Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Medieval

 Jim & Gary of York v. Mike & Chris of Lancaster

The Yorks are in the foreground.  They have placed their cavalry in the centre with a division of spears & bows on their left guessing that the Lancs would mass their superior numbers of cavalry on their right.
On their left the Yorks have deployed their spearmen to face the Lancs cavalry with bow men in the orchard to fire at the enemy's flank.  On the right 2 divisions of York infantry have advanced with their cavalry kept in reserve.
On the left the Yorks spearmen are holding off the enemy knights.  On the right the Yorks withdrew their bowmen after a short exchange of arrows & attacked with their billmen.  The infantry are holding their own on the right, but not so good on their left. Half the York cavalry have been sent suport the infantry in the centre. 
Mitzi inspects the troops.
The Yorks spearmen are still holding off the knights, but sergeants are working around their flank.  The Yorls cavalry attack in the centre have a bad case of the dice yips & has failed to break thru.  The infantry continue to slug it our on the right.
On the left some York cavalry covered the spearmen's flank & the Lancs knights have broken.   On the right, the Yorks centre infantry div has broken & their cavalry has been destroyed.  But the Lancs left flank infantry has also broken.  The Lancs have lost 2 divisions, York only , but their cavalry is trouble.
On the left, the Lancs sergeants broke the York cavalry, but then fell back n the face of the York spearmen with bows on their flank.  The Yorks began moving to support their right, but the sergents returned to pin them down.  On the right, the York's other remaining infantry division is falling back , outnumbered by the Lanc's centre infantry div. At this stage time was called, the battle a draw with both sides blaming bad luck for their failure to win.  

The Lancs knights were unlucky against the York spearmen, but their infantry did threw very good dice in the centre beating the Yorks best infantry & half their cavaly, and several times bad command dice prevented the Yorks from exploiting opportunities.

 


1 comment:

Gonsalvo said...

That's quite a large WotR collection there!