Slitherine

Challenge v george123 posted. pw george

All other games for me complete/in progress

Sla Challenges posted for:

Cunningcairn
Leonidas048
MatsuHiroshi
Ulysisgrunt

pw tullius

Div A Challenge for Turk1964:
PW: HappyHungryHippo

Are you hungryan enough to defeat me? Come and see!

Div A challenge for ianiow:
PW: ianiow

Will the goddess of victory smile upon you, Nikeforian?

Div A

ianiow (Moldies) 9/38
macsen (Polish) 28/28

Div D

Attn. mchargmg

Challenge posted PM on it's way

Password

Super Broad

.. it's a cricketing thing

Londo (Ottomans) 40/62 vs Pantherboy (Serbs) 60/56
Pantherboy (Ottomans) 42/62 vs Londo (Serbs) 56/56

Very close games in the end!

Comments on the Scenario:

Kudos to SP for another interesting and colourful historical scenario, with a nice variety of units. It seems virtually impossible for Serbia to win, but I guess that corresponds with history. My only query is whether the Serbs might be given some MF with light spear to give them more fighting power in the little clumps of forest and scrub that dot the map. Serbia is a mountainous and heavily forested region, so it seems odd that they'd be helpless in close terrain.

Comments on Strategy:

I started off quite poorly, letting several light units get trapped and killed. Pantherboy had a combined margin of victory across both games of around 5 to 10 until the end. Indeed, for much of my time playing, I was wondering how to escape with an honourable loss rather than an embarrassing blowout.

We had radically different strategies. With the Ottos, Pantherboy formed them into close lines to bring crushing firepower to bear. I spread the Otto cavalry out and tried to manoeuver. I held the Janissaries back around the central fortified area, which I believe was their standard doctrine. They were very useful later in the game, operating in and around the ditches and broken ground.

With the Serbs, Pantherboy moved forward aggressively from the start. I kept most of the Serbs huddling behind the river, while I concentrated a group of knights and supporting troops to sally forth on the right side.

In the end though, luck played a big part, and I had the better of it. There were a bunch of charges in which I got a lucky instant fragment on the defender. And I got some excellent rallies.

So Londo has beaten pantherboy 26-20 on the tie-breaker and will play ericdoman1 in the final! Congratulations to Paul and commiserations to Steve.

Regarding your comments about the scenario, Paul, I will be reviewing all my scenarios when we get the new version of FOG and I will bear your comments in mind. I have played many battles where the Serbians have won but I see no basic objection to including some MF in their army.

Division C

Posted 4 challenges for my remaining games pw:george

mcwar
Triaxe
tullius
Ulysisgrunt

Division B

macsen (Handamids) 30/38, defeated kmaher (Early Bulgarian) 46/35.

The Bulgars fought well but a combination of lancers and dailami falling on one wing did for them.

That me finished and I hope to never see another average lancer, useless buggers charge everything and then lose.

cheers

macsen

Division C

Matsu Hiroshi 34/36 beats mcwar 32/31
Matsu Hiroshi 16/36 beats tullius 37/35

Thanks for all.

Div C

cunningcairn (Khazar) 25/32 defeats MatsuHiroshi (Umayyad) 36/36

Division C

I have two losses but only one is posted. One to ZumHeuringer which has been posted and the other to Ulysisgrunt which has not been posted. Score against Ulysisgrunt was Khazar 32/32 and his Early Byzantine 34/37.

Div C

cunningcairn (Khazar) 31/32 defeats Leonidas048 (Bulgars) 31/31

Thanks for a very good close game!

Div A
Sharkall (Dacians) 32/42 vs claymore (Bosporans) 37/34

by Cunningcairn » 22 Nov 2013 10:12

I have two losses but only one is posted. One to ZumHeuringer which has been posted and the other to Ulysisgrunt which has not been posted. Score against Ulysisgrunt was Khazar 32/32 and his Early Byzantine 34/37.

Ok I will fix that up tonight when I post the updated Chart. So was the result not posted at all because I cant see it anywhere I may be blind though

Division B

Clawing his way up from the depths.....
Ulysisgrunt 's Judeans 33/45 over
kmaher's Ptolmaics 37/34