Pike & Shot Caracole II

[Aryaman]

Pod 2

Aryaman (Spanish 1543-1559) won 9% vs 51% Hrothgar (French 1550-1559)

[Hutze]

A pod 1 result:

- batesmotel French 1643-48 (17%) won vs. Hutze Spanish 1635-48 (44%)
The battlefield was divided into an open plain on the Spanish left and some wooded hills on the right. Therefore most of the French and Spanish cavalry was deployed on the plain, where the fight started. The Spanish infantry advanced cautiously, fearing the French charge attack. On the Spanish right developed a firefight across a narrow valley, both sides reluctant to charge and loosing their height advantage. In the center the battle was again restricted to a firefight. After the cavalry battle swung in favour of the French and the Spanish realized they could not endure a prolonged ranged exchange, they charged forward. But despite some successes it was too little too late and the French carried the day.

Thanks batesmotel for the match, next time the French will taste more cold steel

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one pod 1 result is missing, kmaher won the second game against me:

- kmaher French 1594 (34%) won vs. Hutze Italian 1594 (68%)
The Italian flanking manouver was to slow, the lumbering gendarmes took too much time. The battle was decided by the struggle of a big heap of keils. My Swiss disappointed by uncharacteristically getting disrupted at their first charge.

Thanks kmaher for the match!

[Tiopepe]

Tiopepe (French) 5% won Shawkhan2 (Spanish) 43%

I offer the spaniards to battle on flat terrain, because they were on an excellent hill with 200 of height nearly impossible to assault. When they asome their heads the firepower of french regiments was decisive.

[Tiopepe]

Challenge for Iandavidsmith:

Imperial 1619-32 vs Transilvanian 1918-31

Challenge for Ulysisgrunt:

Spanish 1621-34 vs Swedish 1630-34

Challenge for Thegraymouser:

Ottoman Turkish 1618-29 vs Imperial 1619-32

Challenge for rbodleyscott:

German Protestant 1618-31 vs Catohlic League 1619-32

[deadtorius]

Vadmin84 Polish (15%) victorious over deadtorious Swedish (48%)

Another hellish battlefield with a huge patch of woods with 2 hills at either end. I set up on the hills and had some early success as the Poles had no idea where I was till they got around the woods and saw my artillery which hurt a few units. They then quickly turned around and using the woods for cover, sent their infantry into the woods and their cavalry to my opposite flank. In a quick charge en mass on my left flank the winged Hussars proved their worth sending all before them fleeing or to the grave. One pursuit resulted in 3 flank rear charges, my units breaking on every contact and that pretty much ended the battle.
Congratulations to Vadmin84, well played on a really horrible map.

[flatsix518]

Results posted to here...

47% of Phase I games are complete.

John

[TheGrayMouser]

Challenge for Thegraymouser:

Ottoman Turkish 1618-29 vs Imperial 1619-32

Hello, I took the Turk
password: hookah

[rbodleyscott]

Challenge for rbodleyscott:

German Protestant 1618-31 vs Catohlic League 1619-32

I have taken the league. PW: mary

[shawkhan2]

Proving that even a blind pig can find a truffle now and then, shawkhan2's severely overmatched French(1494-1525) 29% managed to eke out a narrow victory over iandavidsmith's Swiss(1494-1515) 31%.

This was an amusing battle if you weren't there. Facing 6! Swiss keils, about all the poor French could do for most of the game was to run around and scream.

Fortunately, the Swiss had few support troops, mainly arquebusiers, so the French light troops were able to chip away at them, finally breaking them all.

With two of my own Swiss keils that had spent most of the battle hidden in the woods, I managed a sneak attack on the smallest Swiss keil and broke it with only a turn or two left in the game, thus giving me a tiny margin of victory.

With my fifth victory, I now have P&S mediocrity in sight.

[flatsix518]

All,

We are approaching the midpoint of Phase I (this Sunday). And overall, we are on pace to complete Phase I by end of March. (We have completed ~48% of Phase I games, so far).

However I am aware and concerned some players are either not keeping pace in their games or not answering challenges. The 48% completion is because some players are far along and some players are way behind.

I am in the process of recruiting "reserve players" to help complete games that need to be played.

Here is what I need Caracole participants to do:

1. If you can manage a pace to complete half of your games by Sunday and all by end of March -- that is best for everyone.

2. If you are in a situation that you cannot realistically continue in the Caracole, let me know. I'll turn your matches over to reserve players. No dishonor, here.

3. If you feel you have an opponent that is too slow in play and not responding to challenges -- please drop me a PM and I will follow up. If the same player is identified by multiple opponents and doesn't respond to my inquiries, I will drop them from play and replace them with reserve players.

Again, the best thing is for all of us to try and play as quickly as we can and complete all our games. It is not fair to players who are playing diligently to be left idle.

And idle hands ARE the Devil's playground...so consider that.



Best regards,

John

[TheGrayMouser]

Pod 3 result

TGM(Turks) won vs ggarynorman(Poles) 18-66

The turks were able to mass jannissary and artillery fire onto the horde of polish Cossacks/pancerni, disrupting many before they could cause harm. Surprisingly, the poles left most of the Hussaria at home, choosing #'s over quality

Thanks for the game!

[krieg63]

Pod 1 result

Guillaume(Poles) won vs kmaher(Transylvanian) 7-46

the poles face a a transylvanian army compose of only cavalry

[flatsix518]

Results posted to here...

John

[krieg63]

Pod 1 result

Pantherboy won 2 time vs Guillaume

[ggarynorman]

GGarynorman's French finally eke out a first win against Ulysisfgruntps Spanish 29-54.

I will be posting all of my challenges for you to pick sides on Friday

[flatsix518]

Huzzah! We have passed 50% completion of Phase 1 games.

Results posted to here.

John

[flatsix518]

All,

I have stated a new thread in the non-stickie area with projected P2 Pod assignments.

It can be found here:

viewtopic.php?f=299&t=62713

Best regards,

John

[Dortmund]

Another result for Pod 3:

Dortmund (french 1635-1642) won 44% vs Tiopepe (spanish 1635-1648) 66%.

This was a bloody battle full of confusion in a flat terrain. There were more french cavalry units and I profited of that... but the spanish tercios and pike and shot soon disrupted some french infantry units with their shooting, and later with their charges. The battle was in a stalemate as I won the cavalry battle and Tiopepe the infantry battles. After that there was a chaos. Mixed units here an there. Some of the french pike and shot units managed to win the spanish ones and the battle ended.

[flatsix518]

Result posted.

John

[flatsix518]

Pod 1 Challenge Proposals:

For batesmotel, susji, Hutze...

Italian Wars: French (1494-1525) vs Italian (1494-1530)

Please choose sides and post challenges for me to accept.

Best regards,

John