there's no plan for the 2nd day right now. there's no data on the numbers and dispositions. as for the venetians, they didn't seem to have done any fighting. the mere sighting on them convinced the swiss to withdraw. it wasn't a 'the prussians are coming' situation. marignano is a great pike on pike...

then you play the carthaginian army, which is the most similar to the syracusans'.

Danny you didn't password protect your challenges, i see them out in the public area. cancel them and re-do them.

Fm Marignano 1515.zip 12 jan 2015 A complete make-over to incorporate the new design language and give the 'battle of giants' an adequate treatment. The scenario condenses the two day battle, with the Swiss attack on the French left and the arrival of the Venetian vanguard on the second day being m...

Sorry, I am back "online" I am unfamiliar with the format. I was Later Sicilian. What do I do now?? Danny Weitz Now all your games will be against Syracusans. For example, in round 1 you played against my Pyrrhic army. In this round we exchange armies, I play Syracusans and you Pyrrhics. ...

Round 2: mirror games. all the rules governing the makeup of armies apply. see first post. remember: 4 leaders (including one inspired). show army when challenging. "very open" terrain. receiving players: make sure also you have it "very open" (because the default is "mixed&...

your battle was also ahistorical on account of the fact that swiss mercenaries would not fight other swiss mercenaries (unlike the landsknechte). they would not contract themselves out to opposing armies in the first place so that whether they would fight each other is moot. After 1515 and until the...

'lansquenetes' are landsknechte, german mercenary pikemen.

Update: placement of the Alamanic host changed. Fm Argentoratum 357.zip ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OLD Argentoratum 357.zip Otherwise known as the Battle of Strasbourg. The costly civil war in the early 350's had collapsed the Rhine fron...

A Division

fogman (bosporan late) 32/39 vs pantherboy (gepids) 57/54

the bosporans took advantage of the scattered deployment of the gepids and their own great mobility to deliver a devastating blow to the gepids' left wing, then hunkered down to weather a furious counter-attack.

guns were only for defensive purposes. it wasn't until the advent of aggressive horse artillery that they become a true offensive weapon on the battle field. so the huguenot guns will not be used much in the first phase with the huguenots on the attack. but as the catholic right wing arrives they sh...

we'll start the next round mid week.

:lol: Let me wade into this with my trusty Longbow once more. Mr Fogman you are from an achademic background well what does that prove?Have you ever used a longbow or any bow?Well matey i have and im sorry but my knowledge of bows would far supersede yours.I my friend have quite a collection, which...

anybody still playing in first round?

This is a complete rewrite of the battle. Most of the cavalry are now outside of the main battlefield as it happened historically. Major revision on the numbers involved. For all intent and purposes this is a new scenario. Fm Guinegatte 1479.zip ------------------------------------------------------...

You are free to prowl the internet as much as you want. but if you want to argue cogently, you've got to be prepared. i come from an academic background (no longer in academia though) and we don't have patience for approximations. the FOG lists on ordonnance french are not very historical. the franc...

this is too funny. you purport to prove me wrong by quoting an un-referenced wargaming blog; and that's supposed to supersede my use of primary sources... what actually makes me laugh, other than turk's subsequent sycophancy, is that the said blog has two illustrations, one showing a longbowman with...

item 2: Nowhere did i say longbowmen were ineffective, rather, they were NOT AS EFFECTIVE as we are led to believe here, you know, "better than napoleonic musket volleys", could dominate swiss pikes etc... if longbowmen are to be augmented because of their rate of fire, then this has to be...

On the topic of francs archers: I'm afraid wikipedia isn't very good for you. The actual royal ordonnances (in original medieval french!) that created them are available here: http://lerozier.free.fr/ordonnance.htm Ordonnance 1448: (5) item: "en point de hucge de brigandines ou de jaques, de sa...

the machine gun was revolutionary in that it rendered a key feature of the battlefield obsolete overnight: the massed infantry charge. the longbow was evolutionary. it changed nothing. furthermore it was never copied. the french stuck to their heavy cavalry as the main battle troops. by 1500, the lo...