First FoG:R Battle Report

Gbrios · Post by **Gbrios** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:15 am

Great battle reports!

It helps with this endless wait. I hope we could see 3th and 4th soon.

Keep the good work!

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:00 pm

http://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Oxford_2010_3.php

here's Number 3...

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:17 pm

Thank You! Been waiting for this!

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:14 pm

Those tercios sound tough!! All-round facing and shooting??!! Yikeths!! How doest one planneth to humble those beasts???

footslogger · Post by **footslogger** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:07 pm

madaxeman wrote:http://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Oxford_2010_3.php

here's Number 3...

Nice report again. Thanks!

I would have thought Hannibal might be replaced by Wallenstein in the renaissance?

david53 · Post by **david53** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:10 pm

footslogger wrote:
madaxeman wrote:http://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Oxford_2010_3.php

here's Number 3...

Nice report again. Thanks!

I would have thought Hannibal might be replaced by Wallenstein in the renaissance?

Or Mansfeld

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:49 pm

Isn't Sir Henry Hannibal enough ?

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:35 pm

http://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Oxford_2010_4.php

finished!

vsolfronk · Post by **vsolfronk** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:53 pm

Loved the report. Would like to hear your overall impressions on the new rules. From reading your reports, I am getting geared up to jump into the period (again).

Sad that I sold off my collection of ECW years ago...

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:16 pm

Madaxe...

Could you give an example of the dice numbers and POAs for one of those Swiss blocks impacting & meleeing one of your pike/shotte? They sure seemed to just slice and dice through everything.

It looked like you really only got 2 rounds off before they impacted? One at long range and one at short?

deadtorius · Post by **deadtorius** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:50 am

Great report, I thought you were done for by those horrifying Swiss. Makes one wonder what can stand up to those yodelling buggers. I can only hope that my Royalist cavalry will act somewhat similar when they finally get to meet Blatherguts Parliamentarian horde some day.

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:54 am

Blathergut wrote:Madaxe...

Could you give an example of the dice numbers and POAs for one of those Swiss blocks impacting & meleeing one of your pike/shotte? They sure seemed to just slice and dice through everything.

It looked like you really only got 2 rounds off before they impacted? One at long range and one at short?

I messed up the shooting by not clearing the skirmish screen earlier but they do advance quicker than normal foot.

Even when only at a single +POA, being Elite with a general and re rolling 3's plus having a BG size of 10 makes you a lot better than an average BG of 6 !!!

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:42 am

must be expensive dudes

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:35 am

Blathergut wrote:must be expensive dudes

12 points each for the Elite Armoured variety. And they are in large BGs, so it's a lot of eggs in a few baskets.

deadtorius · Post by **deadtorius** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:08 pm

Is that a basket of deadly eggs or is it the basket as a whole that destroys all that its shadow falls upon??
Seems to be pretty much unstoppable and I guess skirmishers still had a use in the earlier part of the period. They block muskets but not artillery is that correct?
Come on rules were waiting to get our questions answered.....

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:46 pm

Dogsleds are notoriously slow this time of year here.

Hard on the dogs to drag them across grass and pavement!

deadtorius · Post by **deadtorius** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:34 am

I only hope the boat carrying them did not sink or the container fell off in the mid Atlantic. That is a dive excursion I could do without.

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:28 pm

Keils are VERY vulnerable to mounted from the rear (so to speak) and large guns. Richard demonstrated this to me at RollCall 2009. The French provide some counter to the mounted - removes what can be a weakness of the Swiss on their own.