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Kelen2 wrote:Kelen2: Swedish 1676-1679
GDod: Danish 1678-1680

The Danes defended 3 woods, the centre packed with musketeers, and those on the flanks with mix forces of foot and horse. With no room to manoeuvre, and with little or no sight of the enemy the Swedes were compelled to advance into the woods resulting in a long and bloody up close and personal battle. The Danes were eventually victorious on their left, but isolated Swedish units fought on preventing the total collapse of their flank and gave the rest of their forces just enough time for their pikes to expel the musketeers, and for their superior horse to gain the advantage on the right.

An incredibly close game which ended in a Swedish victory.

losses,

Swedish 60%
Danish 64%

Kelen: (64%-60%)/10 = 0.4 + 6 = 6.4
GDod: 60/10 = 6.0

A Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one!

BrentBJ wrote:Box 4
Youngr with Danish 1649-77 19%
BrentBJ with British 1661-85 45%

A fairly even game to start on open terrain then the Danish smashed a few British units and the cascading disruptions and exposed flanks wrecked a chunk of the British army leaving the Danes with large gaps to pour through.

regards
Brent

rbodleyscott wrote:

SnuggleBunnies wrote:RBS - but my men would have seen enemy units approaching, if they had not appeared suddenly and attacked from "the edge of the world." Since we don't have line of sight beyond the map edge, reinforcements are marching invisibly forward until the turn they show up and strike.

True, but in reality it would take time for your army to react to the unexpected approach of the enemy. As the game has no built in delay for command and control, the only way to simulate the confusion that would occur is to have the flank marchers appear suddenly.

There is an easy solution to the danger of flank marches and that is not to deploy your troops right up to the map edge. The initial autodeployment never goes close to the map edge. As moving troops to fill up the gap between the original autodeployment and the map edge is often an attempt to take advantage of the "edge of the world effect" to protect a flank, it is only right that the "edge of the word effect" should sometimes come back and bite.

awesum4 wrote:Rex,

As Jomni reported on our second game I lost 6% he lost 51%, so I work that out as 9.5 points to 0.6. But the table has been filled in as 6.3 points to 5.9. Am I able to correct this myself or should I let you do it?

Andre

LFDLM wrote:Box4 round 2 :
LFDLM (49-88 Dutch) : 61% : (30/10) = 3
Doyley50 (80-96 Swedish) 30% : 6 + (61-30/10) = 9.1

Both rounds :
LFDLM : 3 + 7.4 = 10.4
Doyley50 : 4.7 + 9.1 = 13.8

Doyley50 wins ! Well played

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Well, at this moment (for both games) :

LFDLM : 0 + 9.4 = 9.4
TheGrayMouser : 10.5 + 2.7 = 13.2

LFDLM :4.7 + 7 = 11.7
Youngr : 7.6 + 5 = 12.6

LFDLM : 3 + 7.4 = 10.4
Doyley50 : 4.7 + 9.1 = 13.8

9.4 + 11.7 + 10.4 = 31.5

I hope I did not make any mistake.

Kelen2 wrote:Looks like a fair number of unexpected flank marches are occurring. Looks like that is definitely something I'm going to have to start factoring in in my set up.