Art De La Guerre

Another couple of the friendly matches played this week: Armenians vs Classical Indiands, and Visigoths vs Samurai

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Not a tournament match tonight but instead a historical matchup between the Sleeucids and Tigranes the Great's Armenians.

It was a interesting battle.

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And in tonight's second battle., the Tamils took ont he Carthaginians.

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At Durham Wargames Group we're running a tournament. I had my first match tonight. My Tamils took on Mal's Achaemenids.

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@Luddite - I admire your courage! Smile

Indeed!

It won us the Burton Doubles with our Tamils at BadCon this year.

Very Happy

Um, yes.

In ADLG you don't really need to worry too much about flanks.

The the right army, and elite impetuous heavy swordsmen fit that particular bill, you'll win the fight up front before your flanks fold ...

This weekend we had the priviledge of winning the Annual Badcon tournament at Burton.

Here's our list.

350pts,doubles, 4 commands.

Tamils
350pts / 45 units

Command 1
Competent commander ...

"can still get run down by knights if left unsupported in the open"

...which wouldn't fit with Wars of the Roses at all!

My understanding is that mounted troops were all but abandone ...

At the Battle of Edgecote (26 July 1469) Lord Pembroke had no archers, so clearly the archers and infantry were not integrated in the manner thast a "mixed" unit would suggest.

At Boswort ...

"1/2 Longbowmen 1/2 Heavy Swordsmen"

Except that's not really how WotR armies fought. The archers and infantry remained separate.

The porposed tactics above seem to accurately represe ...

Consensus? I think that's unlikely... Shocked

Opinions, for sure!

Personally I prefer HC over Cats as the Cats have manoeuverability problems that the extra armour and higher cost doesn't ma ...

In general i prefer mixed commands rather than a "cavalry command". My limited experience of LADG so far has been that commands that are "mini armies" with the ability to use vari ...

Agree it seems odd Maverick. Shocked

"should the list have said "upgrade all archers to longbowmen after 1284"?"

I think that would solve the issue. Edward I won at Falkir ...

Impetuous troops are a nightmare to control.

I'd reccomend changing the strategist for a few better commanders to give you at least a chance of 3 pips to hold them when you don't want them going in ...