Knockout Tournament

davouthojo · Post by **davouthojo** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:38 am

The secret was the inspired general threatening to cut certain parts of the anatomy off any warriors who charged impetuously down the hill......

An epic match, with the victory coming from the warbands ability to absorb punishment and keep dishing it out, rather than good generalship. Note to self: remember not to engage pikes in open terrain......As happens with pike armies, when many of the front line units start falling below 75% (and 50% for the superior phalangites!) and getting disrupted, their army disappears all in one go, flattering the score

All looked even until the last turn, with the scores were 41/68 for the galatians and 44/67 for the ptolemies.

Final result:
Galatians 41/68
Ptolemy 70/67

Many thanks for the game, Ian! Now to find out why you named this game "guptafodder".......

andersm73 · Post by **andersm73** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:10 am

Excellent, another final!!

ROR/IF Final

pantherboy - Gupta Indian vs davouthojo - Galatian (Macedonian Invasion)

Good luck.

cheers
Matt

deeter · Post by **deeter** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:38 pm

Swiss (Deeter) 37/45 WINS
Burgundians (Panopap) 46/46

The enemy went all shooty and things looked grim for the Swiss until they caught up with the bowmen. Even fighting uphill and in broken ground the depleted Swiss did what they do best. A tense battle throughout.

Deeter

andersm73 · Post by **andersm73** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:55 pm

Hi All

Apologies for the slow posting of the second round matches for the SOA tourney, been away with work the last few days.

cheers
Matt

SOAII - 600pts Round 2

1) davouthojo - WOTR (Lancastrian) vs ericdoman1 - Medieval Irish (Early)

2) deeter - Swiss (Burgundian War) vs pantherboy - Later Scots Isles and Highlands

3) iversonjm - WOTR (Lancastrian) vs TheGrayMouser - Medieval German (Early)

4) Triarius - Anglo Irish vs Xiggy - Condotta Venice

Current deadline for matches to be completed is 30/09

ericdoman1 · Post by **ericdoman1** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:01 pm

Another to close to call game ruddy hell we do have very close games.

ericdoman1 (Med Irish, early) 77/80 vs davouthojo (WOTR Lancastrian) 65/65

Cheers and well played

Eric

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:13 pm

has anyone heard from Iverson?

Pm'd him a few days ago with a challenge for round 2 since none was forthcoming from him....

Havent seen him on the boards in a while.... Was he kidnapped over at the Britcon last month?

iversonjm · Post by **iversonjm** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:48 am

TheGrayMouser wrote:has anyone heard from Iverson?

Pm'd him a few days ago with a challenge for round 2 since none was forthcoming from him....

Havent seen him on the boards in a while.... Was he kidnapped over at the Britcon last month?

Sorry, PM didn't come through with the challenge and I missed the Round 2 announcement. Can you PM me again with the password?

pantherboy · Post by **pantherboy** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:29 pm

ROR/IF Final

pantherboy - Gupta Indian (58/94) vs davouthojo - Galatian (Macedonian Invasion) (69/67)

davouthojo · Post by **davouthojo** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:57 am

OK, a brief write-up of the IF 700 point final:

I took an instant dislike to the map. It was the one with the huge steep hill in the middle, and a line of trees at pantherboys back....after a quick calculation, it was clear my galatians would arrive at the bottom of the steep hill, just as pantherboys MF reached it's top.......and the line of trees and steep hill would provide a perfect refuge if I tried to hunt down the hundreds of archers....

So I camped in a corner, asked for a new map, but unfortunately pantherboy was intrigued by the challenge of digging me out of the corner....I tried to minimise my frontage but at one point I counted 37 archers firing every round. The light foot screen soaked up the hits to start, but then they started to auto-rout...by turn 10 or so, I was down 15BPs to zero, with several other units below 75%.....my frustrated galatians suffering without a possibility of revenge.....the centre started to get cluttered with the dazed remains of weakened units pulled off the front line.....

Then pantherboy's heavy chariots and lancers hit a weakened corner, splintering units in their path, my forces so densely packed that every rout disordered others. The odds for the impact foot to charge him were so bad, I didn't bother, leaving isolated units to go down instead....

But at last the galatians started to inflict damage, especially when they were able to reach the indian archers or javelinmen. There was a faint possibility of victory.....but this was squashed by the elephants, who stood there like rocks holding the galatians up for several turns while their archers and javelinmen scurried to the safety of nearby hills.

The Indian strike force of lancers and chariots were now mostly spent, but they had done their job well........so were the galatians. The break count slowed, but never stopped and the galatian breaking point was reached, more with a whimper than a battlecry.

Thanks to pantherboy for the game, I always learn alot, and I take comfort that this victory took him 17 turns, and I keep improving against him - my 62% score is my best yet. At this rate of improvment, I might manage 100% in.....summer 2012?

pantherboy · Post by **pantherboy** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 6:53 am

ROR Final

pantherboy - Judeans - Hycranus II (16/67) vs Morbio - Later Seleucid (63/63)

Cheers for all the matches guys. I think that was the last final to be completed (and the earliest starting one).

Pantherboy

Morbio · Post by **Morbio** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:48 am

pantherboy wrote:ROR Final

pantherboy - Judeans - Hycranus II (16/67) vs Morbio - Later Seleucid (63/63)

Cheers for all the matches guys. I think that was the last final to be completed (and the earliest starting one).

Pantherboy

Yet again Pantherboy proves he is the master.

I'd like to say it was closer than the result indicated

... but then I'd be lying

I thought I'd have a chance when I won the initiative, but the terrain received was nothing like I asked for and wasn't really conducive to a heavily pike and cat-based army. I did have a fair few MF and LF to supplement the main troops, but Pantherboy had more. I deployed badly and played the 1st moves badly - it went downhill from there as my choices were to fight with poor odds or to run away under overwhelming missile fire. I chose the former as I figured that if I got a lot of rolls in my favour I'd have a chance, or it would be over quicker. Needless to say it was over quicker.

This of course is not the only reason I lost, a major factor was the fact that Pantherboy played well too. Put both together and you get a one-sided result!

Anyway, Pantherboy proves yet again he is the master of all aspects, from army and unit selection, to terrain choice, deployment and play.

Congratulations and well played Pantherboy.

Triarii · Post by **Triarii** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:27 am

andersm73 wrote: SOAII - 600pts Round 2

4) Triarius - Anglo Irish vs Xiggy - Condotta Venice

Triarius 28/63 Win
Xiggy 41/40

Xiggy got lumbered with the map with two steep hills seperated by a meandering river and lots of plantation.
Just like being in Ireland - so the kerns chased the cavalry up and then off a hill while the mercenary pikes chased off the early Irish opposition then got bogged down in river and fields and were potted by archers or held at the river bank by gallowglass.

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:46 pm

TheGrayMouser - Medieval German (Early) 51/53

iversonjm - WOTR (Lancastrian) 56/56

The pikes were 1% more resilient than the spears, thanks for the game.

pantherboy · Post by **pantherboy** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:52 am

SOAII Tourney

Later Scots Isles (pantherboy) 25/66 versus Swiss (deeter) 52/45

Cheers,

Steve

andersm73 · Post by **andersm73** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 6:06 am

SOAII 500pt Semi Finals

1) ericdoman1 - Medieval Irish (Early) vs pantherboy - Later Scots Isles and Highlands

2) TheGrayMouser - Medieval German (Early) vs Triarius - Anglo Irish (Later)

Good luck to all.

cheers
Matt

Triarii · Post by **Triarii** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:51 pm

andersm73 wrote:SOAII 500pt Semi Finals

1) ericdoman1 - Medieval Irish (Early) vs pantherboy - Later Scots Isles and Highlands

2) TheGrayMouser - Medieval German (Early) vs Triarius - Anglo Irish (Later)

Good luck to all.

cheers
Matt

Sorry Matt - is the 500 a slip of the typing finger or do we reduce by 100 points for the semi-final?

andersm73 · Post by **andersm73** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:55 am

Ahh, my apologies, yes still 600pt armies!!

cheers
Matt

andersm73 · Post by **andersm73** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:59 am

Any interest in another KO tourney, know people in the LOEG have loads of games on at the moment....

I was considering an Alexander the Great tourney, allowing only Later Hoplite Greek - Alexandrian Macedonian - Thracian - Later Achaemenid Persian - Skythian and Classical Indian armies, perhaps with only the Alexandrian Macedonian players allowed to take an Inspired General, representing Alexander.

Any thoughts on this and would anyone be interested?

cheers
Matt

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:56 am

andersm73 wrote:Any interest in another KO tourney, know people in the LOEG have loads of games on at the moment....

I was considering an Alexander the Great tourney, allowing only Later Hoplite Greek - Alexandrian Macedonian - Thracian - Later Achaemenid Persian - Skythian and Classical Indian armies, perhaps with only the Alexandrian Macedonian players allowed to take an Inspired General, representing Alexander.

Any thoughts on this and would anyone be interested?

cheers
Matt

Absolutely, I really liked the idea of a themed tourney with specific lists allowed, cheers!

andersm73 · Post by **andersm73** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:28 pm

Thanks Mouser

Ok, I'll start recruiting for an Alexander the Great themed tourney and see what takeup we get.

Anyone interested please post with your army selection from the choices below, please give a preference as to what army pts total you would prefer to use, most popular figure will be used for the tourney.

Later Hoplite Greek
Alexandrian Macedonian (Only army allowed to use an Inspired General)
Thracian
Skythian
Later Achaemenid Persian
Classical Indian

cheers
Matt

Knockout Tournament

Result of the 700pt IF Semi-final

SOA Results

Second round/Qtr Final result

Battle report on IF 700 point final

SOA Round II