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Post by hodsopa on Jan 15, 2017 14:17:25 GMT
Is the solution, after the Roman Cav hits the LH to its front, to move the flanking LH 1/4 BW to its own right, so that the contacts are all legitimate? (On the basis that wrinkles in the way that the non-mover is set up can't prevent the mover from moving to contact.)
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Post by hodsopa on Jan 7, 2017 22:26:36 GMT
I have a new American son in law and his dad gave me Killer Angels (Michael Shaara) for Christmas, I agree with the earlier comments, what a brilliant book.
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Post by hodsopa on Dec 12, 2016 20:56:53 GMT
PS Martin thanks a lot (belatedly) for the lift offer. Luckily we had no train problems as it turned out.
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Post by hodsopa on Dec 12, 2016 20:56:26 GMT
PS Martin thanks a lot (belatedly) for the lift offer. Luckily we had no train problems as it turned out.
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Post by hodsopa on Dec 11, 2016 20:01:39 GMT
Congratulations to Arnaud! I had a great time too, loved the consistency of the theme and the infantry slogs. My story with the warband-heavy Welsh, with Viking allies:
1. A wood was on my left flank about half way in. John Saunders with early Russians set up with his infantry on his right, his mounted (mostly Kn) on the left. Early on I got two pairs of Wb through the wood and out the other side, but they were out of command distance and never managed to reach his infantry which withdrew and withdrew. A third pair of Wb and the Vikings fought, on my refused right flank, a Sp, about 3 Kn including the general, and a LH. I had the luck of the dice and was winning 2-1 and then, on the last turn with the bell rung, I 6-1'd his general with a Wb. I cheered embarassingly!
2. Against Andrew with Scots Isles. With a large board (80x80) I had a waterway to my left. A difficult hill divided my side of the battlefield into two, a marsh did the same on Andrew's. He held back an Ax and 2 Wb for a landing, and set up the rest of his army in the section of the board furthest from the waterway, blades on his right and Bw/Ps on his left. I charged towards his left with my Wb and Cav general, leaving my 3 Vikings (4Bd) to cover the littoral landing. I hoped to get a breakthrough on my right before we were in general contact all along the line, but this didn't happen. However Andrew was pretty unlucky with his dice; I eventually did get a breakthrough against the bows on my right; and then in an absurdly, unreproducibly lucky last turn I secured a kill in all 5 combats - not just the two where I had him flanked - and won 8-1.
3. Against Martin's pre-Feudal Scots I would only add to what he wrote above that (1) he loves fast Pk and fast Bd and plays them really well; (2) Pk are the hardest of the heavy infantry for my Warband to biff; (3) my dice weren't that bad and he had a deserved win.
4. Against Paul Clare with Anglo-Normans, I defended for the only time in the tournament (my Welsh were Ag 3). I'd brought lots of terrain having in mind defending against Kn armies like this one, but frustratingly the large hamlet and large wood didn’t get on. Three difficult hills all ended up in the same quadrant of the board, my right flank. I hid in the hills, with the Vikings behind them (they never got into the battle). Paul deployed 3 of his Kn on his right, his infantry and one Kn on his left, and his KnG in reserve. My plan was to sit and make him come and get me, but on the second move I had the PIPs to rush some tempting morsels in his infantry line with a couple of pairs of Wb and, in a warbandy way, I couldn't resist charging down from my difficult hilltops to attack them. End result: I killed a bow and lost on of the Wb pairs, hard flanked. Oh well. I managed to retreat back onto the hills, scrappily, with the other pair of Wb. Paul maneouvred well and managed with a Kn to snap up one of my Wb which had let part of itself dangle into the good going; but the bell rang before we could find out whether he would winkle me out in the end. Losing draw.
5. Against Denis Gray with, I think, Middle Anglo-Saxons (but reading Martin's report I see they were Anglo-Danes), a river ran across the board (big board again) from left to my right, near to Denis' edge of the board, with ta road crossing it at 90 degrees on his right. He set up in a line along the river, with a column of 3 HI led by a Sp at the bridge. I ran my Wb up the road in pairs, with the Vikings on the road behind them and the CvG covering my right. With free moves from the road we were quickly in contact at the bridge. The battle line gradually widened from that initial one-element contact. There was lots of pushing and shoving, with my Wb mostly going backwards. The river proved paltry; Denis fed in some troops as extensions to the line in the battle on my left, also sucking in my general, while others slowly curved round to threaten my right flank. Killing dice were scarce on both sides but eventually, with his flankers 1/2 a BW away on my right, my pair of Wb on the road killed the Sp they had been fighting since the start to make it 2-2. At the same moment the Vikings came up. The bell rang. Together with one of the Wb that had made the breakthrough, the Vikings surrounded and killed a Bd that had advanced victoriously on Denis' extreme right, while the other member of the pair hard flanked and killed a Sp further towards the centre, and my general again survived its combat to give me a close victory.
Great atmosphere, lots of fun, looking forward to the next one.
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Dec 8, 2016 23:24:34 GMT
Thanks Menacus. I'm coming over from Brussels by train tomorrow evening - so have a bit of slack in the timetable if I end up spending the night in Woking or wherever.
PS in a last practice game my chosen army, identity yet to be revealed, lost to the pesky Russians only 4-3. Morale is high.
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Post by hodsopa on Dec 5, 2016 22:37:33 GMT
This is a different moving to contact question but I haven't worked out how to start a new thread on the new site so here goes, the heading is still valid.
We know that if a column is hard flanked the element(s) to the rear don't react, and die if the front one (the one also contacted to its front) does. What if the rear element of a column of two, ZOCd and contemplating this horrible fate, moves back a little to create a gap between itself and the front element? The gap is small, so that a unit flanking the front element still also hits the flank of the rear element. Is that still legal? Does the rear element still not react? Does it still die if the front one does?
What I would say based on my limited understanding of this part of the rules is that in this situation it is not legal to flank the front element. But I am not sure what else I think. Advice welcome!
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Dec 2, 2016 22:27:42 GMT
I'll definitely be there next week. I've been trying out different armies. I like all the combinations (except that the Norman/Frankish army seems either to win big or lose big). I like how nearly everyone can have III/40b as allies. Just wish that the Hungarians weren't so pathetic.
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 31, 2016 20:11:25 GMT
Congratulations to Colin and regrets for not being there - Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 26, 2016 21:18:11 GMT
Not me, away from home I'm afraid. Good luck everyone!
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 16, 2016 21:19:47 GMT
2 Kn in column are sneaking down the left hand side of the board, 1cm from the edge. The leading Kn is contacted in its right flank by a 3Pk. At the end of the movement phase is what happens that 1) the leading Kn turns to face the Pk; 2) the second Kn in the column turns behind the first, partly exceeds the edge of the board and is therefore lost?
Or is what happens that the second Kn reverses towards its own baseline to give the first room to turn?
Paul H (incompetently preparing for PAWS in December)
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Post by hodsopa on Oct 10, 2016 22:14:20 GMT
Great choice, Martin. (The absence of camels is more than compensated by the absence, except in Welsh b, of excessive concentrations of Bw.)
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Post by hodsopa on Sept 19, 2016 20:37:14 GMT
Couldn't agree more, Martin. It was a great afternoon and some interesting match-ups. My pre-Islamic nomads attacked 5 times out of 5 and saw hardly a sand dune, but their camels didn't seem to object too strongly to the grassy plains and fields they invaded. Looking forward to finding out Martin M's choice for December.
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Sept 15, 2016 21:23:43 GMT
I'll be there - unless my first grandson arrives first!
Paul H
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Post by hodsopa on Jun 7, 2016 19:24:47 GMT
Re the camels, I'm not sure if it is the aroma, the humps, or the ability to sneak through sand dunes that draws me to them.
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