Fm Bouvines 1214.zip- (5.43 KiB) Downloaded 283 times
Designer's notes:
This is another one (last one!) that has been on the back burner for a while now, that I felt the absolute urge to finish. now i'm free.
I have mostly used Verbruggen's detailed breakdown of the forces (in 'The art of warfare in western europe in the middle ages').
I felt particularly clever with how i dealt with simulating the events of the battle, of which the outline is:
1) the great crisis in the French centre as the Imperial troops bore down on the weak French foot. Philip barely escaped with his life, followed by a potent French counter attack.
2) the purely cavalry fight on the French right.
3) the stalemate on the French left until the end of the battle when the Brabancon mercenaries were surrounded.
4) a large number of late arriving Flemish foot never got into the fight (they came they saw and they didn't like it).
Anyway I'll let you find out how i played with Fog mechanisms to get the required flow. Just watch out for the immobile units!
All and all, a tight small 12 turn scenario that has been extensively tuned to feel very historical without the imposition of house rules.
Fogman
