The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool at Germany 2024

Medieval German vs ThisArmy

The final match - after a quick spot of unsurprisingly sausage-based lunch of course - hove into view like a barge full of pensioners cruising down the Rhine. This time the opposition would be the Flemish Phlegms from the Low Countries, an army from Mons marking a neat throwback to our earlier tourism exploits at the start of the journey

ADLG, The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool: Medieval German vs ThisArmy, 15mm

The Flemish were rather replete with Pikemen, although far fewer than perhaps would have been expected. The rest of the army was made up of a Belgian smorgasbord of dismounted and mounted knights, a couple of longbowmen, some crossboweers and not all that much else, all of which deployed in a solid block in the centre behind a well placed field which the Free Cantonese troops had already decided would be their prime target for the afternoons sport and entertainment

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ADLG, The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool: Medieval German vs ThisArmy, 15mm

Fahrzeughöhenbeschränkung! Racing forward the ever-efficient German army had made the most of its attacking prowess to ebact what was surely a brilliant plan in only the first turn, urging their men to get immediately as near to the Flemish line as possible

On the right the Free Canton spearmen had drifted toward the edge of the table, seeking to pull the Flemish mercenary Longbowmen out of line with their pikemen by the need to counter the Canton troopers beady eyes focusing on the Belgian baggage of barrels of Stella Artois and assorted beer snacks

On the opposite flank the Germans were also drifting wide too, preferring the idea of attacking crossbowmen to attacking better quality pikemen, leaving a solid Pike and - exciting times - dismounted German Knights in the centre to contest the clash of solid infantrymen that was surely coming

ADLG, The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool: Medieval German vs ThisArmy, 15mm

Duschvorhangbefestigung! The initial exchange of fire between skirmishers, Longbows and crossbowmen on the German left was soon threatening to be consequential without really meeting those criteria in full. Either way, the Belgians had just decided that sticking together was the best way forward, and advanced as a solid block which had the effect of somewhat hanging their English mercenaries out to dry in the face of superior numbers of Free Canton opponents

ADLG, The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool: Medieval German vs ThisArmy, 15mm

Schlagsahneverweigerung! The English however had ideas of their own it seemed, and in short order turned tail and retreated out of the way of the onrushing tide of almost-Danish bog jumpers

At this stage the Free Canton contingent would have been more than happy to end the game, counting a moral victory as more than sufficient satisfaction to return home with honour at the end of a great weekend - but no, the battle would continue even longer, and perhaps the Frisians could even make some dents in the Belgian pike line?!

ADLG, The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool: Medieval German vs ThisArmy, 15mm

Zwiebelschneidtrauma! The dastardly Belgians had their own dismounted knights, who stepped up smartly to replace the English archers in the line of scrimmage. This was a conundrum for the Free Canton foot, as they could not really take these Knights on in the open, but equally if they now turned the flank of the Belgian Phalanx the foot knights would eagerly enter the terrain to attack them in their own flanks in turn

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ADLG, The German Team Tournament: Medieval Pool: Medieval German vs ThisArmy, 15mm

Brötchenschnitttechnik! Things were already a bit of a mess on the opposite flank, as two commands faced off, both made up of more types of troops than was strictly necessary or indeed sensible

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