Division B
Maeglyr's Ottomans defeats IMC's Florentine [ 65 - 30 ]
For this meeting, the Florentines decided to divide their army into two distinct corps, whose heart was a keil. One to the west, set back, marauding around a flowery hill, the other to the east, holding a wooded hill.
The defensive position of the Florentines forced the Anatolian infantry to abandon the security of their entrenched positions alongside the bombards to launch a risky operation to secure the flanks of both wing of the Ottoman cavalry. Most will not survive it, but will occupy the men-at-arms, mounted and footed, long enough to allow the sipahis to apply their preferred tactic: the arrowed pincer movement.
A keil, left alone in the west by his supporters, scattered, held valiantly against a squad of sipahis determined to fill their hunting table. Vain Ottoman pride.
The right flank, Akinjis and Bedouin cavalry, was quickly routed by the swarm of light Italian cavalry, supported by proud knights. The remaining sipahis, stubborn, manage to hold the field.
The other keil was abundantly watered with arrows then loaded by crazy janissaries. Their science of the sword allowed sipahis to go around the wall of spades and pass through the back door, routing the keil. His supporters, archers and crossbowmen, were also swept away. The sipahis, freed from this threat, could blithely take care of the heavily armed but, alas, very little mobile knights.
Thanks for the game, IMC, comme toujours, the men-at-arms make me sweat !
