War of the Roses games

[stockwellpete]

Is anyone interested in playing a few battles with me of what might be termed "more historically accurate WotR battles"? What I mean by this is that the DAG selection currently allows WotR players to pick a very large number of knights in their army which is not historically accurate at all i.e. it is not compatible with the medieval social structure which had a very small ruling class at the top of it.

So I will pick a more realistic Yorkist army from the DAG list comprised of the following . . .

3 x foot knights
1x mounted knights * (these units are my commanders - 3 "battles" and 1 "reserve")

9 x retinue billmen
9 x retinue archers
6 x town and country militia (shire levy)
6 x town and country archers (shire levy)
1 x handgunners*
2 x mounted currours *
2 x northern spearmen *

This makes 39 BG's in total.

I am looking for someone to pick a realistic Lancastrian army to fight my Yorkists. You should pick the same number of troops as I have in my army unless there is an asterisk present - so you don't have to pick currours, handgunners, spearmen or mounted knights, you can choose other unit types - but you will need to pick at least the same number of billmen and archers. You may also only pick three commanders but they must all be "field" status (the Lancastrians did not actually have an "inspired leader between 1455 and 1487).

Anyone interested?

[TJD]

Count me in! Should be fun.

Tim

[stockwellpete]

Count me in! Should be fun.

Tim

OK Tim, password is "yorkists".

[stockwellpete]

A very diifferent feel to the game with these troop stipulations in place - because there are fewer knights the melees are much shorter and sharper as the "average" and "poor" billmen don't last too long.

I shall be playing Tim again soon. Anyone else interested in this idea?