Field of Glory Wargaming at Oxford Doubles, 2009
Game 4 saw us facing .... a Mamluk Army who's list is available here
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This time we managed to win the terrain roll - and frankly that was that as regards the tactical improvement that we needed to make our army effective.
We could now fill the open parts of the table side to side with a mix of knights and spearmen, and just roll forward and hopefully crush the enemies skirmishing cavalry.
On our left, the enemy LH tried to sneak past the woods before we moved up, but our LH were there to close the door on them.
Even though our knights were tempted into rash charges, it didn't really matter a jot as the enemy had no answer to them.
The colourful Eastern Cavalry and LH maneuvered confidently in front of our knights but still they had little hope of achieving anything of note.
Things were progressing so calmly everywhere that just to make life interesting we decided to charge some disrupted LF in a wood with our cavalry.... cue much flicking through the rules to see how this might pan out....
Charge!! Evade!!! Flee!! Shoot!!
Eventually the LH screen were cleared out of the way, and now the Cavalry hove into view of our implacable knights...
A couple of short charges had left one blob of our knights lying back, but still nothing was threatening our relentless advance.
Even as the crazy foreigners tried to innovate by sneaking some infantry through a wood, all they achieved was to give our LH a target to shoot at, and suddenly they were reeling under the weight of shooting!
The Poles were getting over confident, and started charging into anything they could see.
But cavalry johnnies couldn't stand up for long, and soon knights and spearmen were homing on on an enemy force that knew it stood no chance and was running out of time and table.
At last, even the Spearmen formations were up and running and chasing down the Mamluks. Cruncharama....
Fight!!!!
With the Poles looking on in astonishment, the pirouetting Ottomans turned round their flanks and thought carefully about whether they dare charge in. Even this barely made this side of the table interesting?
Everywhere the Mamluks were outmatched. And then everywhere they were beaten...
Post Match Summary
A simple and crushing victory. The Mamluks were not as good as our army on a 4 foot frontage, and (other than deciding to evade off table in an unsporting fashion) they could do nothing more than stand bravely and fight poorly. This time it was our opponents turn to realise that their army wasn't tough enough wide enough to contest the game seriously on a narrow table, and so it was 3 hours of pain for them - but also a degree of tedium for us - until finally it was over.
Hannibal's Post Match Analysis
So,
it's terrain. Narrow it down and you win, leave it open and you lose.
Luckily you won the terrain dice and the bits fell well, so you won the game. The enemy army this time was poorly constructed with no superior troops, but even so I think you'd have turned over the Ottomans on this table as well.
However you are right, this wasn't much of a battle, or a game, either, Next time you enter a LH heavy period I may send a substitute to watch, as I might be home washing my luxurious hair.
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