Slitherine

My second Field of Glory tournament and my second second-to-last finish!

Whoohooo! Can anyone say streak? I think this is the start of something big.

Round one: Steve Payne and I (War of the Roses) take on Harvey Harmon and Danny Weitz (Scots Isles and Highlands).

More reports on the way.

http://sites.google.com/site/mattheppe/ ... -round-one

Hey Matt!

Great report and photos, like the comments, too! Having myself relied on the English longbow to do the biz and seeing them roll handfulls of misses, I can truly empathise!

What was your list? I run a Yorkist Pretender and miss out the Irish altogether except sometimes a BG of LF kern, and I take the pikemen, maxing out on longbow and men-at-arms

Martin

My partner made the list. I'm a novice with longbow armies.

This might not be 100% correct, but it was something like this (100AP)

3xTC
1xally TC

1x4 ally dismounted men-at-arms (armored, superior, h.wpn)
1x8 ally longbow

4x4 dismounted men-at-arms
3x8 longbow
1x8 militia longbow
1x4 currours (armored, ave, cavalry, lance, sword)
1x4 border horse (prot, ave, light horse, lance, sword)
1x8 border spear (prot, ave, heavy foot, d-spear)
2x6 Irish kerns (prot, ave, med foot, light spear)
1x6 Irish kerns (light foot, jav/light spear)

I found the militia longbow to be a pain in the ass to use. They did a decent job of shooting up some ave German mercenary knights in one battle. The Kern medium foot were useful, if a little hard to maneuver. Good rear support. The currours were good for rear support, and keeping enemy medium foot honest. I didn't like having a single four stand unit of light horse. I was always out-skirmished.