Pike & Shot Caracole II

[deadtorius]

Last of my Pod 2 challenges

Aryaman
Scots Covenanter 1648-1552 VS New Model Army 1646-1660 PW: deadman

Hrothgar
Swedish 1630-1634 VS German Catholic PW: garetic

vadmin84
Bohemian Revolt VS German Catholic PW: vadtorius

[rbodleyscott]

Apologies for my tardiness. life should be back to normal tomorrow when I can receive and broadcast challenges.

good luck to all in the coming melee

Gary

Gary, here is a challenge proposal for you from me:

Transylvanian 1632-1645 vs Imperial 1619-1632

[ulysisgrunt]

Dear Tiopepe & thegreymouser
Here are my selected periods for both of you!

We will play:
France 1526-1549 vs.
Spanish Imperial 1534-1542
Please create the battles!


Danny Weitz

[flatsix518]

Is there anyone in Pod 1 looking for a game?

I've got a slot open on my dance card.

John

[ggarynorman]

I have chosen the following sides and will set up the challenges below
Shawkhan2 I Chose French PW sha
Dortmund I chose Polish PW dor
Ian David smith I chose Royalist PW ian
Richard bodley Scott I choose Imperialist PW ric

challenges will be posted tonight Sunday by 9pm. I may be up for some Super Bowl turns

cheers

[ggarynorman]

Gents please add a 1 to your password. RBS clearly needs bank security 4 character passwords

[rbodleyscott]

First round game result:

rbodleyscott (French 1526-1549) (0%) won vs Dortmund (Spanish-Imperial 1534-1542) (59%)

A much closer game than the final result suggests. The French won the war of the skirmishers, but a massive push of pike in the centre with 20,000 men straining every nerve in a confused mass could have gone either way, and had it gone against the French would easily have eclipsed the trivial victories of the skirmishers. The result hinged on a French unit of landsknechts fighting on for several turns while disrupted, and the Spanish ones not doing so. (Pay perhaps overdue).

[rbodleyscott]

I have chosen the following sides and will set up the challenges below
Shawkhan2 I Chose French PW sha
Dortmund I chose Polish PW dor
Ian David smith I chose Royalist PW ian
Richard bodley Scott I choose Imperialist PW ric

challenges will be posted tonight Sunday by 9pm. I may be up for some Super Bowl turns

cheers

Gary, the tournament rules require the games to be played on Very Wide (32 square wide maps). Would you like to cancel and re-setup the challenges?

[flatsix518]

Results posted to here.

John

[flatsix518]

Is there anyone in Pod 1 looking for a game?

I've got a slot open on my dance card.

John

To clarify -- I will accept concessions in lieu of games...



John

[Tiopepe]

Battle created for Ulysisgrunt.

I will take Spanish-Imperial. Password: Alburquerque

[deadtorius]

Deadtorius Ottomans 51% victorious over cavehobbit CatholicLeague 26%.

A most excellent game with one of the catholic raw later tercios holding out in melee for almost the entire game. It even managed to break one Ottoman cavalry unit. Second last turn had a sharp sweep in favor of the infidels as 4 or 6 Ottoman units broke and ran during that turn, only to see 3 of them rally back and the raw tercio finally broke and with it went the Catholic Leagues will to fight.
Initially I had my cavalry stacked on the opposite flank of the Catholics so had to spend the first 2 turns running across the map to get to where I could face off against the infidels. After that it was stand back shooting and let them charge me and swarm into them.
A very enjoyable game cavehobbit, thank you. That second last turn had me wondering if you were going to turn the tables into a win against me

[cavehobbit]

Deadtorius Ottomans 51% victorious over cavehobbit CatholicLeague 26%.

A most excellent game with one of the catholic raw later tercios holding out in melee for almost the entire game. It even managed to break one Ottoman cavalry unit. Second last turn had a sharp sweep in favor of the infidels as 4 or 6 Ottoman units broke and ran during that turn, only to see 3 of them rally back and the raw tercio finally broke and with it went the Catholic Leagues will to fight.
Initially I had my cavalry stacked on the opposite flank of the Catholics so had to spend the first 2 turns running across the map to get to where I could face off against the infidels. After that it was stand back shooting and let them charge me and swarm into them.
A very enjoyable game cavehobbit, thank you. That second last turn had me wondering if you were going to turn the tables into a win against me

Good game. Even though I was uphill most of the time it felt like I was struggling uphill... I was frustrated that my initial cavalry attacks on my left did not engaged your units in melee, instead your units fell back most of the time and you could continue shooting at me. One of those games you learnt a lot.

Our next game:
Royalist 1643-44 vs Parliament+Scots 1644-46
Both being infidels this time

[deadtorius]

cavehobbitOur next game:
Royalist 1643-44 vs Parliament+Scots 1644-46
Both being infidels this time

Next challenge is up I took the Parliament and Scots so you get to wear the crown, for now. PW is: deadhobbit
See you in game

[flatsix518]

Results recorded to here.

John

[ggarynorman]

Apologies i will reset all challenges of mine to very wide.

See above for passwords

[rbodleyscott]

Apologies i will reset all challenges of mine to very wide.

See above for passwords

Challenge accepted.

[moncholee]

I managed a win with my Italian Wars Spanish against rumguff French. I was lucky to resist with one of my keils long enogh to distract two of his, including one of the swiss ones, while I mainly fought the non-keil part of his army.

Thank you rumguff for the game. I will post new challenges son.

[iandavidsmith]

Good Luck
Ian[/quote]

Hi Ian!

It seems that the password is incorrect. I've tried to put it in capitals too.

Your favorite army! I've hit the target, then. Battle accepted! Good luck.

HI Dortmund ,
sorry i have must have missed this post ,
i spelt it wrong , the password should be impale


Ian

[rbodleyscott]

First round game result:

rbodleyscott (Imperial 1619-1632) (15%) won vs Dortmund (Danish 1625-1629) (49%)

This one was a very interesting battle which I could not begin to describe. Suffice it to say that the victory was down to the cavalry action, which allowed some of the Danish infantry also to be ridden down.