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Ordonnance French
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 7:12 am
by Fluffy
Good mornig.
After being on the recieving end of longbows and a few headaches due to knights I thought maybe get an army with lots of those two troops.
Seeing as I play against the English in most of my medieval games I was thinking to take the early option of the Ordonnance French (before the Swiss come into it) for lots of longbows and knights, any advice?
Re: Ordonnance French
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 6:47 pm
by hazelbark
Fluffy wrote:Good mornig.
After being on the recieving end of longbows and a few headaches due to knights I thought maybe get an army with lots of those two troops.
Seeing as I play against the English in most of my medieval games I was thinking to take the early option of the Ordonnance French (before the Swiss come into it) for lots of longbows and knights, any advice?
Its a good list. Drilled knights like to mauver. If you KNOW you are fightin enemy longbows the run the LB in 8s and no stakes.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:56 pm
by Fluffy
If I going for 3 groups of knights, is it worthwhile to take the 1 undrilled group to save points?
Are the stakes worthwile if I'm making a general list to play different people?
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 2:38 pm
by hazelbark
Fluffy wrote:If I going for 3 groups of knights, is it worthwhile to take the 1 undrilled group to save points?
Are the stakes worthwile if I'm making a general list to play different people?
Stakes are a bit of too your taste decision. They are good versus enemy mounted, not needed versus foot so what do you expect to encounter? I think most people are biased against stakes in general. Although I "think" Ian Stewart used them with the army he took to challenge.
As for the drilled. Normally I would say yes take 1 undrilled. But with this army I would pause. The armies strength is manuver and suddenly you have one unmanuverable unit. Second what do you actually get for those points and is it worth anything?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 12:37 pm
by DavidT
If you take stakes, you can be more aggressive against enemy mounted. You are not tied to terrain (which is usually in the wrong place anyway) and can happilly move out into the open to engage enemy mounted.
I always take them (unless playing against an army which cannot have cavalry or knights) as it suits my attacking style of play.