Slitherine

Oh! the calamity of brothers in arms ag'in each other and the littered remains of cared for homes and farms from centuries of toil...woe betide these rebel dreams of equality and fraternity lest the take root in the European soils of our sons and sons of sons...yet, woken from the General's slumber a premonition... of Frenchmen around a large meat cleaver has spilled out from these lucid dreams... Oh woe!

awesum4 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:28 am I am happy to change to medium armies. I prefer large armies, but its not a big deal.

Medium armies won't make the games quicker as they are based on % lost. Individual moves will be slightly quicker but battles will probably last the same number of turns as you have more units trying to break more units to get the same %.

The battles we fight here don't resemble actual ECW battles not because of the battlefield size but because of the way players use their armies. We mostly spread our armies out in a single line. ECW units were always deployed in 2 or 3 lines. At Edgehill the Royalists were outnumbered but instead of extending their line they deployed 2 lines deep and charged. At Marston Moor the Royalist infantry were in 2 lines, with 2 lines of cavalry behind them and the cavalry were in 2 lines, while the parliamentarians had both their foot and cavalry in 3 lines. At Naseby the vastly outnumbered Royalists still deployed in 2 lines rather than extend their line to try to stop the enemy outflanking them. Large bodies of cavalry being sent on outflanking manoeuvres didn't really happen, well not in the 3 battles mentioned


So if anyone who hasn't already expressed a wish for medium battles would like to do so, and anyone who wishes to stick with large armies would also express their wish I will gauge if there is really a groundswell for change before we start round 3.