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The third and final battle between the Ottomans and Byzantines in Bithynia . . .

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15461007/Battle ... 20PWv1.rar

Great, thank you. After my holiday i will play it in a onlinegame.

Best scenario, my compliments!

Excellent scenario! Enjoyed playing this fast-moving game. Congratulations.

At the moment i play the scenario online against nyczar, it works fantastic.

Thank you everyone. Currently play-testing Battle of Kosovo 1389.

stockwellpete wrote:Thank you everyone. Currently play-testing Battle of Kosovo 1389.

Have you seen this animated battle map? I don't know how accurate it is, but certainly an amusing and entertaining concept!

http://www.theartofbattle.com/battle-of-kosovo-1389.htm

ZeaBed wrote: Have you seen this animated battle map? I don't know how accurate it is, but certainly an amusing and entertaining concept!

http://www.theartofbattle.com/battle-of-kosovo-1389.htm

I have come across the website before, but I assume I need Powerpoint installed to run the animation - and I don't have it. Total War have a 5 minute rendition of the battle on YouTube which is quite good.

The Ottoman army was quite a bit bigger than the Serbian army at Kosovo so in the play-test I have 800pts playing 600pts - but I haven't as yet given the Ottomans any fortifications (stakes) in the centre. I will see how the first few battles turn out first. I want a 2:1 balance in favour of the Turks in this one.

stockwellpete wrote: I have come across the website before, but I assume I need Powerpoint installed to run the animation - and I don't have it. Total War have a 5 minute rendition of the battle on YouTube which is quite good.

There's a free PowerPoint Viewer available from MS.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/de ... g=en&id=13.

stockwell: Once you get PP and manage to access the Art of Battle site, check out also the animation for the battle of Ankara (Ottomans against Tamerlane). That is one battle that should be gamed in FoG, if it hasn't already.

ZeaBed wrote:stockwell: Once you get PP and manage to access the Art of Battle site, check out also the animation for the battle of Ankara (Ottomans against Tamerlane). That is one battle that should be gamed in FoG, if it hasn't already.

OK thanks, Zeabed. I will look at all this on Sunday.

This scenario is in a perfect balance .

ZeaBed wrote:

stockwellpete wrote:Thank you everyone. Currently play-testing Battle of Kosovo 1389.

Have you seen this animated battle map? I don't know how accurate it is, but certainly an amusing and entertaining concept!

http://www.theartofbattle.com/battle-of-kosovo-1389.htm

Very interesting depiction - and the Serbians are shown as having artillery as well. I have altered my scenario accordingly.

ZeaBed wrote:stockwell: Once you get PP and manage to access the Art of Battle site, check out also the animation for the battle of Ankara (Ottomans against Tamerlane). That is one battle that should be gamed in FoG, if it hasn't already.

I will be doing Nicopolis next and then Ankara after that. Both should be ready in a fortnight or so.

stockwellpete wrote:

ZeaBed wrote:

stockwellpete wrote:Thank you everyone. Currently play-testing Battle of Kosovo 1389.

Have you seen this animated battle map? I don't know how accurate it is, but certainly an amusing and entertaining concept!

http://www.theartofbattle.com/battle-of-kosovo-1389.htm

Very interesting depiction - and the Serbians are shown as having artillery as well. I have altered my scenario accordingly.

Both great and bloody battles, stockwell. The art of battle website gives a new meaning to the phrase "death by powerpoint", lol. Am looking forward to your versions of both of them. Nicopolis should be challenging and interesting to game. Reading about it reminds me of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, which focused on the Sire de Coucy, who was captured in that battle and died in captivity some time later.