Competition is late medieval (lists 230-268) for which I have no armies so it was a loaner/proxy to field Knight of St John against which Stephen who was trying out a later HYW English list.
The HYW English were an almost entirely foot army (just 2 Irish light horse) and their medium foot longbowmen are bit different than earlier as they are no longer elite but do count as swordsmen in melee and were backed up by several spearmen and a couple of Men at Arms and Elite dismounted Knights and rounded off with a couple of Elite light infantry javelinmen. Total was 23 units with a strategist and 2 ordinary generals.
The Order of St John (a very scratch list on my part) fielded several Impact Knights (some Elite) with some heavy Cavalry Lancers a couple of Medium Bow cavalry and a mix of foot with lowly medium bow, a couple of spearmen and some dismounted Knights as well as a couple of light infantry with firearms and a light infantry bow unit. This totaled 21 units with 2 brilliant and 1 ordinary general.
No much to report as fairly quick game (even after re-setting after getting the terrain set up wrong) with the English shooting proving decisive along with some poor combat rolls (as usual) and the Longbowmen proving more durable than expected, but hopefully giving Stephen some food for thought re army makeup and viability.
Bit of a mish mash of pics as first six are of abandoned game and only last three of completed version
And a new arrival upon my return home (been waiting since Good Friday for these to arrive)
Only skimmed through thus far but the card based orders/command system looks interesting
I'll be interested on what you make of SON ;-)
ReplyDeleteJust given SON a full read through and seems it would give a nice game with plenty of events and decisions over card use (much like Maurice in many respects), hopefully get a run through soon.
Deletethanks I look forward to it.
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