Slitherine

Result just in,
Region, Central West
Challenger, Warlord 47%
Opponent, Cavehobbit 22%

shawkhan2 wrote:Midwest result. Glorious obscenely bloody victory for Parliament

Cavehobbit royalist 61%, Shawkhan2 Parliament 48%

With our honour impugned by the insidious Royalist lackey cavehobbit, our Noble although very dour Parliamentary troops met the King's lapdogs on the open field, so no excuses of hedgerow skulking could be laid at our door. The bloodletting was intense, and as is the case whenever the Cavehobbit is involved, the result was in doubt until near the end of the battle. Having lost twice in a row, the Royalist commander vows to fight us again, in the vain hope of actually defeating the men who walk the Path of Righteousness.

Next time we will not be bound to the foolishness of battle w/o regard to terrain. Back to the life of the dour humorless coward for us.

Path of Righteousness!? You Parliamentarians are in league with the Devil, no doubt! There's no other explanation than witchcraft how your raw and undisciplined units first could run away from my units and then shoot my battle hardened and God-fearing men to pieces.

Thanks shawkhan2 for the game, well played. This is getting personal...

Warlord wrote:Result just in,
Region, Central West
Challenger, Warlord 47%
Opponent, Cavehobbit 22%

Thanks for a good game. As we discussed in the chat, Lady Luck was on my side.

Interesting to note how many armies were close to mutual destruction....Wish this could be incorporated in a campaign. Perhaps survivors of both battles if they meet again be forced to fight with small armies?

Danny weitz

Ulysisgrunt wrote:Interesting to note how many armies were close to mutual destruction....Wish this could be incorporated in a campaign. Perhaps survivors of both battles if they meet again be forced to fight with small armies?

Danny weitz

I won't be introducing the detailed impact of casualties in this particular format as I think it could be unbalancing without also introducing several other features; this would make things a bit too complicated for this particular campaign. However, as previously mentioned, I am working on a more detailed strategic campaign system where casualties may well have an impact - I am currently considering some sort of manpower pool and 'supply routes' on a nodal map, so a cut-off army could be beaten into oblivion over a number of turns or surrender (this would allow some portion of the manpower to return to the surrendering faction's pool). This will be abstracted to some degree as I don't want to get down to individual man count... most likely a fixed tariff of army points per x% lost, one cost for the winner and a higher cost for the loser.

In other news, there is only one battle left to be resolved before we move into Late 1643. Ian and I are working on bringing it to a conclusion!

I have amended the rules post to include the new terrain elements and map sizes. Going forward, the second post will be the new/current turn's dispositions and the third post will be the results for the previous/concluded turn.

Keyth, the example given at the end of the paragraph headed "Bonus Points" doesn't seem to relate to the previous wording.

Ironclad wrote:Keyth, the example given at the end of the paragraph headed "Bonus Points" doesn't seem to relate to the previous wording.

Thanks, will check and resolve - it has been hacked around a bit!

Up north starting tomorrow until Friday, locked in a lodge with 26 10-yr-olds! Will check back in next weekend if I survive!

Blathergut wrote:Up north starting tomorrow until Friday, locked in a lodge with 26 10-yr-olds! Will check back in next weekend if I survive!

My God that's barbaric !

A Glorious Victory has been won in North Wales. The invading rebels drew their foot upon a long ridge, inviting us to charge them uphill. Instead, we formed a double column of companies, protected front and rear by our bold cavaliers, and advanced to the enemy's left - they had posted a few regiments of horse to hold a small hillock at the end of the ridge.

Our musketeers and other foot wrestled with the rebel horse until our cavaliers arrived and drove them off in great disarray, turning their army's flank. The rebels had swung their foot to match our line of advance, sending their horse to our left. With a thunderbolt charge worthy of Prince Rupert himself, our veteran cavaliers engaged and broke the rebels.

In the centre, our regiments of foot traded shot with the traitors until both sides charged home up and down the line. By the grace of God we broke their centre and began to roll up their line. After such a beating, they could hold no longer and retired from the field.

Keyth 3 iandavidsmith 48

In truth, Ian was very unlucky with some chain routs on both flanks and the fast collapse of his centre... The score is not an accurate reflection of my prowess!

I'm about to get on a plane but should be good to publish the results in full this evening at some point. Hopefully this turn's CiCs are already in earnest discussions about the late 43 dispositions; I will get your bonus points to you ASAP.

double post

keyth wrote:I'm about to get on a plane but should be good to publish the results in full this evening at some point. Hopefully this turn's CiCs are already in earnest discussions about the late 43 dispositions; I will get your bonus points to you ASAP.

Not from our side - seemed a bit premature to ask for comments until the new region sentiments were announced (I have kept track of them but that was for the map). Congrats on your glorious victory.

Ironclad wrote:

keyth wrote:I'm about to get on a plane but should be good to publish the results in full this evening at some point. Hopefully this turn's CiCs are already in earnest discussions about the late 43 dispositions; I will get your bonus points to you ASAP.

Not from our side - seemed a bit premature to ask for comments until the new region sentiments were announced (I have kept track of them but that was for the map). Congrats on your glorious victory.

Likewise.

The results are in and posted on the first page - roll on Late 1643!

Map update. This was the position at the end of last turn (Late 1642).

Here is the latest - Early 1643.

Nice maps, thanks

Keyth, I can't spot your map which I wanted to check for home regions so if you could list the latter on page 1 it would be helpful. Thanks.