Slitherine

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I played Terry Shaw last night at our club. He beat me 25:0 in 2 hours.

Terry didn't have to take a single cohesion test or death roll.


Ray Duggins

I'm partnering Ray at Usk. Oh dear, oh dear ...

That sounds pretty brutal

I seem to remember Martin and I doing something similar to Nik at Burton last year

That 3rd at Warfare obviously made you over confident. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

hammy wrote:That sounds pretty brutal

I seem to remember Martin and I doing something similar to Nik at Burton last year

Almost, however, I did briefly have one of your BGs Disrupted Otherwise it was all over rather quickly

nikgaukroger wrote:

hammy wrote:That sounds pretty brutal

I seem to remember Martin and I doing something similar to Nik at Burton last year

Almost, however, I did briefly have one of your BGs Disrupted Otherwise it was all over rather quickly

You may have done.

To be honest when things start to go West in a FoG game unless you are fighting at an advantage where you are not being slaughtered the rest of the emeny army will normally swing things against the remains of your army to such a degree that the 25-0 is almost innevitable.

Are you suggesting that 25-0 is common ?

Or that once your army is collapsing it is hard to do much?

I recall is a game of DBM one year at Epsom. My opponent had 'real romans' - wall to wall legions with bolt shooters on carts and auxilia - his C-in-C went after some LH, who took the view that you don't make an omelette. 6-1, dead general. Not so bad, but then he rolls a 1 and becomes demoralised. Did I mention he only had 2 commands? And the larger was the C-in-C's?

hazelbark wrote:Are you suggesting that 25-0 is common ?

Or that once your army is collapsing it is hard to do much?

Once things start to slide rapidly against you if you are not making inroads elsewhere on the battlefield 0-25 or 1-24 is not an unlkely result.

I wouldn't say common but I have seen a fair number of 25-0 results in UK comps.

Is Mr Porter having a FoG pants section too ?

Which armies Terry and you were playing ?

sounds like you need to start playing at Central London instead.

None of us are that good.

Tim
www.madaxeman.com

rayfredjohn wrote:HAPPY NEW YEAR

I played Terry Shaw last night at our club. He beat me 25:0 in 2 hours.

Terry didn't have to take a single cohesion test or death roll.


Ray Duggins

in your defence, his fielding Burgundian Ordonnance vs. your Early Libyans wasn't all that fair. Or was it the other way around? Seriously, what were the armies?

Hamdanids (Ray) v's Sassanids

And you didn't even force a CT from shooting?

Were your glasses on?

I think he had Wayne Hansen's lucky dice Dan.

Only Ray could do that ,presumably the club is having new windows due to the flying chairs
David

I have only seen a worse defeat when I played my four year old at battleship.

Oh I think I can do worse, I once had one with another well known set of Ancients rules. Parthians vs Sassanids in my first game with a LH based army. I had planned to get my Parthian LH out from in front of the Sassanid superior Cavalry, just in time for my cataphracts to slam into the enemy but did not quite time it right. Lost due to army becoming demoralised (10-0 in DBM scoring) in 2 turns, without recoiling or destroying a single element of Sassanids. Just one of my many defeats at the hands of the Sassanids.

I have only seen a worse defeat when I played my four year old at battleship.

Too bad you were beaten so badly