Re: Habsburgs are loveable Round 1

[awesum4]

The battles for the first round are as follows;

TyroneC using German Peasants 1524-1526 plays awesum4 using Spanish Imperial 1519-1533

Doyley50 using Italian 1494-1525 plays SMJohnso77 using Spanish Imperial 1534-1542

Gribol using French 1494-1525 plays KiwiWarlord using Spanish Imperial 1519-1533

Dilly using Ottoman Turk 1494-1559 plays AHuyon using Hungarians 1494-1526

Anti player to set up the battle using Extra Nations v3, large armies, open battle, agricultural terrain. Make the password 1519

[Doyley50]

i'm having difficulty setting up my game. Italian 1494-1530 and Spanish Imperial 1519-1523 both appear as pro Imperial and don't seem to want to fight each other. Having said that I am down with covid and my brain isn't working properly so I am probably missing something blindingly obvious....

[gribol]

i'm having difficulty setting up my game. Italian 1494-1530 and Spanish Imperial 1519-1523 both appear as pro Imperial and don't seem to want to fight each other. Having said that I am down with covid and my brain isn't working properly so I am probably missing something blindingly obvious....

Indeed. You need to click somewhere to enable all nations (On/Off) – unfortunately, I don't remember the exact name, and I can't check it now.

[Doyley50]

thanks Gribol, found it, challenge set up.

[tyronec]

Game set up.

[gribol]

Gribol using French 1494-1525 win with KiwiWarlord using Spanish Imperial 1519-1533 with the result 13:43

In the fertile fields of sunny Lombardy, in a battle to capture the magnificent city of Milan, the Spanish Imperial Army attacked the Kingdom of France.

The Spanish only had to wait a moment at their fortified positions for their flanking forces to encircle the small but elite French army and their Swiss pikemen.

Unfortunately, their impatient commander threw his entire center into an attack on the columns of French Keils just marching into battle positions. And that was a bad plan...

[shali012]

Hi,mp bhulekh
What a dramatic clash! The Spanish commander’s impatience cost them dearly—charging the disciplined French and Swiss keils head-on was a mistake. Holding the line for the flank to close in could have secured Milan.

[awesum4]

After an epic struggle the righteous Habsburgs have beaten the revolting peasants commanded by the arch-rebel TyroneC by 50% to 60%.

The early stages saw some manouvering for position with both forces occupying a hill on their right while withdrawing from the opposite hill. Eventually we stood on our hill and swung onto the flank of his forces as they attacked ours.
He had surplus units which attempted to pass around our flank but pike blocks are notoriously shite for this sort of thing. The quality of our landsknect pike and our colonellas overwhelmed his peasant pikes and his army broke.

So honours are even with both sides having 2 wins and 2 defeats.