LORDS OF THE STEPPE circa 1400

[fogman]

REVISED TOURNAMENT STATEMENT

A. Philosophy:

1. outcome should not be decided by troops mismatches and/or terrain and/or vast differences in numbers, therefore
a. armies must be similar in composition, and belonging to about the same period (for historical flavour). see B1, B2, B3.
b. terrain must be uniform. see B4.
(since armies are similar and terrain not advantageous to any side, victory should be decided by pure tactics, luck or no luck)

B. Rules:

1. players choose from the following list from Eternal Empire, a 500 pts cavalry army:
Timurids, Golden Horde (later) 1340-1500, Later Russians 1380-1469, Later Ottoman (early) 1362-1479, Later Lithuanians 1382-1500, Later Polish (early) 1300-1444, Mamluk Egyptian 1300-1399 (from Swords and Scimitars).
2. Players can choose the same armies.
3. shock cavalry + foot = 10 maximum. Clarification: shock cavalry are lancers and do not include light horse lancers (serbians) or light spear horsemen (lithuanians, albanians).

4. both players must choose 'very open' terrain when setting up games.

5. each player will challenge every other players.
6. a mirror game will be played, either concurrently or subsequently, in which players switch armies.
7. players are free to change the composition of any army they play before each new game.

8. since this is designed to be a learning experience and a friendly joust, scores will not be tallied. players will post results and are encouraged to discuss battles from a tactical and historical perspective.

[voskarp]

I'm interested. Need to work some on my horse army skills though...

[voskarp]

Could you please elaborate on paragraph c.

[fogman]

Could you please elaborate on paragraph c.

you can have 5 lancers and 5 foot units, or 6 and 4 etc. lancers + infantry = 10 max. most of your units therefore will be horse archers, the way it should be.

horse archers are tricky, you need to master the evasion settings and retreat routes and how to position yourself for rear attacks.

[iandavidsmith]

I would be interested in this tournament.
Cheers
Ian

[fogman]

I would be interested in this tournament.
Cheers
Ian

that makes it 3. hopefully we'll get 2 or 3 more and we can get going. voskarp has been active trying out armies...

[solly]

Good idea, I'm in.
Ciao!

[voskarp]

I would be interested in this tournament.
Cheers
Ian

that makes it 3. hopefully we'll get 2 or 3 more and we can get going. voskarp has been active trying out armies...

It's more like I'm trying to learn how to not get annihilated in the first 5 rounds... I'll be last in this tournament for sure. But someone always has to be...

[iandavidsmith]

another challenge posted with me as the allies
for anyone to pick up
password= burningbridges

good luck
Ian

[fogman]

first post updated.

we have 5 players: fogman, voskarp, iandavidsmith, solly, lascar.
if our number doesn't change, we'll be playing 8 games each.
we'll start on sunday 23rd.
army selection is open.

[fogman]

fogman: later lithuanians.

[iandavidsmith]

i will pick Later Polish (early) 1300-1444

Thanks
Ian

[solly]

Gday to all
Iandavidsmith choose polish before me. . .
So I play Timurids
Ciao

[voskarp]

I'll take the Mamluks. (Remember to make challenge open to all books.)

[voskarp]

Is light foot included in the max 10 group?

[iandavidsmith]

Gday to all
Iandavidsmith choose polish before me. . .
So I play Timurids
Ciao

see 1st post....

"2. Players can choose the same armies."

[fogman]

Is light foot included in the max 10 group?

Yes.

[fogman]

Remember when setting up:

Terrain: very open
Book: any

[fogman]

Gday to all
Iandavidsmith choose polish before me. . .
So I play Timurids
Ciao

see 1st post....

"2. Players can choose the same armies."

Solly, if you don't mind, keep timurids as it makes the mirror game more interesting.

[solly]

Thanks Fogman: I see the rule. But I think that is more funny if every players use different armies. . . Or not?
Maybe in the future we can play a mirror tournament . . .