Bogavania Versus Beerstein - A New Age
Bogavania and Beerstein have been training their men in pikes and improved firearms, the matchlock and cannons but fully armoured knights still go to battle.
The view from the Beersteiner left flank They have cautiously move forward and halted.
Bogavanian foot knights, contemptuous of enemy commoners armed with matchlocks and pikes, advance.
Beersteiner knights, on their right flank advance to create a trap for enemy mounted knights.
Beersteiner artillery support them and kill a few enemy knights.
Bogavanian knights shrug off some bad shots from the nervous Beersteiner matchlock men; only a small number fall.
More Beersteiners hold the road into the town.
The Bogavanian knights slam into the matchlock men and decimate them. The Beersteiners are driven back but manage to return a few casualties.
Bogavanian pikemen from the Pisspot regiment suddenly charge the Beersteiner matchlock men, driving them back but the latter fight back stubbornly.
Bogavanian mounted knights fall into the trap.
Bogavanian mounted knights charge the enemy musketeers.
The Beerstriener left flank is perilous.
Meanwhile Beersteiner pike column charges the enemy knights in the centre. The other unit of pikemen hesitates. The knights are at least temporarily halted. Another unit of musketeers awaits the outcome of the nearby melees.
These Bogavanian musketeers look doomed.
Beersteiner knights charge the last of the Bogavanian knights. A number of knights bit the dust but once they close the musketeers were minced.
The Beersteiner general and his guard watch the assault.
DETAILS OF THE GAME
Each side consisted of a unit of mounted knights a unit of foot knights, three matchlock units and two pike units as well as two cannons with crew. Mounted: 12 figures Foot: 24
Mat and I began at 11 am, had an hour break and finished at 2:30 pm. The game had 11 moves and resulted in a victory for my Beersteiners. However, I had only my general and staff, two units of knights and two cannons with crew left at the end of the game as all my commoners were dead! The Bogavanian general and guard survived.
Although the matchlocks were not accurate weapons I expect them to have had better results against massed troops. They did not kill huge numbers of the knights charging directly at them so I am going to marginally increase their to hit/wound score, especially at short and medium range.
I put my two pike units in column which worked well as I had a rule where four ranks of pikemen could fight in melee (it had been three for spear men in our previous battles). I forgot to add rank bonuses for melee resolution, which would have further strengthened their results. As it was they had some temporary success against the foot knights but in the end were pulverised.
We also forgot to add separate combat for unit officers.
The rules were the same we used for our previous Bogavanian command. These have some influence from Warhammer except I use 12 sided dice that combine results for hitting, wounding and armour save - one die role for figure instead of three. We are just playing individual battles rather than a campaign for now, We are going to play another game of a similar nature in a week or two.
FUTURE GAMES
Other games scheduled will be Bogavanians and Beersteiners united against orcs with some monstrous creatures included. Renaisance Fezia against Beerstein is another game we will play.. Fezia will not have pike but will have horse archers and possibly a war elephant! As mentioned another time, Fezia is a combination of medieval Turkey, ancient Persia and various Middle Eastern and Eastern lands. It also has an Aztec colony! Also planned is Funny Little Wars era, Ameriga versus Redia.
The view from the Beersteiner left flank They have cautiously move forward and halted.
DETAILS OF THE GAME
Each side consisted of a unit of mounted knights a unit of foot knights, three matchlock units and two pike units as well as two cannons with crew. Mounted: 12 figures Foot: 24
Mat and I began at 11 am, had an hour break and finished at 2:30 pm. The game had 11 moves and resulted in a victory for my Beersteiners. However, I had only my general and staff, two units of knights and two cannons with crew left at the end of the game as all my commoners were dead! The Bogavanian general and guard survived.
Although the matchlocks were not accurate weapons I expect them to have had better results against massed troops. They did not kill huge numbers of the knights charging directly at them so I am going to marginally increase their to hit/wound score, especially at short and medium range.
I put my two pike units in column which worked well as I had a rule where four ranks of pikemen could fight in melee (it had been three for spear men in our previous battles). I forgot to add rank bonuses for melee resolution, which would have further strengthened their results. As it was they had some temporary success against the foot knights but in the end were pulverised.
We also forgot to add separate combat for unit officers.
The rules were the same we used for our previous Bogavanian command. These have some influence from Warhammer except I use 12 sided dice that combine results for hitting, wounding and armour save - one die role for figure instead of three. We are just playing individual battles rather than a campaign for now, We are going to play another game of a similar nature in a week or two.
FUTURE GAMES
Other games scheduled will be Bogavanians and Beersteiners united against orcs with some monstrous creatures included. Renaisance Fezia against Beerstein is another game we will play.. Fezia will not have pike but will have horse archers and possibly a war elephant! As mentioned another time, Fezia is a combination of medieval Turkey, ancient Persia and various Middle Eastern and Eastern lands. It also has an Aztec colony! Also planned is Funny Little Wars era, Ameriga versus Redia.
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