Usk Match Reports

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:15 am

flamingpig0 wrote:
madaxeman wrote:
Derdertkd95 wrote:Confucious say:

"What is this wheel of cheese?"
The "If I turn 180, because I move faster/as fast as you I can retire away with impunity as you can never catch me in an IGOUGO ruleset"
One wonders what, in an actual battle, the assorted peasant infantry would make of the cream of Korean society and the military seeming to decamp the battlefield at a rate of knots. Would there be a strong chance of them deciding that the battle was lost and leaving.

or you just call it a feigned flight and say thats how fog models it on table and then it becomes perfectly reasonable?

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:52 am

Ghaznavid wrote:So you allowed a lone BG of lancers to be outmaneuvered by superior numbers of infantry. Sorry I can't really see the cheese, actually that's not even fishy in my book.

I would love to play you Karsten

kevinj · Post by **kevinj** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:24 am

An excellent read as ever. Were you entering stuff into the Battle Chronicler throughout the games?

marco · Post by **marco** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:34 am

great report
you are indispensable to fog
i think you are paid by slitherine !

you are like
the curry in the rice
the 6 on the dice
and the one on the dice for hammybal

keep on tim !

and congratulations to the guy who own the zhou : one of the best painted army i ever saw

ShrubMiK · Post by **ShrubMiK** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:43 pm

"this means that each foot BG will only fight 2 dice, reducing massively any chance of failing a CT"

True. But it also massively increases the chance having both foot BGs break

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:14 pm

kevinj wrote:An excellent read as ever. Were you entering stuff into the Battle Chronicler throughout the games?

Sheesh no - taking the photos and playing the game is hard enough - lugging round a laptop and updating it every turn would drive everyone concerned nuts!

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:06 pm

madaxeman wrote:
kevinj wrote:An excellent read as ever. Were you entering stuff into the Battle Chronicler throughout the games?
Sheesh no - taking the photos and playing the game is hard enough - lugging round a laptop and updating it every turn would drive everyone concerned nuts!

It can't be much harder than recording all the combat dice

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:36 pm

Hammy

Recording your combat dice is easy, either a 3 if elite or 2 if not...

pyrrhus · Post by **pyrrhus** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:09 am

Great report ! love the new maps !!! Hammy !WTF that last battle plan ?

Ghaznavid · Post by **Ghaznavid** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:06 am

philqw78 wrote:I would love to play you Karsten

Well I will be at the WIC in Athen. You just need to be lucky in the 1st round or do badly enough to have a chance in the subsequent rounds.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:13 am

Ghaznavid wrote:Well I will be at the WIC in Athen. You just need to be lucky in the 1st round or do badly enough to have a chance in the subsequent rounds.

Thats easy for me, I'm very lucky

kevinj · Post by **kevinj** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:24 am

Sheesh no - taking the photos and playing the game is hard enough - lugging round a laptop and updating it every turn would drive everyone concerned nuts!

In which case extra credit for being able to remember it so well afterwards.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:00 am

pyrrhus wrote:Great report ! love the new maps !!! Hammy !WTF that last battle plan ?

It was a long shot and it failed in spades

Essentially 9 VPs behind with close to identical armies we felt that a wild plan was in order. It was however the first time I have flank marched when moving second and I think I will probably never do that again. Not having the first move means that the other side are all over you in no time flat.

We would have lost even with average combat dice.

azrael86 · Post by **azrael86** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:38 pm

philqw78 wrote:
Ghaznavid wrote:Well I will be at the WIC in Athen. You just need to be lucky in the 1st round or do badly enough to have a chance in the subsequent rounds.
Thats easy for me, I'm very lucky

So we should call you "lucky Phil" ??

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:27 am

kevinj wrote:
Sheesh no - taking the photos and playing the game is hard enough - lugging round a laptop and updating it every turn would drive everyone concerned nuts!
In which case extra credit for being able to remember it so well afterwards.

Sadly I can still remember the more memorable games from 10 years ago

I fear that this one will stick in the mind for a long time.

kevinj · Post by **kevinj** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:29 am

Sadly I can still remember the more memorable games from 10 years ago

I can remember some of my games for quite a long time, but not to the extent of producing deployment maps and detailed reports.

I also know some people who can't remember who they played yesterday, or what they were using!

pyrrhus · Post by **pyrrhus** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:03 pm

Well I hope the meemory of that last battle Hammy will spur you on to some revenge games against madaxeman (just an good friendly online/tourney rivalry ) and victory

.Are the double games as enjoyable or more? (looks like loads of fun and less pressure) Do they play as QUICKLY ?

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:21 pm

I prefer doubles games because they are a bit more relaxed.

Timewise we play 900 points in 3 1/2 hours and 50%+ of the games complete so probably about the same speed as singles.

One day Hammy-bal will be proud of me