Why do we bother ?

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:37 pm

My 100 yw Continental English taking on Philistines today.

I manage to break an OS bg, but sadly my fragged dismounted m-a-a bg lost its share of the melee & routed, the longbow next to them who were disrupted threw a 3, they routed, 2 other fragged units decided to fail tests too.

So in one bound one enemy routs, 4 of mine fled the field.

Why do we bother ?

deadtorius · Post by **deadtorius** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:37 pm

having had days like that my heart goes out to you.

As for why we bother next time out you know the Gods of really bad die rolls will take pity upon you and you will totally destroy your next opponent. Also think how your Philistine opponent has now been lulled into a false sense of invulnerability which you will use to humiliate him in your next showdown

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:17 pm

Exactly Dead, and thank you for the sympathy.

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:40 pm

Buy some more new dice!

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:25 am

I had a similar game at the club last night only in this case the dice went in my favour.

My opponents average knights in a 2 by 2 formation hit a BG of medium foot impact foot and a BG of sword and buckler men in the open. At impact my MF lost 1 hit to 0 and the sword and bucklers drew 1 to 1. The impact foot went disrupted.

In the melee the sword and buckler men IIRC drew (2 dice at - vs 2 at +) and the impact foot lost (4 dice at - vs 4 at +) but passed their cohesion test.

Next melee the knights were now in a single rank, my impact foot had not been able to expand to get an overlap but the sword and bucklermen did. The impact foot lost the combat and passed their cohesion test and death roll (I had by now added my IC to the rar of my BG) I inflicted 3 hits on the knights and they of course lost a base. My impact foot bolstered and in the next round of melee the knights managed 1 hit on 6 dice and suffered 5 hits from my 10 dice at - The knights didn't roll a 6 on their death roll and being average they broke.

At the same point my unfortunate opponent lost a combat with a BG of light horse and broke despite a cohesion roll of 11 and a death roll of 6 (1HP3B, beaten by 2, 25% losses, fragmented)

rogerg · Post by **rogerg** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:37 am

First the misery, then the calculation that I was unlucky, then the idea that maybe I could avoid that situation and not need to trust to too much luck, then the need to play again to find out. Its a sort of history of humanity story but on a smaller not too expensive scale.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:24 am

I bother because last night I had at least 6 CT and death rolls in a row, each scoring not less than 17 on the three dice.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:10 pm

rogerg wrote:First the misery, then the calculation that I was unlucky, then the idea that maybe I could avoid that situation and not need to trust to too much luck, then the need to play again to find out. Its a sort of history of humanity story but on a smaller not too expensive scale.

Whenever I have played you of late it seems that I have managed to get the wrong end of the misery despite the calculation being in my favour

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:33 pm

Phil has our share of the luck it seems !

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:29 pm

Scrumpy wrote:Phil has our share of the luck it seems !

And Dan's as well (Dan was my unfortunate victim last night, he has some of the worst luck I have ever witnessed yet still keeps playing).

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:03 pm

I look at my wife and think, unlucky at dice, lucky in love.......Keep on telling myself that as the Superiors roll 2s when they need 3s to hit...

stenic · Post by **stenic** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:13 am

petedalby wrote:Buy some more new dice!

Every one knows new dice just refuse to work as hoped.

In a game 2 weeks ago Andy had his new dice. They failed him. Badly. He managed to force only 4 CTs against us in the entire game. He on the other hand lost loads of combats and couldn't pass a CT to save his life, on at least 3 occassions dropping 2 levels; he failed every death roll and by the time Last Orders put him out of his misery he was about 3 points from army break (and we were on for getting them) whilst not one of our units were disrupted and we'd lost no bases.

I think he's reverting to his old dice, atleast they looked good!!

Steve P

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:09 pm

New advice Paul - get hold of Phil's dice!

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:26 pm

I'm guessing they are worth even more than his figures right now.

johno · Post by **johno** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:45 pm

Played against a Parthian on Sunday: 16 BG of Horse Archers and 2 of Cataphracts at 800 points.

I expected to get shot to bits, but didn't - in fact I don't think my Bosporan lancers had to test for anything except avoiding charging without orders.

At one point he had eleven shooting dice against one Bosporan light horse unit, and failed to cause a cohesion test...

johno

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:51 pm

I bother because last night I had at least 6 CT and death rolls in a row, each scoring not less than 17 on the three dice.

As Phil's opponent, I can assure everybody I laughed for hours over this.

The combat was one BG of Superior Knights v 2 BG's of Elite Cavalry. For three combat rounds I beat each BG causing either 3 or 4 hits, with the sum effect of nothing. Not even a base loss.

Of course it eventually went pear shaped for the Cavalry, but not until a bloody long time had passed...

khurasan_miniatures · Post by **khurasan_miniatures** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:03 am

Why do we bother ?

To keep the poor miserable miniatures seller from utter poverty?

pbrandon · Post by **pbrandon** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:27 am

From last week's game:

"Well I suppose you might as well, but you need 3 6s on 3 dice to make me test"

Some dice are thrown.

"OK I'll take a test then".

Some dice are thrown.

"OK, I'll go fragged then".

Just sharing the pain.

Paul

CrazyHarborc · Post by **CrazyHarborc** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:54 am

My longtime group and I agree that FoG and the way it plays is great....for us. We have been enjoying the rules and most of the suppliments for over a year (or is it 2 now?).

FoG beats the heck out of a couple of sets of rules we have used. These days we spend lots of time just enjoying the flow of the games.

MCollett · Post by **MCollett** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:48 pm

pbrandon wrote:"OK I'll take a test then".

Some dice are thrown.

"OK, I'll go fragged then".

Just sharing the pain.

Were you already disrupted? (You can't drop two levels from shooting.)

Best wishes,
Matthew