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It's been a while since I got to play Battlelore so I was pleased to get the set out last night for a game with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alaimacerc. We set up the second scenario from the book, 'The First Chevauchee', which from context I can only guess means 'meat grinder'. It's a perfectly balanced set-up, with identical troops on each side and pretty similar terrain across the board.
After a fairly long set-up and rules explanation foralaimacerc, who was playing for the first time, we got stuck in. The first couple of turns for both of us involved mostly ineffective archer fire against the others' front rank. Despite two 'Darken the Sky', plus a 'Counter-attack' cards the archers really didn't make an impression on their opponents, and we then began manoeuvring to close the range and join melee. We moved both moved up on my left wing, and then in the centre, before decisively closing in the centre for a real bloodbath.
alaimacerc moved up a good chunk of his infantry and brought cavalry round on his right to savage my troops in the centre. I used a couple of 'Attack!' cards in the centre to inflict two good rounds of losses against his units. Then I sort of ran out of steam. I didn't really have the cards to follow through and left a couple of units easy pickings for the other side. alaimacerc has some poor luck and didn't finish me off quickly, leaving me the chance to inflict more damage on his men, but in the end the battle went to alaimacerc's Charles of Blois, final score: 5 flags to 3.
I enjoyed the game, and liked that we used all the 'Medieval' rules in the game, with retreats, pursuits and battle backs, even if my cavalry managed to blow an easy roll that would have allowed me a juicy pursuit attack. It's obviously a more balanced scenario than the Agincourt scenario, and one I'll definitely play again.
alaimacerc. We set up the second scenario from the book, 'The First Chevauchee', which from context I can only guess means 'meat grinder'. It's a perfectly balanced set-up, with identical troops on each side and pretty similar terrain across the board. After a fairly long set-up and rules explanation for
alaimacerc, who was playing for the first time, we got stuck in. The first couple of turns for both of us involved mostly ineffective archer fire against the others' front rank. Despite two 'Darken the Sky', plus a 'Counter-attack' cards the archers really didn't make an impression on their opponents, and we then began manoeuvring to close the range and join melee. We moved both moved up on my left wing, and then in the centre, before decisively closing in the centre for a real bloodbath. alaimacerc moved up a good chunk of his infantry and brought cavalry round on his right to savage my troops in the centre. I used a couple of 'Attack!' cards in the centre to inflict two good rounds of losses against his units. Then I sort of ran out of steam. I didn't really have the cards to follow through and left a couple of units easy pickings for the other side. alaimacerc has some poor luck and didn't finish me off quickly, leaving me the chance to inflict more damage on his men, but in the end the battle went to alaimacerc's Charles of Blois, final score: 5 flags to 3.I enjoyed the game, and liked that we used all the 'Medieval' rules in the game, with retreats, pursuits and battle backs, even if my cavalry managed to blow an easy roll that would have allowed me a juicy pursuit attack. It's obviously a more balanced scenario than the Agincourt scenario, and one I'll definitely play again.