Ever-Green League - 900 AD

[Stew101]

Stew101 (Scots 851 - 1051 AD) challenges Hari72 ( Andalusian 756 - 1056 AD).

Hi don't think we have played before would you like a match?

Let me know in the reply if you want to use any allies.

Regards Stewart.

[Hari72]

Yes, I'm ready, no allies! GO!

[ericdoman1]

Not trying to spoil anything but I thought we could only challenge players within 3 places of our position

[Hari72]

yes is true

[Stew101]

yes is true

Eric is right of course. (Hi Eric by the way, hope things are going well with you?)

I never liked the 3 place rule in the EGL.
I found it kept limiting me to playing the same players.
Some I'd had quite a few games against. Eric and I played quite a bit for example, when we were preparing for the Team World Cup.

So if your happy too I'd like to play the game. I've set it up ready.
We don't have to record the result into the League standings - just a 'pre-season friendly'.

Let me know if you want to proceed?

Regards Stewart.

[ericdoman1]

All good here thanks Stew, hope the same for you

Angus - BTW I think Stew's suggestion about playing anybody is spot on. If allowed, a further suggestion would be if a player who is 4 or more places above another wins, use the scoring system in place but deduct 1 from the winner. If a lower placed player wins, he will add 1 to his score

[Hari72]

yes is true

Eric is right of course. (Hi Eric by the way, hope things are going well with you?)

I never liked the 3 place rule in the EGL.
I found it kept limiting me to playing the same players.
Some I'd had quite a few games against. Eric and I played quite a bit for example, when we were preparing for the Team World Cup.

So if your happy too I'd like to play the game. I've set it up ready.
We don't have to record the result into the League standings - just a 'pre-season friendly'.

Let me know if you want to proceed?

Regards Stewart.

Okay go on!

[Stew101]

yes is true

Eric is right of course. (Hi Eric by the way, hope things are going well with you?)

I never liked the 3 place rule in the EGL.
I found it kept limiting me to playing the same players.
Some I'd had quite a few games against. Eric and I played quite a bit for example, when we were preparing for the Team World Cup.

So if your happy too I'd like to play the game. I've set it up ready.
We don't have to record the result into the League standings - just a 'pre-season friendly'.

Let me know if you want to proceed?

Regards Stewart.

Okay go on!

That's great, see you on the field.

[angusosborne]

I spotted that too, but decided that there's no need to enforce the rules strictly. I would rather be encouraging a game than discouraging one.

I like Eric's suggestion on modified scoring

[Stew101]

Stew101 - #trendsetter

[ericdoman1]

That's a first

[Karvon]

Karvon's Abassids defeated anderarcos11's Indians 40-14.

A winding stream ran across the field. On our side of the stream a long bluff ran from the center to the left edge, dominated by a high steep hill in about the center of the field. Jungle ran diagonally from the right end of the bluff back to our edge with some open areas threading through it. A large patch of rough lay beyond this jungle running up to the stream. On the far side of the stream, opposite the rough, ran a smaller bluff towards the center.

Having faced Rajiputs a few times before, I knew the combination of superior lancers and elephants was not something my own lancers could easily contend with and, given the masses of archers the Indians could field, I did not want to expose my troops any more or longer than necessary to their expected rain of arrows. Thus, I decided I would take a mostly infantry force with as much light foot and archers I could muster to screen my heavier troops and to hopefully wear down this elephants and lancers before they caused too much damage. I did take a number of light lancers and a small force of heavier lancers to act as a reserve. I also took 4 Ghiliman horse archers to harass his lancers and elephants. For my infantry, I maxed out my excellent Dailami and Bedouin foot to fight in and around the jungle and rough and took contingents of Moslem spear and Abid-al-shira heavy foot to hold gaps in the open.

I deployed my army completed in and behind the jungles on the right aside from a couple of light horse scouts put out to view the enemy deployment. My plan was to use the jungle and rough to screen the advance of my own heavy foot and cavalry once the Indians were drawn into fighting in the jungle and rough.

The Indians deployed, as I expected, to the far left with the more open fields providing the room to move and shoot. They had maybe half a dozen lancers on each flank, a group of five elephants in the center and large numbers of archers with a couple of light spears divided on each side of those. They had a handful of lights screening of on the flanks.

We did not initially reveal most of our forces, simply pushing forward a few lights to secure the rough ground or probe towards exposed flanks. Seeing no foe of note on the plains, the Indians began shifting left and wheeling to approach the jungles and rough held by our lights. We then pushed out our Dialami to secure the rough and began marching our heavies up to cross the stream behind that. We moved our Ghilman and swung wider to flank and cover the crossing of our foot.

The Indian left wing lancers moved up to contest the crossing, but we shot the leading elements up with our bow and then closed in to finish them off with a combo of our horse and infantry. The Indian elephants rolled up with their infantry a bit behind and wheeling to face the rough short of the jungle. We managed to disrupt most of the elephants with bowfire but a couple did close and cause some damage, but we flanked and broke them fairly quickly which led to chain reactions of further fragmentations and breaks from the previously disordered elephants. Some of the Indian archers we'd disrupted with previous fire got swept away in the process.

The surviving Indian lancers on the left were disrupted by our horse archers and hounded by our foot, so the Indians shifted some of his right wing lancers to reinforce them. We brought up our lancer reserve and began a flanking move around a small jungle patch covering their left, so that distracted the Indians from using them against our infantry.

A couple of the Indian right wing lancers attempted a flanking move around the jungle with some of the medium light spears attempting to sweep the jungle along side of them. They ran into my hidden Bedouins who delayed them long enough for us to win the day in the center and right.

[ericdoman1]

Eric - Khazar challenges Karvon Rajput

pw = karvon

sent by pm

[Karvon]

Eric - Khazar challenges Karvon Rajput

pw = karvon

sent by pm

Accepted

Karvon

[ericdoman1]

Eric defeated Karvon 42 - 17

Cheers Mark

[Karvon]

Karvon Khazar 738-969 AD challenges angusosborne Khorasanian 821-1003 AD

pm sent

[angusosborne]

Thanks Karvon, challenge accepted. I might be playing slow this week though.

[Karvon]

Thanks Karvon, challenge accepted. I might be playing slow this week though.

Games up; pw karvon

We can play at whatever speed is convenient for you; I have a number of other ongoing games, so no hurry.

Karvon

[angusosborne]

angusosborne (Khorasanian) defeats Karvon 63-32 (Khazar)

Karvon isn't someone who just lines up his troops and advances, he seems to always be looking to re-deploy to his advantage, but this time it worked out to my advantage. My cavalry got charges into the flanks and rear and although some over-pursued we eventually completely split his army into two chunks. One of which I could not catch, but I pinned enough of the army in the corner to break his army with my elephant ending up one square from the back of the board.

[Karvon]

My Khorasanians are up for a game if anyone is interested.

Karvon