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Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:36 pm
by 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
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:37 pm
by rbodleyscott
ggarynorman wrote: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
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 4:33 pm
by 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
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 6:21 pm
by flatsix518
Is there anyone in Pod 1 looking for a game?
I've got a slot open on my dance card.
John
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 7:55 pm
by 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
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:05 pm
by ggarynorman
Gents please add a 1 to your password. RBS clearly needs bank security 4 character passwords
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:17 pm
by 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).
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:23 pm
by rbodleyscott
ggarynorman wrote: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?
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:25 pm
by flatsix518
Results posted to here.
John
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:26 pm
by flatsix518
flatsix518 wrote: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
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:49 pm
by Tiopepe
Battle created for Ulysisgrunt.
I will take Spanish-Imperial. Password: Alburquerque
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:55 pm
by 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
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:15 pm
by cavehobbit
deadtorius wrote: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

Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:51 pm
by 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
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:08 pm
by flatsix518
Results recorded to here.
John
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:07 am
by ggarynorman
Apologies i will reset all challenges of mine to very wide.
See above for passwords
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:55 am
by rbodleyscott
ggarynorman wrote:Apologies i will reset all challenges of mine to very wide.
See above for passwords
Challenge accepted.
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:55 am
by 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.
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:17 am
by iandavidsmith
Good Luck
Ian[/quote]
Hi Ian!
It seems that the password is incorrect. I've tried to put it in capitals too.
shawkhan2 wrote:
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
Re: Pike & Shot Caracole II
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 12:26 pm
by 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.