In army list below, you can see replace the battle wagons and artillery and with an two additional two generals. My hope was the additional boast in combat, and increased command and control, would compensate for the small size of the army. I was proved right.
As you can see from my deployment I decided to refuse my right flank, covering it only with my light horse. My Pike was to pin his centre, while my main thrust was on the left flank. However, I knew David had a flank march, but did not know which flank it was coming on and how many battle groups it had in it.
The light horse moved up to delay his infantry armed with heavy weapons and attempt to disrupt them. They manage disrupt his infantry, but in return were fragmented by fire from his medium foot armed and light foot armed with with crossbows. They decided being in front of wall of crossbow was not healthy and that retreat was the best option.
My pike and heavy foot advanced rapidly up the centre. I wanted to get to grip with his six dismounted knights armed with heavy weapons, which I saw as the weakness in his line. My light foot armed with crossbows failed disrupt the dismounted knights. The pikes then burst though the light foot, disrupting the light foot. The pikes smashed into the dismounted knights. The pikes then proceeded grind down the dismounted knights armed with heavy weapons. The dismounted knights losing two bases of knights and becoming disrupted.
In response his eight infantry armed with heavy weapons charged my battle group of four infantry armed with heavy weapons. After short and bloody fight my battle group was overwhelmed and auto broke. The light foot tested for their cohesion, because of seeing friend's break, and rolled a two! Being ready disrupted they broke. Thankfully the pike passed their test for seeing friends breaks. Instead, it inspired the pike to greater efforts and they routed, pursued and then auto broke the dismounted knights.
My cavalry armed with crossbows moved up to shoot at his knights. They disrupted the knights, but his knights bolstered back up. His medium foot then charged. My cavalry successfully evaded his medium foot.
While this was happenng his knights charged my battle group of crossbows, disrupting them and destroying two bases. In response my cavalry armed crossbows charged both his knights and medium foot. Simultanously, a battle group of knights (which had a general attached), that had been racing round his unguarded left flank , smashed into the flank of the medium foot.
My battle group of crossbowmen then broke. I also lost two bases from my cavalry. While his medium foot became fragmented
At the sametime my battle group of six cavalry armed with lances charged his battle group of six cavalry armed with lances. In subsequent combat my battle group lost base and was disrupted. Then his battle group was disrupted.
While this was happening my light horse where bolstered back up to steady and my light foot managed to rally to fragmented.
Then David finally rolled a 9 and flank march, one battle group of four knights, came on the left flank. But it was too late. His medium foot routed. My knights failed to catch his medium foot in the subsequent rout> However, my next impact phase my knights charged his knights in the centre in flank. This, combined with a charged from another battle group of knights, that had been in reserved behind my crossbow, broke his knights in the centre.
At the point David conceded the battle. My Later Medieval Germans have proved themselves again, achieving another glorious victory.
Next time I promise not to forget the camera!
