ADLG - Game Report 3

Feudal French(175) vs Hundred Year's War English(225)

The first outing for my French. I decided to employ them as their feudal mode rather than the later period. A whole host of French heavy metal.

The French heavy metal is all cramped up on the right flank. A rather chaotic deployment when the CinC can't tell is right from his left. However we have managed to force the English light cavalry back.

On the French left the infantry are holding a firm flank, although to be candid it is not clear what they are protecting against that is a significant threat.

The French heavy metal has finally made contact and broken through the English line.  

While the battle rages in the centre and the right the French infantry felt left out and decide to close to battle; not entirely successfully!

Result

A French defeat, but in retrospect despite the deployment fiasco could have gone the other way with a little more aggressive combat rolls!

Lessons Learnt

• Make sure one deploys the corps needing the most space first.
• Read up and understand what impeteous troops can and cannot do.
• Think about buying some dismounted knights as an option.
• Longbows are powerful, but once you make contact they are probably toast