Slitherine

We will kick off the next round of the campaign despite the last battle in the Danish phase not being complete.

Date of Battle 15 April 1632. The Swedes under King Gustav Adolph have invaded Northern Germany. With Wallenstein having been sidelined by the Emperor the Count of Tilly Johann Tserclaes has massed his forces to repel the invaders.

The Imperial player sets up the battle; Large armies, open battle, agricultural terrain. Password is 1632
Pro-Imperial: Catholic League 1619 - 1632
Anti-Imperial: Swedish 1630 – 1634

The match-ups are:

awesum4 against Gribol

PeterthePainter against Jaerho

KiwiWarlord against Ciberpencho

Changdao against Ironclad

Marklesley against TyroneC

Lascar against Dilly

AHuyton against AKVGoeben

SMJohnso77 against Doyley

Battle set up for Ironclad.

PW is 1234

Round 4 set up for Ciberpencho pw 1632

Battle for tyronec set, PM sent.

Challenge for AVKGoeben is posted, pw is 1632

Victory for the Swedes

Ironclad (Swedish) v Changdao (Catholics) 48-64

Tough batttle which saw the impressive Catholic cavalry inflicting heavy losses on their Swedish mounted foes who somehow survived long enough to allow the Swedish infantry to finally achieve dominance in the critical central battle after a long arduous struggle. Thanks to Changdao.

Ironclad wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 3:35 pm Victory for the Swedes

Well Done IronClad !!!

AKvGoeben (Swedes) defeats Ahuyton (Imperials) 19-44.

A tough skirmish and cavalry fight developed on either wing whilst the Swedish infantry advanced to contact. An extended firefight was going the way of the Imperials so the order was given for the Swedes to charge, Sabaton on full blast. Swedish infantry on the right and in the centre were victorious whilst heavy casualties were sustained on the left.

Definitely feels like this matchup is tough for the Imperials given the expense of the tercios.

Good game and well played to AHuyton!

tyronec defeats markleslie 45-13.
Likewise, the Swedish firepower was too much for the Imperials.

gribol (Swedes) defeats awesum4 (Imperials) 50:11
The Imperial Tercio was shot before entering the melee.
Thank you for an interesting battle!

Well played Gribol, you played this superbly and punished me for my mistakes.

It is with profound regret that I have to announce that the Swedish forces have suffered a defefeat at the hands of the Imperial army. 55/62

jaerho (Swedes) defeats PeterThePainter (Catholic) 47-22

The Catholic Tercios held on long enough for the Swedish cavalry to break, but not long enough to win the day.
Thanks for the game!

Reports have come in that the Swedes under Dilly have defeated the Imperials of Lascar by 12 to 47

So far its a great round for the Anti-Imperials, with only 2 games to finish the round

That's what happens when you bring an army of Mumakil to an Elf fight.

Result for Round 4, Swedish Phase

The Swedes under King Gustav Adolph have invaded Northern Germany and been repelled by KiwiWarlord.

KiwiWarlord's 18,300 strong Catholic League Army (14%) defeats Ciberpencho's 13,000 strong Swedish Army (40%)

The Catholic League sat atop a large hill and were attacked on both flanks and frontally by the many Swedish Cavalry & Foot Regiments which were beaten off and defeated.
(9 Tercios and 5 Kurassiers beat off the 15 Foot and 15 Cavalry Regiments of the Swedish Army)

The reliant and inexperienced Swedish troops have been clearly defeated by the professionals of the imperial army.

Good job, KiwiWarlord

Is that phase completed?
What are next battles?

This phase is indeed complete.

A massive turn around with 6 wins to the Antis and only 2 to the Imperials, so the score is 12 wins and 3 draws to the antis, 17 wins and 3 draws to the Imperials. So the Antis must do even better than this round to win the Tournament.

The individual scores of the Antis are: Gribol 400, Jaerho 386, Tyrone 361, Dilly 329, AKVGeoben 324, Ironclad 314, Ciberpencho 296, and Doyley50 278

The indivdual score of the Imperials are: KiwiWarlord 395, awesum4 385, Peter the Painter 372, MarlLeslie 343, Lascar 342, Changdao 341, AHuyton 335, SMJohnso77 296


I will set the final round in the next day or so