TDC IX Later Medieval - Results

[Karvon]

Results are to be posted by April 5. Unreported matches will be adjudicated by the coordinators.

Coordinator: rockmanbob123

It is the winner's duty to report the results (or the higher scorer in a draw). However, the loser should also check to see that the match has been reported in a timely manner to ensure a score isn't lost.

Please report results in this format. Please use the results from the top left corner of the screen from the final turn. Do not use the scores from the final game summary screen, which show the losses suffered by type.

Division A

Stilicho (Roman) defeats Alaric (Visigoths) 55-3


Divisions

Div A
Kroche French 1428-1444 w Scot (Continental)
random27 turkish ottoman 1430
Triarii Polish 1455-1500) + Lithuanian
Stones1985 Burgundian 1471 to 1477 AD with English Continental
DocVanNostrand French 1400-1427 w Scots
Bagatrix1805 Danish 1488 - 1500 w German feudal
w2512494748 Venetian 1440-1500
mcfcivo Castillan 1476-1497

Div B
IMC Florentine 1424
rpadilla1988 English (Tudor) 1485-1500
ulysisgrunt French 1484-1500
Solemnace Swiss 1476CE-1477CE
Maeglyr Ottoman 1430-1500 AD
wzfcns french 1480-1483 AD
rockmanbob123 german (Imperial) 1488-1500
Indibil Venetian 1440-1500

[Maeglyr]

Division B

Maeglyr's Ottomans defeats Solemnace's Swiss [ 51 - 7 ]

In a alternate reality, the swiss confederation firmly wanted access to the sea.

Surrounded by grumpy europeans forces, they preferred to try their luck on the Ottoman lands, convinced that their well-organized infantry would know how to fracture the Sublime Porte.

It was without considering the infinite hordes of mounted archers who marauded in search of beautiful pennants.

Despite a morale of steel and several clever attempts to take in reverse the elusives and unbearables sipahis, under a shower of arrows and bullets, the Swiss keils and hallebardiers could only hold the field for a few hours before retreating, bitter, towards their gentle mountains.

Good game, Solemnace, but it's difficult to go east with this roster !

[Maeglyr]

Division B

Maeglyr's Ottomans defeats ulysisgrunt's Frenchs [ 49 - 23 ]

From time to time, even the most solid friendships require a good little conflict to release steam. Speaking of, the French steamrollers really wanted to flatten two or three timariotes.

The French aristocracy, despising the foot soldiers, decided to ignore the earthfills bastions on the Ottoman left flank. There, shelling and janissaries would hide, ready to unleash deadly flocks.

On the right flank, the Ottoman commander-in-chief, Ibrahim Firuz Pasha, a paragon of arrogance, rushed before the jewel of the French nobility, thinking easily avoid their presumed clunky charges. The price was high. Several sipahis formations were trampled upon, without shame.

Learning the lessons of his failure, Ibrahim Firuz Pasha, in a great surge of strategic audacity, firmly decided that it was time for him to courageously flee the battlefield and let his Janissaries open the cans in his place.

The rest of the army knew how to demonstrate discipline in the face of this setback and the knights with lilies, overwhelmed, ended up surrendering their weapons.

I had fun and I feared the knight's wrath until the end. Nothing is sure with these beasts !

[Solemnace]

Division B

Solemnace Swiss 1476CE-1477CE defeats wzfcns french 1480-1483 AD 48-11

While the French knights and their Swiss mercenaries proved to be quite reisliant against the Swiss pikes and Halberds the supporting french units proved less capable. Many were cut down before they exposed the rear of one of the Mercenary Keils to the enemy. They fought on a little longer before collapsing forcing the French to flee before the rest of them were cut down.

[Indibil]

DIVISION B
Indibil Venetian 1440-1500
defeats
Maeglyr Ottoman 1430-1500 AD
65 - 43
Thanks for the game Maeglyr

[Solemnace]

Division B

Solemnace Swiss 1476CE-1477CE defeats rockmanbob123 german (Imperial) 1488-1500 52-25

Swiss Keils faced their German imitators and while the German fought hard and drove off or wiped out many of the supporting Swiss units they could not break the Swiss Keils who destroyed enough of the German army to give a victory to the Swiss.

[Solemnace]

Division B

Solemnace Swiss 1476CE-1477CE defeats Indibil Venetian 1440-1500 45-16

Both sides initial deployed to defensive positions too good for either side to attack. The Swiss on the other side of a river and the Venetians on top of a high rough hill. After a moment of comtemplation both came down on to the smoother ground in front of the river with many Venetian crossbows trying to use a smaller hill to help them hold their gorund against the Swiss. This worked against the Swiss Halberdiers but failed against the Swiss Keils who crushed most of the Crossbowmen while a battle between Venetian light horse and Swiss light foot ended in the favor of the Swiss. The Venetians outflanked the Swiss mercenary knights on the right but this effort while destructive was slowed by the brave knights who held on as long as they could giving time for the rest of the Swiss army to tear the Veneitians to pieces and a supporting Keils to kill one of the knights to hand victory to the Swiss.

[ulysisgrunt]

Division B

ulysisgrunt (French) defeated Indibil (Venetian) 26-54

[Solemnace]

Division B

Solemnace Swiss 1476CE-1477CE defeats ulysisgrunt French 1484-1500 52-27

Initially the Swiss deployed defensively in the face of the large number of French knights and supporting units. They eventually shifted to the offensive taking out some of the French artillery at the loss of two Keils one which rallied and drew one of the French Swiss keils away from the main fight where some of the French supporting units were destroyed at the cost of the Swiss artillery and some of the Light foot. The battle came to an end when one of the French Swiss keils was shattered and the French quit the field.

[Maeglyr]

Division B

Maeglyr's Ottomans defeats wzfcns's Frenchs [ 52 - 22 ]

The French vanguard, composed of archers and crossbowmen, deployed a sustained shot against the sipahis. They chose to ignore these shots and to load savagely into the pile a wild charge in their ranks, supported by a triplet of entrenched bombards.

Stuck between two thick woods and their shooting infantry being harassed, pikemen and billmen could not properly deploy and vainly sought to catch the timariotes. They ended up surrounded, isolated from each other, without support.

A large part of the French knighthood was distracted from the main battles by an intrepid attack of the djanbazans, coming from the rear. These were ruthlessly routed by Guillebert de Castries and his écuyers, but gave the rest of the army time to break through the French lines and disperse their cohesion.

When, on the right flank, the Ottoman skirmishers, gunners and light cavalry from the Balkans, were surprised by volleys of arrows coming out of the forest, the Iaylars were ready, in reserve, and hunted one by one the French archers in the woods.

In the end, the French retreated without almost any knight having bitten the dust. The honor was safe!

Thanks for the game, wzfcns !

[random27]

Div A

random27 turkish ottoman 1430
defeats
Stones1985 Burgundian 1471 to 1477 AD with English Continental

Score 59-32

Thanks for the game

[Kroche]

Division A

Kroche French 1428-1444 w Scot (Continental) 28% loss
defeats
mcfcivo Castillan 1476-1497 59% loss

Very good game where the French held in the centre against the Castillian heavy foot where pike and knights traded blows. The French right overpowered the Castillian left after trading missiles for an extended period. Castillian centre was defeated with the support of the French right and this was concluded just as the French left was collapsing. GG

[Stones1985]

Division A

Stones1985 (Burgundian/English) beat DocVanNoStrand (French/Scots) by a score of 40 to 14.

Thanks for the game.

[rpadilla1988]

Hello everyone, sorry for the delay in posting but

Div B

rpadilla1988 English (Tudor) 1485-1500 defeats Solemnace Swiss 1476CE-1477CE (63-46)

And

rpadilla1988 English (Tudor) 1485-1500 defeats Ottoman 1430-1500 AD (44-7)

Both great games with their own sets of challenges! GL!

[Indibil]

DIVISION B

Indibil Venetian 1440-1500 AD
Defeats
wzfcns french 1480-1483 AD

70-45

Thanks for the game

[Maeglyr]

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 !

[wzfcns]

Group B
wzfcns french 1480-1483 AD defeat IMC Florentine 1424 23-49
French cavalry concentrated on the right wing and defeated the Italian cavalry.

[random27]

Div A

random27 (ottoman) defeats mcfivo (castillan) 60-31

Thanks for the game

[Bagatrix1805]

Div A
Bagatrix1805 defeated DocVanNostrand by a score of 63-48
Thanks for the game and good luck in your other matches

[Solemnace]

Division B

Solemnace Swiss 1476CE-1477CE draws with IMC Florentine 1424 56-42

A long hard fought battle that only ended with nightfall between an army of Swiss and a Meercenary army with a strong swiss contingent. Both armies have been reduced to just a handful of units desperately fighting for survival but on the final turn the Swiss could only got a consolation prize of running down and breaking one more Florentine light foot unit to end the game.