The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool at Germany 2024
Medieval German vs Sahelian Empire
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
The remainder of the evening was spent jollily walking round the setting-up phases of Christmas Market season in Koblenz, taking in an epic Schnitzel meal with Currywurst as a particularly classy starter, and then strolling down by the river wondering what the weird blue emissions were over the tops of a nearby hillside
The next morning, after more bread and another suburban Rhine-side bus trip, the Germans were back in Germany facing this time one of the Sahelian Empires
Unabhängigkeitserklärung! A wall of Camels (in the shape of a predictable Tuareg allied contingent) was the main pointy bit of a large army of dusty sub-Saharan warriors who arrayed themselves in vast numbers in between a narrow defile in the blocks of terrain which festooned the battlefield like currywurst around a sausage
Keen to sweep out the terrain and allow the Cantonese spearmen to rush forward and try and pin the enemy Tuareg Camels into a plantation with a rapid advance, the Germanic handgunners raced ahead, only to find a rather more numerous ambush than they had hoped
Schmetterlingsschwanzfalte! It was a mass of mounted camel warriors with escorting light infantry which faced the shooters, square on at the edge of terrain
Lebensmittelunverträglichkeit! The canny camelistas then sent forth their own skirmishers to block the evade of Germany's finest mechanical gunnery infantrymen, after which the Camels themselves lurched unsteadily out of the plantation to sweep away the hapless high tech shootists at the first moment of contact!
ADLG hint - If someone is behind your unit and facing it (aka "ZoCcing" it), then you can't evade. To add insult to injury, Light Foot caught in the open by "real" (non light) troops are immediately destroyed, no dice needing to be rolled
The camelry were by now ploughing onwards, not too fussed about the rough terrain of the plantation but even less concerned about the wall of German spear and pikemen facing them
Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften! The Free Canton spearmen has really hoped to catch the Camels in the disordering congestion of the vineyard plantation, but even so they now only faced 2 of the snorting beasties, so with a bit of width and the innate spear-ey advantaged their brethren had against charging Medium cavalry perhas this would still work out OK in the end?
Well, perhaps not. The Camelry wave of not quite horseflesh bowled forward, meeting a line of only partial resistance from every type of German troop available
The Camels had spectacularly checked the German response to their impudent attacks - none more so than the Light Camel at the left hand end of their first wave who had somehow managed to withstand the attack of a mounted Impact Knight German Commander with an additional overlap to boot !
Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung! – The Light Camel simply refused to die! Even as the German infantry line pressed forward, and the Germans poured more men into support their Commander (who in this shot is starting at a mere 3-0 up with better armour as well), the courageous odds-defying Cameleer continued to refuse to fall.
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Hochgeschwindigkeitszugverbindung! By now the German Pikemen had long since left their commander to deal with the camel-poop-smelling mess he seemed to be stepping in, and were rushing forward as fast as their little Teutonic slippers could take them to try and engage yet more of the Tuareg camelry, who now stood in their way of an unlikely pike-based envelopment of the Sahelian centre.
On the opposite flank there were thankfully no Camels, but the incoherent command structure of the rag-tag German Kampfgruppen was proving more than a match for the abilities of it's commander even without enemy action interfering
Struggling to roll high enough pips to keep all of the various elements of his command moving in even vaguely the same direction and at the same speed, the German leader started to see his force break apart with some of the supposedly better elements (he Teutonic Knights!) being he ones left behind
Einwegpfandflaschenverordnung! By now the sneaky Sahelians had managed to almost totally redeploy their original Central infantry command onto the far right extremities of their army, and it was even now emerging in untold numbers through the terrain just about in time to see the Tuaregs complete their spectacular overrunning of the still-reeling German left flank.
On the right the German pikemen, halberdiers and War Wagons were finding that they were chasing shadows, as the Sahelian warriors faded back into the mists of the German Gymnasium desert
Klodeckelbefestigungsschraube! – This could proe to be a very long way for them to have walked only to find that an inferior quality enemy made up mostly of archers actually had no intention of hanging around to fight a solid line of Pikemen and halberdiers!
Teppichreinigungsgerät!
That's pretty much all there is to say about this photo, which just shows how completely and utterly the entire left flank of the German army has been eradicated y the fat-moving redeployment and fierce charges of the Tuareg/Sahelian empire troops in this part of the table
Staubsaugerroboter! With Sahelian warriors seemingly everywhere all at once, the hard-pressed Germanic Feudal Knights eventually succumbed, having spent half the game struggling to beat a lone Light Camelry rider
A fitting end to a dreadful day out for the embattled and now very Camel-phobic Germans
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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
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