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Breaking News from the pamphleteers The Jacobites bitten back by Swedish bold beefy blitz Returning the the favour GGDee' men in blue inflicted 45% Hidde's laddies losing face before ultimate slaughter at 19%

Front row seats were given to the Swedish cavalry with the Swedish foot left running to keep up. Yes, this is the battle (Seers say) that later inspires a Marshal of France named Ney at a place called Waterloo. No fancy tactics here... just one line at full gallop with the second line left to gather in the confused bewildered men in dresses. Their women and children laminated their slaughter at the hands of the merciless mounted masqueraded marauders. And to polish off the demoralized Scots... a bonus Swedish two unit cavalry march at the exact right time in the exact right place!
A quick, good game of two halves and we'd like to thank the ladies for the plate Thanks for games Hidde always enjoyable.

First time had to post in this thread

IDS (Polish) 16% loss routed Cromlechi (Swedish) (50%)

Good game ,
Cheers
Ian

Cromlechi and I played out his Russians 1649-61 vs my Danish 1649-77.
Russian bear became Danish bacon.

Result was
Russians 48%
vs
Danish 18%

To rub salt my Russians are getting the benefit of a big hill and lots of rough ground.

iandavidsmith wrote:First time had to post in this thread

IDS (Polish) 16% loss routed Cromlechi (Swedish) (50%)

Good game ,
Cheers
Ian

And you handled it very well Ian

Where can I sign up for the 'how to be a winner' lectures?

cromlechi wrote:Where can I sign up for the 'how to be a winner' lectures?

Nooooo! crom... you missed that lecture, this is the second one in the series, scroll down...it's a lecture on how not to be a whinner The first lecture gave us gems of advice such as ... get your opponent to choose Jacobites on an open plain

As per lecture 1 Ian got the Jacobites on an open plain vs the Poles

Triarius Polish 1680-98 40%
IDS Jacobite Irish 1689-91 62%

Here is hoping for lots of bog on the return.

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Kelen2 wrote:After a scrappy fight my French have beaten Oogieboogie's Imperial Austrians 48% v 60%

Is Rex back online Kelen?

Assuming so as he's been posting moves regularly.

Triarius wrote:As per lecture 1 Ian got the Jacobites on an open plain vs the Poles

Triarius Polish 1680-98 40%
IDS Jacobite Irish 1689-91 62%

Here is hoping for lots of bog on the return.

There does appear to be an awful lot of Jacobite games turning up all of a sudden, that's at least 3 pairs of games they're, (getting their butts kicked), in.

Some of us dream of Jacobites. Would make a change from all these Russians hordes.

My second game against Gdodds saw my Swedes smash his Russians I lost 12% he lost 41%. So almost a repeat of our first game but with the armies swapped.

My last game against Hidde hangs in the balance 43% to 42% with us both being very battered

Triarius wrote:Cromlechi and I played out his Russians 1649-61 vs my Danish 1649-77.
Russian bear became Danish bacon.

Result was
Russians 48%
vs
Danish 18%

To rub salt my Russians are getting the benefit of a big hill and lots of rough ground.

The big hill and rough ground worked
Result was
Triarius Russians 1649-61 16%
Cromlechi Danish 1649-77 48%

Not a map for the Danes. Thanks to Cromlechi for both games.

On a torrid affair on rubbish terrain the French managed to overcome the dice gods and skilled play to triumph over the Imperialists 49/61

rexhurley wrote:On a torrid affair on rubbish terrain the French managed to overcome the dice gods and skilled play to triumph over the Imperialists 49/61

They're called mirror games for a reason, (and die gods and skill aside), the result was an almost perfect mirror of the 1st game, (which was French 48 / Imperialists 60%). Lack of decent impact horse on the Imperials side means that the French horse just runs over them, whereas their foot tends to give a good showing against their opposite numbers.

My second game against Hidde was a victory for my Russians 53% 7 points against his Imperialists 63% 5.3 points. A tough game that swung back and forth several times until his army collapsed with exhaustion in the last turn.

In the return match TGMs Jacobites were given an unenviable task against my Spanish. On a flat open field the Scots only cover was a small wood in the centre of their line, and an even smaller patch of rough on their right flank. With no horse to speak of, and faced with the prospect of cowering in the wood whilst the Spanish mopped up those units in the open, the Scots decided it was better to go down fighting. Whilst some highlanders in the rough held off the Spanish cavalry on their right, and a solid 3 deep phalanx of nearly 30 units of highlanders, supported by a few P&S, bravely charged out towards the Spanish line.

Despite their numbers and speed it was not to be as marauding Spanish horse crashed into the left flank of the phalanx, with 1 unit routing almost half the front line on but the first turn of combat. Run down my horse on their flank, and facing a barrage of shot to their front the phalanx was quickly shattered. Only a few scattered units able to actually reach the Spanish foot where the claymores did some lethal work in amongst the pikes.

A heroic effort ultimately doomed to fail left nearly 4,000 highlanders dead and dying on the field, and another 5,600 facing captivity or scattered across the countryside. There will be much wailing and lamenting in the glens tonight.

A Spanish victory 11% v 44%

Kelen 9.3 v TGM 1.1

Kelen2 wrote: A heroic effort ultimately doomed to fail left nearly 4,000 highlanders dead and dying on the field, and another 5,600 facing captivity or scattered across the countryside. There will be much wailing and lamenting in the glens tonight.
A Spanish victory 11% v 44%
Kelen 9.3 v TGM 1.1

A timely reminder to catch my lecture on Jacobites or as I like to term them, ...the "You can even afford to monkey around when you Wacko Jacko" lectures
Standings for Box 2 with 1 match to go between Youngr and Hidde (exciting stuff!)
Youngr 35
Hidde 33.7
Awesum4 33.5
GDod 21

Seems GDod and Awesum4 have not had lady fortuna on their side this series! The question still remains will Youngr become wiser or will Hidde finally reveal himself on the pinnacle of the boxed mountain. We wait... but while we do check out the other standing on this link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

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A timely reminder to catch my lecture on Jacobites or as I like to term them, ...the "You can even afford to monkey around when you Wacko Jacko" lectures
Standings for Box 2 with 1 match to go between Youngr and Hidde (exciting stuff!)
Youngr 35
Hidde 33.7
Awesum4 33.5
GDod 21

Seems GDod and Awesum4 have not had lady fortuna on their side this series! The question still remains will Youngr become wiser or will Hidde finally reveal himself on the pinnacle of the boxed mountain. We wait... but while we do check out the other standing on this link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing[/quote]

Awesum4 playing masses of Russians was dreadful especially in awful terrain!

The final game between myself and Hidde is a real nail-biter between my Danes and his Swedes. The battle has swung to and fro and both armies are utterly battered with a result due very soon. I think I have a nose ahead but any more catastrophic cavalry pursuits could easily change that.

Richard

Final game of Box 2 completed.

Youngr (Danish) lost 40% vs Hidde (Swedish) lost 62%

Youngr 6.0 + 2.2 = 8.2
Hidde = 4.0

A great game that went to and fro until the greater numbers and resilience of the Danish broke through. The usual frustration on both sides with units going on until autobreaking yet other units disrupting as soon as you go near them, cavalry pursuing in odd directions etc.

I look forward to another competition sometime in the future so many thanks to Rex and Gdod for doing all the organising.

Cheers
Richard

Confirmed results of Box 2

Congratulations Richard, no doubt a well-deserved victory!

Youngr 43.2
Hidde 37.7
Awesum4 33.5
GDod 21

Very few results from Box 4 between Shawkshan2, BrentBJ, LDFM, Doley50
No results received from Box5 between lascar, Seaport, Bloodphoenix, Ulysisgrunt