Thursday Night Fights!

Hmm… been bad about posting, so let’s try to get some battle reports going. However, we are still without the camera (misssus went out of town again with it). 4 players (and LOTS of spectators) showed up at the house to witness the gaming.

We played DBA first, then BBDBA singles. Initial pairings for the DBA games had my son Sean (running his now infamous Templar Later Crusaders) vs Roy Martin (running Feudal Spanish b list with blade general option). My opponent (WIll Orso) ran Vikings (b list with bow option) while I ran the Welsh (b list with Kn Gen option).

For our DBA game, Will invaded (duh with 4 agro!) Wales, so I threw up a couple of steep hills, a woods and a river.

Below is our initial setup and moves:

Vikings and Welsh initial moves

To Will’s credit, he charged into my warbands - IN THE WOODS - like a true viking. He even pushed them back a turn, but then the “1’s” came out to play, and he lost the woods battle.

On the hill, his lone bowman was shot down by 3 of mine, leaving him at a 0-3 disadvantage.

The psiloi on my left then flanked his general (who was climbing the hill) and I got another bowman in on the second round of combat to finish him off. 4g-0 win for the Welsh.

In the BBDBA games (which at this point I can’t remember everything), Sean (using triple Later Crusaders) won a hard fought contest (73-17) versus Will (using Norse Irish with Viking Ally). I faced Roy Martin (who was using triple Feudal Spanish) using Welsh with a Norse Irish Ally. Unfortunately for Roy, he fell for a deployment trap (mounted trying to rush a valley between steep hills and woods), and he was gunned down by all the Welsh bow, 100-0.

Next week, we take a break to get ready for BBDBA Post-Tax Day tourney in Ohio.