Mortem Et Gloriam - Early Medieval French vs Seljuk Turkish

 

Another game of MEG today with Stephen.

He wished to try his Seljuk Turks circa 1090AD and I have very little that late besides Normans but (mainly due to lack of enough figures for Maximus sized game with Normans) I went with Early Medieval French circa 950AD, as I could field my limited Viking units as Allies.

So a charging army against a 'shooty' army.

Turks have Professional Generals and a large PBS hand of cards and so could manipulate the set up to a Plain with no secure flanks.

Also they outscouted the French by 110% so entire French Army deployed first !

I anticipated a flank march so had to hold 2 units to cover any such adventure, the Turks did send one unit of Horse Archers onto my right flank.

The Turks are rather good shooters with several units able to avail of Skilled Shooting, the 'upgrade' from White to Green dice when shooting is pretty potent (especially with the 'Demons' rolling) being able to inflict significant damage on the French mounted as they try to close to contact.

One unit of Turks got caught whilst skirmishing and annihilated but the others got significant licks in against the French prior to combats.

Some horrible cards (2 x black 1 x white) for my right flank command over several turns (this always seems to happen to at least one command every game) saw the outflankers (who arrived on turn 2) shoot a unit of poor Spearmen to bits as they could not close to contact.

Another enjoyable game overall but with French losing requisite 5 Tugs but destroying 3 enemy TUGs, am suffering relentless defeats in MEG to Stephen just like I did in DBM and DBMM, but a much more enjoyable experience as a much less 'fiddly' set of rules and much less grand (and at times frankly silly) manoeuvring.

Is a toss up between MEG and LADG as to my preferred/favourite set of Ancients rules.