Caracole II -- Phase 2

[TheGrayMouser]

TGM and Khan,

Sorry about the slow pick up on your games.

Both challenges are armies I've never played, so it is taking me a little longer than normal to decide.

I'll try to pick up a bit.

John

bahh, both sides have peasants with funny pantaloons and both sides have lots of French Kniggits

[batesmotel]

Challenge game posted for Aryaman, password "aryaman". I took the Huguenots and pot luck terrain since you didn't request anything specific.

Chris

[batesmotel]

Pod A

My challenge for Pantherboy is Russians 1560-97 vs. Ottomans 1560-1609. Might as well try this now that it's legitimate.

Chris

[flatsix518]

Results posted to here.

John

[rbodleyscott]

Pod A result:

rbodleyscott (Swedish 1622-1629) won vs Moncholee (Polish 1618-1632) (55% to 61%)


As can be seen from the score this was a very close game. The Poles were able to run rings round the Swedes, and the early salvo units without regimental guns had such pitiful firepower that they could do very little to the Polish cavalry. However they easily beat the Polish infantry.

Eventually the Hussars ran out of soft targets and the Swedes still had plenty of infantry left. Although their volleys were only killing handfuls of Polish cavalry at at time, eventually it proved just enough.

[pantherboy]

Pod A results

My challenges:

Pantherboy (Covenanter 1639-1641) (33%) won vs rbodleyscott (Russian 1630-1648) (59%)
Pantherboy (Covenanter 1639-1641) (41%) won vs Aryaman (Russian 1630-1648) (62%)
Pantherboy (Covenanter 1639-1641) (26%) won vs Cavehobbit (Russian 1630-1648) (55%)
Pantherboy (Russian 1630-1648) (64%) lost vs Tiopepe (Covenanter 1639-1641) (49%)
Pantherboy (Covenanter 1639-1641) (45%) won vs batesmotel (Russian 1630-1648) (64%)
Pantherboy (Covenanter 1639-1641) (14%) won vs moncholee (Russian 1630-1648) (52%)
Pantherboy (New Model Army 1646-1660) (%) ? vs Dortmund (Scots Covenanter 1648-1652) (%)

Opponents challenge:
Pantherboy (French Huguenot 1577-1588) (10%) won vs Aryaman (French Catholic 1562-1588) (47%)
Pantherboy (Royalist 1645-1648) (50%) won vs Cavehobbit (New Model Army 1646-1660) (60%)
Pantherboy (Dutch 1610-1639) (22%) won vs rbodleyscott (Spanish 1610-1620) (53%)
Pantherboy (Dutch 1590-1609) (26%) won vs Tiopepe (Spanish 1600-1609) (57%)
Pantherboy (Ottoman Turkish 1560-1609) (22%) won vs batesmotel (Russian 1560-1597) (50%)
Pantherboy (French 1550-1559) (%) ? vs moncholee (Spanish-Imperial 1543-1559) (%)
Pantherboy (?) (%) ? vs Dortmund (?) (%) - no challenge yet

Could I please get the challenges from my opponents otherwise there will be too many games in a rush.

[flatsix518]

TGM and Shawkhan2,

I've posted our games.

John

[flatsix518]

Pod B Battle result:

Hutze is too modest to claim his victory over me.

Hutze (Italian 1494-1530) 11% won vs flatsix518 (French 1494-1525) 44%

Not much to say except that Hutze outplayed me all the way from jump.

Good game and well played!

John

[flatsix518]

Results posted to here.

John

[rbodleyscott]

Pod A

If anyone still needs to set me a challenge, please could they do so ASAP because I only have 11 days left to finish my games.

[rbodleyscott]

Pod A result:

rbodleyscott (German Catholic 1632-1638) won vs cavehobbit (French 1635-1642) (16% vs 41%)

Initially the battle seemed set to become a stalemate, as the Imperialists advanced on to a hill and then held position hoping that the slope would offset the French impact advantage.

This being the case, the French were reluctant to close and held back.

However, the Imperialists managed to infiltrate a unit of hussars behind the French lines and take out both their batteries of artillery.

Given that if nothing further happened the victory would go to the Emperor, Monseigneur cavehobbit ordered his men to advance.

There followed a hard fought fight, but the Imperialists' advantage of position, and their two untouched batteries of artillery, decided the result.

[cavehobbit]

Pod A result:

rbodleyscott (German Catholic 1632-1638) won vs cavehobbit (French 1635-1642) (16% vs 41%)

Initially the battle seemed set to become a stalemate, as the Imperialists advanced on to a hill and then held position hoping that the slope would offset the French impact advantage.

This being the case, the French were reluctant to close and held back.

However, the Imperialists managed to infiltrate a unit of hussars behind the French lines and take out both their batteries of artillery.

Given that if nothing further happened the victory would go to the Emperor, Monseigneur cavehobbit ordered his men to advance.

There followed a hard fought fight, but the Imperialists' advantage of position, and their two untouched batteries of artillery, decided the result.

As the Imperialists took up positions on a hill to their left, the French moved their left wing including most of their cavalry in an attempt to force the Imperialists to leave the hill or spread out their units. But led by the expetience General RBS the Imperialist held their line so no weaknesses could be found by the French.

Annoyingly the Imperial light horses managed to find a gap in the French line and could attack the French artillery from behind.

The French left wing maneuvering too longer than expected and therefore there was no time to keep on trying to outmanouver the Imperials on their hill. As the battle would be lost although either side was far from routed, the French thought it would be more fun having a good fight before night fell rather than just stand there looking at each others.

Thanks for the game, well played!

[iandavidsmith]

ATT: Vadim84

Challenge proposed

ECW
Royalist 1642 to 1643
vrs
Parliament 1642 to 1643

Your choice and good luck
Ian

[susji]

More than a little late I'm afraid but to all my Pod C opponents lets go with

Russian 1560-97 vs Ottoman 1560-1609

It a filter off Tercio to Salvo game, so let me know if this will be a problem.

Cheers

Ken

The game is created. I choose The russian. PW: ivan

[susji]

Sushi

Challenge accepted and set up.. I've gone with the Dutch.. Pw susji

Cheers

Ken

Ok. Thanks. Good luck!

[TheGrayMouser]

to Rumguff

I got your pm that you chose sides for my challenge but you forgot to send me the password!
Figure id post here too in case your in box is full, cheers!

[deadtorius]

kmaher (53%) victorious vs deadtorius (60%)
A close match and a real blood bath. If some of kmahers Poles would have been kind enough to lose cohesion after taking large numbers of hits the results might have been different. Polish stubbornness won through in the end. A good game and thank you and congratulations kmaher.
Perhaps I will be lucky in our other game...

[iandavidsmith]

ATT
The Graymouseketeer
and
Shawkhan2

Challenges proposed

ECW

New Model Army 1646-1660
vrs
Royalists 1645-1648

your pick and good luck ,
Ian

[Tiopepe]

Challenge for Pantherboy:

Spanish 1600-1609 vs Dutch 1590-1609

[shawkhan2]

For iandavidsmith:

Challenge accepted.

I took Parliament as my hanky-waving wrist is sprained from shooting my longbow.

You can probably guess the PW, but here it is, khannnn

Best Wishes, John