Slitherine

solly wrote:Good year to alls players.
Challenge posted against Fogman and Laskar.
PW: new year

you have to challenge voskarp also. once you finish your round 1 games (against lascar, voskarp and ian), i will challenge you for the mirror game.

Finish of close game between Lascar (Ottomans) 30/32 vs Voskarp (Russians) 39/35

Challenge for:

fogman, password: fogman

iandavidsmith, password: iandavidsmith

Gday to all. Sorry for my late. Only now I see that second turn is started.
I'm playing against Laskar and now I post the challenge against Voskarp and Iandavidsmith.
PW: return
My apologies: ciao!

solly wrote:Gday to all. Sorry for my late. Only now I see that second turn is started.
I'm playing against Laskar and now I post the challenge against Voskarp and Iandavidsmith.
PW: return
My apologies: ciao!

I have grabbed the game for me , this is
the first round so i am the Polish Army.

Good luck ,
Ian

solly wrote:Gday to all. Sorry for my late. Only now I see that second turn is started.
I'm playing against Laskar and now I post the challenge against Voskarp and Iandavidsmith.
PW: return
My apologies: ciao!

I've done my duty too.

in my later first round:
Solly (Timurids) 12/35 vs Lascar (Ottomans) 28/28

solly you can start round 2: you have to challenge voskarp and lascar. same rules, switch armies.

my challenge to you is up: pw: solly. you're playing later lithuanians vs timurids

ian, you can also challenge solly for round 2, i know you're playing him now but just put the game up and sit on it or play concurrently.

we're making good progress, the games are turning out to be quite short, under 10 turns I think for most, if not all, of them.

i'm already planning the next series with a different period and a slightly different emphasis: "lords of khurasan" circa 1000, with armies spearheaded by gilmans and dailamis. those are the most potent armies in Decline and Fall. You won't get embarrassed by them once you're through, (you will still lose to them though!) I just need to work on restrictions for unit selection.

Round 1
Solly (Timurids) 29/35 vs Voskarp (Mamluks) 36/31

iandavidsmith (lithuanians) 25/29 vrs fogman (Later Polish) 32/32

a close game from start to finish with the lithuanians
just breaking a fragmented unit on the last turn with its
own fragmented unit , luck was with the lithuanians this day.

Thanks for the game ,
Ian

fogman (mamluks) 22/28 vs voskarp (lithuanians) 32/29

another game where i did not make use of archery but relied on provoking a general dogfight with no frontline and take advantage of the ensuing chaos, a tactic more suited to the light speared lithuanians that i favour than the other cavalry armies.

solly, i re-posted the challenge. pw: solly. remember to choose later lithuanian this time!

Second tur, I post the challenge:
Later ottomans early vs Lascar Timurids
Mamluks egiptian vs Voskarp Timurids
Later polish early vs Iandavidsmith Timurids

pw second turn

iandavidsmith (Russians) 19/30 vrs lascar (Later Polish) 37/34

Good game ,
cheers
Ian

iandavidsmith (Later Polish) 13/29 vrs Solly (Timurids) 37/35

Good game ,
cheers
Ian

Iandavidsmith (Mamluks egyptian) 27/26 vs voskarp (Later polish early) 23/29

It was, for my part a stupid battle with "attacking the nearest enemy no matter what" a al berserk charges. I suppose Ian tried to make something clever, but stupidity won. Disappointingly I've found this is the best tactic so far...

voskarp wrote:Iandavidsmith (Mamluks egyptian) 27/26 vs voskarp (Later polish early) 23/29

It was, for my part a stupid battle with "attacking the nearest enemy no matter what" a al berserk charges. I suppose Ian tried to make something clever, but stupidity won. Disappointingly I've found this is the best tactic so far...

It worked , so it can't be that stupid , congratulations.

Ian

Solly, you forgot to choose "From any book". I'm posting a new challenge for you. Password is: second thoughts

Solly (Ottomans) 16/37 vs Lascar (Timurids) 36/30

A series of melee in which the superior cavalry and some medium troops make the difference