6 Games from IWF Rome on Madaxeman.com

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:19 pm

The Offical Historical Record of this momentous event is now available for perusal online.

daleivan · Post by **daleivan** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:59 pm

madaxeman wrote:The Offical Historical Record of this momentous event is now available for perusal online.

Cool. Thanks!

And congratulations on your triumph

Dale

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:22 pm

Was that the same girl in Greece?

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:41 pm

However if you'd managed to micro-measure the angles and distances of your troops just before the Skythian lancers had charged in you would have won far more easily, and comprehensively. The basic problem is that occasionally you forget you are playing a game, and start treating your troops like, well, real troops on a real battlefield - which totally undermines the strengths of the excessive maneuverability they enjoy in FoG. Your opponent didn't make these mistakes, and worked all the angles, measured all the cheesy arcs of charge, and managed to know the evade rules so well that it was practically impossible for you to catch enough of his army to win.

I think I will take that as a compliment

Although anybody with a Dom Rom Swarm taking the moral highground......

However, you did record a moral victory. And even I concede that a real victory against such a heinous force of evil under FoG is impossible, so I suppose you did OK.

Even if it wasn't quite an actual victory

Incidentally, the Cavalry weren't Assyrian - they were Babylonian. If you're going to take the P*ss at least get it right

Hepius · Post by **Hepius** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:52 am

Terrific reports. Enjoyed the reading.

Congratulations!

peterrjohnston · Post by **peterrjohnston** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:40 am

philqw78 wrote:Was that the same girl in Greece?

A central london club groupie? Must be a wargaming first!

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:07 am

peterrjohnston wrote:
philqw78 wrote:Was that the same girl in Greece?
A central london club groupie? Must be a wargaming first!

Apparently she looks like a girl I met in Greece

BlackPrince · Post by **BlackPrince** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:56 am

Tim, have you heard of term armchair travel? Well with your great AAR posts you have created armchair war gamming.

Keith

P.S congrats on your win Rome.

Skullzgrinda · Post by **Skullzgrinda** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:36 am

madaxeman - I laughed till my sides hurt with some of your observations and critiques in these AARs!

Thank you for the link. The site is EXTREMELY helpful.

MatteoPasi · Post by **MatteoPasi** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:37 pm

Grats for the victory and for the report

This is mine battle report of the last match ( I was vs (re)Porter at 6th play ) :

Tim was supposed to attach in the center, if He manage to get me I was able to close the match in a very fast way and even if I had lot of unit with bow I knew thet shoting will be not so important with all that armoured poelple with a IC.
So I decided to try to delay him in the centre and in mine right flank while trying to get some point in the left, If I was able to broke his flanck also the centre's crush will be different.
My first error was that I deploy few units where I wanted to attack, the second was that when I've attached his flannk I wasn't able to do it properly and each of mine unit fight alone versus 2 of him.
So I didn't won the flank and when he got my center the battle was lost.

Tim won becouse he had a better list (not in general, but fightin against mine), did only 1 error (and I did many) and becouse he deployed in a very effective way so the winner was the better player.

I hope to see Brits, Spanish and all others next year, does someone know where the IWC will be held ?

Matteo

MARVIN_THE_ARVN · Post by **MARVIN_THE_ARVN** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:28 pm

Nice reports and some valid points regarding the micro-measuring of angles and distances, too much of this in a game puts me off FOG.

Although anybody with a Dom Rom Swarm taking the moral highground......

Thats also a fair point

Legionbuilder · Post by **Legionbuilder** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:13 pm

For the GLORY of Rome!!!

Semper Vigilo, Fortus, Paratus et Fidelis

david53 · Post by **david53** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:21 pm

Legionbuilder wrote:For the GLORY of Rome!!!

Semper Vigilo, Fortus, Paratus et Fidelis

Dom Rom glory then.

david53 · Post by **david53** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:24 pm

MARVIN_THE_ARVN wrote:Nice reports and some valid points regarding the micro-measuring of angles and distances, too much of this in a game puts me off FOG.

I can think off one rule set that mm's* do count in movement.

*feel free to get the pun

domblas · Post by **domblas** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:09 pm

hi strategos,

question about ur mixed Bg of 6 bases HF/LF or MF/LF. how do u contract and expand with ur mixed Bg ? I saw that u use a special configuration with HF in first rank and mixed HF and LF in second rank. interesting but can u pass easily from a classical 2 base front formation to such a 3 base front ?

flamingpig0 · Post by **flamingpig0** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:53 pm

MARVIN_THE_ARVN wrote:Nice reports and some valid points regarding the micro-measuring of angles and distances, too much of this in a game puts me off FOG.

With that and the 'Late Roman' competition armies consisting of numerous units it's beginning to seem like 5th Edition WRG all over again!

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:24 pm

domblas wrote:hi strategos,

question about ur mixed Bg of 6 bases HF/LF or MF/LF. how do u contract and expand with ur mixed Bg ? I saw that u use a special configuration with HF in first rank and mixed HF and LF in second rank. interesting but can u pass easily from a classical 2 base front formation to such a 3 base front ?

No reaz why not. S'long as u have even ranks (or the last rank the shortest) itz legal, innit?

Pass a test, expand and move...

6 Games from IWF Rome on Madaxeman.com

6 Games from IWF Rome on Madaxeman.com

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