Post by martin on Sept 22, 2021 7:47:11 GMT
Five games of DBA v3 against Colin O’Shea on Monday. Mostly medieval + one Classical period:-
1. Later Judaeans took on Nabateans. On one flank the Judaean zealots (5Hd) rushed the Nabatean massed archers, but were rapidly mown down. Meanwhile the main lines clashed, the Nabatean commander (3Kn) breaking through the Herodean line but then being surrounded and killed. Win to Judaea (4g to 2+2xHd)
2. The Anglo-Irish went on holiday, and invaded the territory of the Early Burgundians, in very open terrain. Despite the fact that the Irish light horse and kern played no part in the battle, the ‘luck of the Irish’ blessed their dice rolling, for a 5-0 win.
3. Uppity Lambert Simnel (/Edward, Earl of Warwick, maybe, just maybe……) defended against Henry VII’s forces (while Henry watched from a safe distance), over hilly and wooded terrain. The royal army advanced very steadily, maintaining formation, using artillery to blast the rebel mercenary pikemen and Irish kern, and also winning the initial exchange of arrows. As the forces closed a charge by royalist raw levies and mounted men-at-arms broke the will of the rebels, for a 4-0 win to Henry.
4. A close run game between a Scots Common army and Scots Islesmen, with highlander support. Pikes and axemen tussled in the centre, the Galwegians in both armies clashed, and the King’s knights repeatedly charged some highland archers but couldn’t break them, and on his third charge the king was unhorsed for a marginal Islesmen victory (4g+horde to 3).
5. Finally, those old mates the Feudal English and Feudal French met after heavy rainfall the night before. Sodden ploughed fields hampered the initial English advance, but before long their levy foot had engaged the French, who had meanwhile redeployed many of their knights to their left flank. Luck deserted the French, and despite eventually dealing roughly with the English levies they conceded the game for a 6 to 1+ 2xHd English win.
