The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool at Germany 2024
Medieval German vs WotR English
Game 1 Medieval German vs Samurai
Game 2 Medieval German vs WOTR English
Game 3 Medieval German vs Hungarian
Game 4 Medieval German vs Sahelian Empire
Game 5 Medieval German vs Flemish Low Countries
Game 2, and it is an Anglo-German matchup, with a German leading the WotR English, and a Brit leading the Medieval Germans.
The field of battle has fallen in a way which doesn't do all that many favours to either player, with a plantation-covered hill in the centre of the English deployment zone
Schlagobers! This will be a near-insurmountable defended obstacle for the Germans, with even the dyke-jumping peasants of Frisia not that keen to assault it, but equally the thick plantations of Mosel grape variety vines will leave no clear fields of fire for the English longbowmen to rain down arrows on the steel helmeted heads of the advancing Helmuts and Svens
ADLG hint - A plantation counts as "cover" in ADLG, meaning that all proper shooters get a -1 if shooting from or more accurately "through" any form of terrain that gives cover. It does also make them harder to be hit, but that is of little importance in this battle with the Germans relative paucity of firepower. The exception is for Light Foot, who can shoot out of cover with no further minuses to their shooting factors.
Umweltplakettenpflicht! The relatively tight and compact deployment of the English has left the more rotund (OK, "wider") German army slightly off balance, and the Frisian bog jumpers race inwards from the right to try and get close enough to be shot at by the waiting English longbowmen. The rest of the battle is a skirmish of skirmishers, as the two sides push up their light infantry to exchange desultory fire as the probing continues
Quatsch! The German left is where most of the forces of the Teutonic Horde have been concentrated, with Wagons of War, Teutonic Knights and a block of Pikemen and Halberdiers all shoving themselves forward againsgt the English right flank
The English have dropped off some KNights, both on horses and of the dismounted variety to hold up whatever they might find over here, and are no doubt somewhat surprised to find that it is a very germanic block of stolid and stout infantrymen with heavyweight science-fictionesque AFV support which is leading the slow and deliberate charge on their prepared positions
Verkehrsberuhigungsmaßnahme! Over on the right the Germans are carefully measuring their way out of range of the English Longbows, steadying their nerves for the 100 meter dash across the beaten zone to try and close to combat. Here another plantation is providing cover for the Free Canton militia, who 25.4mm their way forward under cover of the protecting camo of the vines.
Fingerspitzengefühl! Viewed from the top of a German castle turret overlooking the battlefield a classic English Herce formation can be seen emerging, as the Britannic army forms a gentle arc of defence with which to greet the gluwein-infused embrace of the slowly advancing Germans. At the top of the picture the Cantonese peasants have already started to make their move and are now breaking into a bratwurst-powered slow waddle as they hurl their bulk at the bulwark of the English longbowmen.
The shift toward infantry warfare in the Middle Ages
The Cantonese combined arms machinery is in combat! Their small detachment of lightened Knights (aka "cavalry") have joined in the assault, while the Samurai-smashing Knights of the first game are also into action
This is very much a do or die moment - the English advantages in shooting have been largely negated by the Canton troops' advance through the vinyard, but they are still potent fighters in close quarters combat - as are the dismounted Men at Arms too.
Backpfeifengesicht! On the opposite flank, caution rules as the Germans push past the end of the English line, bringing their nonsensically over-engineered mounted handgunners into play to threaten an envelopment.
The small force of mounted English nobility are wondering whether any of them have the narrative flair of Bill Shakespeare with which to inspire their army to a valiant charge - or whether when faced by Pikemen and Teutonic Knights, if even Kenneth Branagh himself would be capable of uttering words stirring enough to inspire them to victory?
Donnerwetter! The first round of combat had swung decisively in a very Germanic direction, with a slew of hit markers from the German stash only making their way onto the table because the English commander had forgotten to pack his own that morning. Almost all along the line the English had faltered under the hammer blows of the German attack, and the game was now essentially afoot for Harry & St George after barely one single peal of dice rolling had rung out across the Rhine.
The English almost instantly fall apart, as their defeat at the hands of the rapidly expanding German empire is complete. The KaiserGonome will be dining on pumpernickel bread in Hastings before the night is over one suspects, as a second victory is recorded in the Teutonic annals of the weekend!
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Game 1 Medieval German vs Samurai
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Game 3 Medieval German vs Hungarian
Game 4 Medieval German vs Sahelian Empire
Game 5 Medieval German vs Flemish Low Countries
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