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Challenge Posted
MONT GISARD 1177 AD

AYYUBID vs FRANK
Iandavidsmith vs Fogman
Password is Fogman

Good Luck

A Draw at Nortallerton!

mcfcivo - 73/66 scots vs Londo 55/54 English

very close!

Challenges up for:-

Legnano - fogman pw fogman
Mont Gisard - iandavidsmith pw smith

cheers,

Andy.

Challenge for final game of the previous round ...

Edmund - Sirmium - pw edmund

Challenge up for Edmund for Legnano, pw Edmund

3 Battle Results:
Northallerton:
Scots (Edmund) 22/66 vs English (iandavidsmith) 56/54
Edmund 10.4
iandavidsmith 3.3
The Scots have an initial advantage. If they can break through quickly they should win. Here a couple of fortunate die rolls saw immobile English heavy infantry units disrupt and opened the door to the lighter armed Scots. The numbers give a misleading impression to a game that could have gone very differently. Thanks for the game Ian.

Sirmium:
Romans (Edmund) 44/56 vs Hungarians (allendeuce) 71/70
Edmund 10.1
allendeuce 7.9
I think this is a difficult scenario for the Hungarians. Unless the Romans throw poor dice early on or make errors they should gradually peg the Hungarians back. And here the Delay Markers succeeded in delaying some of the Hungarian cavalry permanently! Thanks for the game Jim.

Northallerton:
English (Edmund) 51/54 vs Scots (fogman) 66/66
Edmund 10.0
fogman 9.4
A close game all the way through, but the English just about held on until the Scots developed a shortage of units 21 vs 12, which meant the English narrowly edged it. Really good game, thanks fogman.

EB

Challenge posted ...

fogman - Legnano - pw lombard

Win for my Franks 42/45 vs Jims Arabs 55/50 at Mt Gisard, very close, great game Jim!!

Challenge up ...

allendeuce - Mont Gisard - pw franks

My Lombards 48/56 beat Fogmans Germans 38/32 at Legnano.

Victory for my Ayyubids 21/50 over Ian's Franks at Mont Gisard.47/45.

Some very good dice for the Ayyubids in this one!!

Result

LEGNANO 1176 AD

GERMAN vs LOMBARD

Allendeuce vs Iandavidsmith
Iandavidsmith (LOMBARD) 46/56 defeats Allendeuce(GERMAN) 33/32
Iandavidsmith: 10.3 pts
Allendeuce: 8.2 pts

Good Game
Ian

Northallerton

Londo Scots 32/64 - fogman English 55/54

Sirmium

Londo Byzantines 44/56 - Edmund Hungarians 70/70

As Edmund noted above, unless the Hungarians get a lucky break in one part of the field at least, they'll be worn down by Byzantine numbers and quality. And Edmund didn't!

Londo Hungarians 56/70 - Ian Byzantines 58/56

Here, on the other hand, Hungarians did very well in the centre, and not too badly on the flanks. Andronikos Kontostephanos was killed and his Varangians routed, along with most of the centre cavalry and some spearmen.

Challenges Up:
Legnano vs Allendeuce password JimA
Mont Gisard vs Londo password Lond

Challenges Up:
Legnano vs Allendeuce password JimA
Mont Gisard vs Londo password Lond

Challenge Mont Gisard
vs Edmund
pw: eddy

Hi All.
Results of Battle of Legano, allendeuce (Lombards) defeats Richard (Germans), Lombards 38/56, Germans 33/32
Allendeuce 10.3 pts
Richard 6.8 pts, I think...

Must be the fastest Edmund game in the history of Edmund games

Finished the other Legano game too.
Results of Battle of Legano, Edmund (Lombards) defeats Mcfcivo (Germans), Lombards 38/56, Germans 35/32
Edmund 10.9 pts
Mcfcivo 6.8 pts
Same percentages as the return game but 2 turns longer as I played it differently to Jim, but got the same result. Unless I'm missing something this is a difficult one for the Germans to win.

Edmund_Blackadder wrote: ↑Sat May 14, 2022 11:43 pm Same percentages as the return game but 2 turns longer as I played it differently to Jim, but got the same result. Unless I'm missing something this is a difficult one for the Germans to win.

The problem for the Germans is anarchy charges. If they can concentrate, they're hard to grind down within the time frame given. Anarchy charges often prevent them from forming a solid line. I thought about giving them 'drilled' status but drilled superior may be too much.