Slitherine

The time has come to lead the cavalry into battle as West and East clash.

http://slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=44195, scenarios #18, 30, 33, 51, 54.

Arsuf 1191: Richard Coeur de Lion vs Saladin
Kalka River 1223: the Mongols trample Russia
La Forbie 1244: last charge of the kingdom of Jerusalem
Tannenberg 1415: the fall of the Teutonic Order
Mohacs 1526: the Ottoman storm reaches Hungary

I am not that great, but reliable. Would love to join

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We're starting. As per Bates' suggestion, challengers will now be side 2.

settings:
historical deployment
select second listed side
no fog of war
no double move
password protected

challenges out:

Arsuf for Asterix, pw: asterix
La Forbie for ian, pw: iandavidsmith

Challenges up
Tannenberg for Ian: pw round1
Arsuf for Bates: pw round1
Kalka for Fogman: pw round1

I'm a Seattle Seahawks fan (not a bandwagoner, have been since the Hasselbeck era) which means that you guys will slaughter me for most of the game, and then I'll pull some ridiculously lucky win out of my ass right at the end. You wait and see!

Fogman - Mohacs - pw manfog
Jonathan - La Forbie - pw 4290

I would love to join if you still have room,
Eric

ricoual74 wrote:I would love to join if you still have room,
Eric

if asterix doesn't stir by wednesday, you're in. stay tuned.

Londo wrote:I'm a Seattle Seahawks fan (not a bandwagoner, have been since the Hasselbeck era) which means that you guys will slaughter me for most of the game, and then I'll pull some ridiculously lucky win out of my ass right at the end. You wait and see!

Fogman - Mohacs - pw manfog
Jonathan - La Forbie - pw 4290

i've seen it before! they follow football down under?

Challenges up

Arsuf for Londo: password = centauri
Mohacs for BM : password = Psycho

Good Luck ,
Ian

fogman wrote:

ricoual74 wrote:I would love to join if you still have room,
Eric

if asterix doesn't stir by wednesday, you're in. stay tuned.

YOu go ahead and take the spot Ricoual. There is already one challenge out from me. Post your challenges asap.

My challenges for round 1 are up:

Kalka - pw londo
Tannenberg - pw fogman
La Forbe - pw ricoual74

Chris

My challenges:
Kalka - pw ianda
Tannenberg - pw londo
Mohacs - pw jonathan

Thanks, eric

make sure you have the latest kalka version, the Russians are at 90 break points in this one.

Round 1 Forbie
batesmotel (Franco-Syrian) 24/56 beat ricoual74 (Ayyubid Egyptian) 57/56
batesmotel 10.0 ricoual74 4.29

Thanks for the game.

Chris

Challenge up for Fogman, pw: fogman

It's the Kalka remake.

arsuf

ayyubids (fogman) 82/115 vs crusaders (ricoual) 90/85

the ayyubids were lucky in hitting hard some big elite hospitaller units early, which fatally weakened the crusaders' left flank that eventually crumbled.

fogman 10.6
ricoual 7.1

Tannenberg

teutonic knights (fogman) 88/90 vs polish-lithuanians (batesmotel) 92/90

the knights just made it to the finish line before being overwhelmed at their camp. the grand master was killed trying to reach the polish king. it's always a delight when things unfold exactly as history, except the outcome in gaming terms.

fogman 10.2
batesmotel 9.8

Kalka

Londo (Mongols) 30/50 - batesmotel (Russians) 90/90

La Forbie

Londo (Crusaders) 16/56 - Jonathan4290 (Egyptians) 59/56

In the latter, the Mamluks on the Egyptian left came out ahead of their infantry to shoot at the approaching knights. There were gaps in the line with LF objective tokens, but some of the Mamluks retreated instead through their infantry when the knights charged. So the infantry were disrupted, which helped the knights immensely to break through.

On the other wing, the Syrian cavalry simply fled from the Egyptians and raced over to back up the Crusader knights. Only the Emir stayed behind to bolster the Syrian infantry. They were eventually shot to pieces and cut up, but by that time, the Egyptian left had collapsed. The Crusader infantry in the middle were never threatened.

Arsuf

Jonathan4290 (Ayyubids) 112/115 fights Batesmotel (Crusaders) 79/85 to a draw

Jonathan4290: 9.3
Batesmotel: 9.7