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Post by nangwaya on Aug 23, 2022 7:36:59 GMT
Well, I will call these shortcomings of mine, and here are three: 1) High probability of poor terrain placement 2) Get distracted easily - opponent can send a Ps somewhere and I will bite... hope you get the picture 3) Tend to react to situations rather than attempting to put myself into situations where I can direct the action My win/loss ratio is terrible, but I love playing, so all good! I know, I know too well! It's psychology! You don't play DBA, you play your opponent? I for example am kind of overcautious. A short time ago I led a viking (!) army III/40b to utter destruction.  My plan seemed simple: to defend the river. But the Irish III/46 (mostly Ax) had crammed the battlefield with bad going. Some Ax crossed the river out of my reach (auf deutsch: überflügelten mich), and then turned my left flank, because I couldn't stay out of the marsh. This game was rather short. By the way, a defendable river (3 to 6), is it bad going? What does the rule mean: "it slows down crossing" (p. 11) – how? We were not sure about that. This might sound silly, but I used to and just started up again, reading one quote per day by Sun Tzu. I am not kidding, but it does seem to help especially in getting me out of my normal thinking, such as you, in being over cautious. |
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Post by attilathenun on Aug 23, 2022 9:05:53 GMT
In a game with a certain Mr Skelton I learned the valuable lesson about not standing an elephant general behind another elephant when it recoils. If it helps, you're not the only one who associate me with their biggest mistake. |
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Post by attilathenun on Aug 23, 2022 9:08:59 GMT
My biggest mistake came about when playing sheffmark at Bakewell, thinking that my spear general (8Sp Theban with flank support!) might win against a hard flanked psiloi. Fool that I am. |
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Post by sheffmark on Aug 23, 2022 12:25:10 GMT
Just let it go Mark, it's not worth it!
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Post by Brian Ború on Aug 23, 2022 19:04:49 GMT
I know, I know too well! It's psychology! You don't play DBA, you play your opponent? I for example am kind of overcautious. ... This might sound silly, but I used to and just started up again, reading one quote per day by Sun Tzu. I am not kidding, but it does seem to help especially in getting me out of my normal thinking, such as you, in being over cautious. That's not silly at all! A man, a general who thinks the best way to defeat the enemy is by making him avoid the war, this man must be really wise. I think, I will read it again, too. But we digress... There must be many more strategies that failed and are worth to be told here. We want to hear them all! |
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Post by yorkist on Aug 30, 2022 16:17:08 GMT
My ‘best’ mistake so far was playing Picts vs late Romans. I thought I’d form up all my fast pike into a flying column, dash through some woods, and form a block on the other side where the Romans were least expecting it. This of course needs PIPs, and while I was struggling to complete this complex manoeuvre the Roman general and some mates hit us while half formed, and that was that.
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Post by paddy649 on Aug 30, 2022 22:44:45 GMT
Biggest mistake: Rolling high for PIPs and over-committing with the last 1 or 2 points and leaving yourself vulnerable.
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Post by Baldie on Aug 31, 2022 18:08:20 GMT
Could say
"It is the one I am just about to make"
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Post by Brian Ború on Sept 25, 2022 10:05:03 GMT
A fresh one.
I had Later Carthaginians against Polybian Romans behind a deep river.
I attacked the Roman's left wing (Cv) which was just crossing the river and wanted to crush them with my elephants!
But in my enthusiasm I had missed two things about this cavalry: they were led by their general and were supported by auxilia!
Soon my elephants were gone. Brave Hannibal tried to hold the right wing with spears, but on the left I soon had lost my fast attacking light horse and psiloi against the disciplined roman velites.
So I had lost on both wings even before my centre had reached the enemy. (I still can hear the romans cheering across the river.)
A quick lesson. yorkist, thank you, that was fun! |
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Post by yorkist on Sept 26, 2022 16:01:53 GMT
Those were some good games we had. Your elephants would have fared even worse if we'd remembered they cost 2 PIPs to activate. But I'd also forgotten that when my Saxon fyrd 7Hd attacked your Norse-Irish, so it all balanced out.
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Post by Brian Ború on Nov 24, 2022 10:43:58 GMT
In my last battle in this year's Ulm tournament "Chariot wars" I led the I/28 Sea People (after a long travel around Africa and India  ) against theodenatas and his I/32 Chou & Spring & Autumn Chinese. They had two impressive HCh and two LCh in their centre.  First I crushed the Chinese left wing of 4Bd with my HCh Gen and 3Bd (I caused 3 losses), but soon I had to experience the devastating effect of the chinese HCh against my 3Ax and 3Bd on my left wing.
My worthy troops were simply ridden over because of the HCh quick kill abilities. In the end my Sea people were slaughtered with 5 losses.
Now I wonder what would have been the best tactics against them, some Ps perhaps (which I had not chosen)?
But now I see Ps are even worse against HCh, the blade killer. Then maybe a kind of oblique order (schiefe Schlachtordnung) or echelon formation?
Or should I have sent my HCh General against them?
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Post by Cromwell on Nov 26, 2022 8:31:27 GMT
My biggest mistake?
Mary O'Rafferty!
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Post by Baldie on Dec 4, 2022 8:47:48 GMT
Obs not a patch on getting my Elephant General shunted by another elephant but.
The concentration, working out the numbers, taking into account the Paladins negative effect on those chances. Then the feeling of elation as I zapped a general with a magical blast only to realise he was only a knight general was amusing.
The good Mr M Johnson's face as he also thought for a moment he had forgotten a rule was equally as priceless.
For all those amayure have a crack gamers, that I most def consider myself to be. "READ THE BLINKING RULES"
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Post by sheffmark on Dec 6, 2022 9:56:16 GMT
Obs not a patch on getting my Elephant General shunted by another elephant but. The concentration, working out the numbers, taking into account the Paladins negative effect on those chances. Then the feeling of elation as I zapped a general with a magical blast only to realise he was only a knight general was amusing. The good Mr M Johnson's face as he also thought for a moment he had forgotten a rule was equally as priceless. For all those amayure have a crack gamers, that I most def consider myself to be. "READ THE BLINKING RULES" You see I have faith in you Baldie that you can still come up with a cunning plan that no one else has thought of, including me. |
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Post by Brian Ború on Jul 18, 2023 9:17:38 GMT
Anything new in the field of grandiose tactical failures in DBA battles? (And, please, DBA/HoTT only...  ) |
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) against theodenatas and his I/32 Chou & Spring & Autumn Chinese. They had two impressive HCh and two LCh in their centre.
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