Slitherine

3 more still to write up...

But, for now, the Oxford Doubles Singles report for Sweden vs TYW Catholics is here !



tim

I very much enjoyed this one. Thanks for all the effort into posting it.

Those Swedes sound awfully tough.

The Horse+Commanded Shot sound interesting.

your bat reps are great reading....

the game looks great...



and no swarms in sight! hurrah!



luvvin it!

jon

Thank you for giving us poor non-beta testers a chance to see what the game will be like. Those Spanish things look nasty, sound like your best to shoot the snoogies out of them and then kick what ever is left out of the way, hard to do at 16 bases though I would imagine.
Kind of makes me glad Blathergut did not choose to do Spanish again

Yet

chubooga wrote:your bat reps are great reading....

the game looks great...



and no swarms in sight! hurrah!



luvvin it!

jon

The heavy artillery shoots at 36 inchs and deploys at 15mu so even just deploying at normal your in range stright away so no siting in corners, it is difficult to know what to do mind you. I find it a game that forces you to deploy as they would have and therefore there seems a certain feel to the game it just feels right.

Artillery sounds deadly. How have testers been countering it? Or have they?

Blathergut wrote:Artillery sounds deadly. How have testers been countering it? Or have they?

Theres not really a counter I found this is just my impression place them last and either place them in the middle and bang away at the infantry, I managed to frag one of tims swedish Regiments before it got half way across the board(he did roll two death rolls of 1 both times and failed the test twice unlucky did'nt happen apart from a LF BG) They arn't that powerful but you can't just forget about them. The other as Richard did have Superior Pike with General and rear support and just run the guns down.

Dave

chubooga wrote:your bat reps are great reading....

the game looks great...



and no swarms in sight! hurrah!



luvvin it!

jon

All depends you still can face 18 strong BGs but the rules have made foot less strong

Looks really intresting the only thing that seems a little off to me, are the sizes of the units. For my taste they would look better double the size! Are those units the max size or can one have double the bases so 8-12 bases, and I am not talking about the tercio which I would also love to see twice as large?

Thanks for a great report it is always enjoyable reading your battle reports.
William

Great work Tim. Another wonderful write up - keep them coming and they always make me smile.

Mark

wkeyser wrote:Looks really intresting the only thing that seems a little off to me, are the sizes of the units. For my taste they would look better double the size! Are those units the max size or can one have double the bases so 8-12 bases, and I am not talking about the tercio which I would also love to see twice as large?

Thanks for a great report it is always enjoyable reading your battle reports.
William

All depends on date of army.

Tim, really like the reports. Having played a number of games I feel that you have really captured the feel of a FoiGR game in operation and you explain the processes well. I could see some of my moves following the same sort of thinking that you had (but I generally do less well than you...). Looking forwards to the next 2 reports.

Great reports. Makes me want to buy the game and also I am sure the 10mm guys will sell shedloads of Tercios

Great stuff as always, just a thought, but how far forward will the time travelling Hannibal go?

He did make into WW2 in the previous report....

Well, courtesy of one of the local Beta guys, I had my first game last night.

I am being careful of what I say, but as someone who has never - EVER - played an ECW game with any ruleset before I greatly enjoyed the game. We each had about 750 points of EC. I was Royalist (based on the list published by RBS recently plus a couple of units) while my opponant was the dsatardly Parliamentarians. The game flowed well, with only teh occasional stop for a chat about differences from FOG:AM.

Musket Shooting is noticeably more effective, so there are more casualties, and I lost more units to autobreak than cohesion. Artillery is powerful, but not overwhelming and as other posters have intimated placing it last is a very useful tactic.

I lost quite handily in the end - 22-3 in comp scoring I believe - although at one point the attrition score was as close as 10-7 to my opponant.

My one major success was when Rupert and his armoured superior bodyguard rode down a disrupted pike and shot block - thanks to a lousy cohesion test. Discussing this afterwards, quite how I would have recovered this powerful unit to use again was open to some question, as Cavaliers would appear to be very reluctant to stop pursuing - Very authentic !!

Looking forward to the rules.


Madaxe...3rd and 4th reports....pleeeeEEEEeEaasasssSEee!!!

I too must beg on my knees for the other AAR reports... so long until the rules will arrive and my army is taking forever to put together and paint......

deadtorius wrote:I too must beg on my knees for the other AAR reports... so long until the rules will arrive and my army is taking forever to put together and paint......

Not long a couple of weeks now