tiny marsh. Colin had far fewer PIPs than I, but made them count. With the timer looming I charged my left flank in, not being overly happy with the situation, but my luck was in and I came out the better of combat, particularly surviving a hard flank from sallying camp followers…
Next John’s Assyrians. A psiloi skirmish in front of a marsh on my front left flank was to and fro until my spears caught up: fleeing enemy psiloi and destroying auxilia. The Assyrian chariots were left with no option, but to charge, but my spear line held up! To say the Assyrians were not lucky in combat would be an under statement.
Third, Connor’s beautiful unadulterated Philistines. Spears faced off in the centre, mounted clashing on the right, with one of my psiloi filling in in a small marsh. I thought the game was going to be lost on the left where two enemy auxilia closed on two of my psiloi in….another marsh! My psiloi despatched both, albeit by one of them effectively throwing themselves under the enemy general’s wheels…Spears clashed for ages in the centre and my heavy chariot recklessly pursued light chariot prey down the right, frequently having to save hard flanking…
Final group game against Phil’s Midianites. His weaker foot lined up to face mine, whilst his camelry massed on his left to stage an outflanking manoeuvre. Cohesion and more PIPs allowed my spear to advance and to their thing, whilst the rest of my army frustrated the camels on my right.
I’ll save more until results are published…
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Post by diades on May 22, 2023 8:18:41 GMT
Thank you to Bill and Lindon for hosting once again. A select platoon of 9 on a lovely warm day at the fort... Lindon kindly sat out. 4 group stage games and a round of deciders. I brought Phoenecians and a goodly share of luck. More detail will follow later...
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Post by diades on May 8, 2023 9:43:34 GMT
Khurasan make some tempting Iroquois for Eastern Forest Americans. …and then there are Splintered Light Skraylings….
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Post by diades on May 8, 2023 9:38:52 GMT
I am planning to come along.
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Post by diades on Apr 16, 2023 18:49:14 GMT
An excellent day. Well run Martin; great new venue. Convivial ( a word I don’t use often) atmosphere with banter aplenty. Martin’s opening address advised all to avoid 5th…last choice at the excellent prize table. Guess what? Having realised a few days before the event that the Mercians with Welsh allies I had prepared…a list Middle Anglo-Saxon, were ineligible, I brought Andalusian. I found them able to compete with anything, so had 6 great games. I defeated the NorthAmericans…just….tense stuff I defeated them with Carolingians….just…had my opponent chosen a particular set of combats in reverse order, I’d have lost. I had a tough game against Viking raiders. My Christian guard had polished off three enemy elements, but my general had paid the ultimate price securing the left flank..a 3-G draw. In the afternoon, pure civil war against an identical army. Neither of us was endowed with PIPs or high rolls. I was just slightly luckier than my opponent in an all psiloi clash in and out of a hamlet. Using the army for the last time, I took too many risks and my opponent properly punished me for it, a loss to the Welsh. Finally using Viking raiders once more, a lengthy game, where both of us had our periods of PIP drought, but my raiders were able to push Andalusian light horse too near to the board rear edge! Here’s looking forward to next year please MrSmith.
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Post by diades on Apr 6, 2023 18:05:24 GMT
Hi Simon. Just to keep you up to date. Cold Ash Clash confirmed for 4th November.
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Post by diades on Apr 2, 2023 14:38:33 GMT
Good stuff vodnik …keep it coming…
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Post by diades on Feb 28, 2023 19:27:31 GMT
Apologies for not posting before…
£7.50 secures a place.
Please PM me for Bank details…
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Post by diades on Feb 19, 2023 11:30:04 GMT
The Cold Ash Clash will be held on Saturday 4th November 2023.
Acland Memorial Hall, Cold Ash, RG18 9JH, Berkshire.
For those unfamiliar with the Scramble Format:
Each player brings any valid 12-element v3.0 army on 15mm base sizes (40mm frontage), camp (camp follower element optional), and terrain for a legal battlefield as the defender, which may include provision of a specific legal board size.
Note that the army will be used by other players. • Players will play AGAINST their own army only in the first round. • Players will use their own army only in the final round. • Players will be matched using Swiss chess format. • Armies will be matched as far as possible to maximise variety (of army used and fought against) for players. • The 12-element army and terrain choices may not be changed between rounds (hence no dismounting!). • Players must attempt to place all terrain pieces supplied.
The aim is to have 6 rounds, but may be revised on the day.
Depending upon the number of players and the time to arrange the pairings for each round, there is no guarantee of non-repetition, but priority order will be given to:
1. New opponent each round
2. New army used each round
3. New opposing army each round
There will be the usual trophies:
Top 3 players Strongest Army Slayer Most Challenging Army
In addition, new for 2023
Best Presented Army
Places will be capped at 24. How to secure a space will follow shortly.
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Post by diades on Jan 26, 2023 20:18:15 GMT
There was a theory that pikes were to fix enemy heavy infantry in place, whilst the battle was won elsewhere….
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