ADLG - Game Report 45

Low Countries (243) vs Medieval Scots (232)

My second opponent at Beachhead was David with his Medieval Scots; his army included some pretty fierce Highlanders. Not to mention some terrain to navigate, which I put down, before I could get at those Highlanders. At least my flank was protected by the coastline. I placed my infantry corps on the left and centre and my Knights with their supports on the right.

I managed to extricate myself from the field before coming into contact, while I had to to do a bit of smart manoeuvring with the halberdiers to overcome their mal-deployment!

By the time contact was achieved, as usual, I had taken a number of cohesion hits from aimed fire. However, at this stage my line was broadly together.

The hand-to-hand combat was brutal! At one stage I was very close to losing the game, but in the end, I came away with a draw caused by mutual destruction.

Outcome

A bloody draw which I rescued from the jaws of defeat on the last turn and which surprised David as he thought he was over the line! In my view a draw was a sound outcome for me after two battles - better than previous tournament campaigns

Lessons Learnt

The finer points on terrain selection and placement sometimes pass me by!

In commands with mixed horse and foot, it is better to keep the foot together and the horse together to make best use of the command points.