Chaos Tourney IX Results

[Chris Townsend]

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GeneralKostas Chris Townsend Welsh 600-1049 AD German (Feudal) 1450-1489 AD TW

Wellsh, this Welsh army list seems to be before they started using bows, let alone their feared longbow. And their cavalry lack lances (though two of five do have armour - the only available Welsh armoured units!). Fortunately, the Welsh side of the map had some woods behind each flank, and a lot of rough through the centre, so, after deploying maximum cavalry and javelin men, both generals deployed half of their Brythonic foot behind the rough, and half hidden in the woods (which fooled no one).

The differences appeared on the Germanic side where one general choose good quality troops (Xbow, heavy infantry and armoured cavalry) while the other went for a lot of poor quality troops (raw xbow, lesser men-at-arms and peasants), which at least had the "advantage" of being no worse in the rough. In the end, the more numerous but poorer quality Germans were the more successful.

Chris Townsend's Welsh defeated GeneralKostas's Germans 65-39
Chris Townsend's Germans defeated GeneralKostas's Welsh 44-8

Both good Chaos games!

[DocVanNostrand]

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DocVanNostrand Crusader 1096-1099 AD defeats GeneralKostas Thracian (Triballi) 350 BC - 46 AD by a score of 48-5

The Crusader missile attacks and cavalry were able to inflict significant damage before the Thracians could bring their overwhelming infantry advantage to bear. GG!

[DocVanNostrand]

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DocVanNostrand Thracian (Triballi) 350 BC - 46 AD defeats GeneralKostas Crusader 1096-1099 AD by a score of 60-52

This one was a real slog, with the crusaders nearly pulling a victory out at the end. gg Kostas!

[Karvon]

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[rockmanbob123]

rockmanbob123 lombards defeated ulysisgrunt Danish 66-53

The Lombard horse was on the verge of an early decisive victory 38-3 but the scrappy Danes were able to turn the tide and almost came back from a 35 percent early disadvantge.

[Chris Townsend]

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Chris Townsend Bagatrix1805 English 1272-1319 AD Arab (Umayyad) 685-750 AD TW

The English brought their army of modern longbows and knights to an Arab desert and were sent packing. Their chosen battle field had a large rough topped hill with difficult sides between the lines, obscuring the view. But no one was surprised to see this sector allocated to the Arabs veteran Dailami, irregulars and massed bowmen. The opposing Irish foot and longbows had no chance. Defensive spearmen occupied the centre of the Arab line, doing reasonably well against Bagatrix's longbows, and even better against English spears. But the key difference between the two battles was the deployment of the cavalry. Bagatrix put a well balanced force on the semi-open Arab right flank, and demonstrated that it could pick apart longbows and Irishmen, even when they occupied rough terrain. Chris Townsend tried the same trick with an exclusively light cavalry force, which did some damage, but was comprehensively defeated, partly with the help of a few sergeants. Chris Townsend deployed a force of lancers on the Arab left, and was met by knights with sergeant support - the lancers outnumbered the knights 2:1, and that proved decisive. Chris Townsend's knights, also deployed on the open right, found the area behind the hill empty, and were highly paid spectators to the English defeat.

Results in numbers:
Arabs (Chris Townsend) defeat English (Bagatrix) 57-20
Arabs (Bagatrix) defeat English (Chris Townsend) 53- 4

Morale: If you are looking to defeat a technically inferior opponent, choose your battleground carefully.