a difficult challenge against the brothers at WAB Perry
For each character such as mine, difficult challenges, is the spice of life.
Already last year I had the opportunity to confront on the table with the British authors of the regulation, Warhammer Ancient Battles (WAB), but the company failed, because there is an army for my opponent Rick Prisley, Among other things it is one of the authors of WAB
So edition 2000, Lucca Comix & Games, I brought along, as well as my faithful Normans, well three other armies of miniatures (Byzantines, Crusaders, Romans)
Still eager to confront the English school, then relaunch the challenge. This time the twins Perry, sculptors of miniatures and co-authors.
WAB Brothers Perry gladly accepted the competition by choosing the Byzantine army to fight against my veterans Norman, already mindful of other battles. Also since they are two, we decide by mutual agreement, with me there must be another General. At that moment I could have chosen some of the strongest players in the Italian Wargame Federation (samples of Salerno), but instinctively I choose Andrea Vitrone of Viterbo, a former national champion of Warhammer Fantasy, already known in Rome at the tournament "The Durlindana" A blameless boy to the battlefield So God willing the 30/10/2.000 at 11 am in Hall of Lucca Games we are at the table, surrounded by a multitude of onlookers, supporters and supporters from a stage, but orderly. The Perry brothers in the army who had chosen the Byzantines. Andrea and I with me the Norman army. Both armies are built with 2000 points with two heavy cavalry, a little more than the normal 1,500 points from the tournament. In wanting to tell the whole, the comparison gives us a bit 'of concern, especially as we deploy our first, because the regulation provides that the opponents of the Byzantines schierino always first. We deployed our left flank and 6 archers 10 archers, more than one unit of infantry armed with axes and the Norman heavy cavalry, composed of 8 thumbnails. At the center we have made in training two heavy cavalry of 10 miniatures. Finally, the right flank, was held from 6 to 6 units of archers and light cavalry. The entire array is shifted to the right. The Perry brothers after observing the disposition of our troops. Have well-entrenched on a hill on their right, 15 crossbowmen, archers and one unit of variegated 6 (Viking mercenaries). Opponents difficult parts to deal with ever. More if placed in the "wall of shields" as shall bring the Perry. For more in the hills to attack them in that position is suicidal madness In the center put a unit of archers, then up another hill station, two units of Scutatoi with the side at the foot of the hill, two cavalry "catafratta "Armed with the second line of bows. In all, 20 miniatures and pungent as dangerous poisonous sea urchins. Their right side is guarded by archers and 6 of 6 miniature light cavalry armed with spear. Seeing the location perched above the hills, I note that the clash is like the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. The Perry brothers, at this point, smile and make clear spells. It must indeed remember that the Normans of William the Bastard, said the conqueror, in one single battle defeated the Saxon Harold conquering, all possessions in a single fight.
FIRST ROUND The first move is up to us. Faithful to the spirit that animates my Normans, we try to quickly close distance and move forward with the whole army, except crossbowmen and archers. The light cavalry, makes a wide turn to our groped for the right to bring close to the enemy side, with the aim of preventing any of his army advanced with the Byzantine Empire. Pulling with archers and crossbowmen stood still make some victim of the Archers opponents, but nothing nothing too sharp. The Byzantines, with their positions and aware of the danger they run side by our cavalry, light, decide not to move forward. By pulling their archers and crossbowmen on our military, where we procured the victims, including infantry, cavalry and heavy. All in all a first turn balanced, however, arise in which two different interpretations of the battle immediately. After the attack, one of the Normans. The other defensive. Even for non-small advantage of the position, the Byzantine.
SECOND ROUND
Andrea and I decide to keep still stuck crossbowmen and archers, and to continue advancing with the rest of the army, except the light cavalry, which he left as a thorn in the side to threaten the left wing opponent, ready to shoot. The advance has as its goal, the next turn, a front loader. To facilitate greatly the task of the attack on Byzantine positions shall shots of our lethal archers and archers, which damages the enemy archers on the hill, killing a large number of victims to test the moral unity 'Byzantine that it fails and flees ignominiously to the edge of the field. The Byzantines did not give up in their defense, do not move units, but they dropped a rain of arrows in our ranks, killing two heavy cavalry unit already proven by previous shots and forcing it to test your morals. These knights stubbornly held without fear. Other shots Byzantines killed two miniature light cavalry, forcing them to also test their morale. Even those good guys, but hold up. Tested, however, the losses are no longer a threat in the side of the Byzantine Empire. Although the losses inflicted on our troops, then, the Byzantines did not come down from their hills and in this decision, perhaps, is the key to resolving all of the fight.
THIRD TURNOA this point the tide of battle is hung by a thread. Our light cavalry not greater concern to the opponent. Thus reduced harm from enemy fire. We decide to take sides in a circle, to avoid being on the side to take our time. The most important decision to make, concerns the overall movement of our offensive unit. We must decide whether to attack with both the heavy cavalry, and take all the shots, the risk of being wiped out even before you get in contact or groped to attract enemy fire on the infantry and wait for another turn. The cavalry of the left and has only 6 riders, just enough to send her into confusion. Andrea is undecided, conscious that any move we decided to do is risky. The situation is not very simple. Among the ranks Channel begins to run the angry suspicion that the Byzantine treachery is to win. We are in an alley from which you must leave the Czech, but it is unclear how. It takes a decision at this point able to force the situation to break the deadlock and a decision "to Conan," in short. So I choose to converge in the center with a unit of soldiers to commit the two cavalry units Catafratta Byzantine, and stick with my heavy cavalry, composed of 6, knights, the unity of Byzantine archers positioned at the foot of the hill station. In this way, calling the shots on that side of my foot and so I can upload with my heavy cavalry of 10 units, with the general in the head Catafratti enemies. This decision is not taken lightly, in the office to Catafratti risk is whether it is deleted from our heavy cavalry plagued previous shots, and that the second row of catafratti-arm, joining with those shots of archers, can stop the charge of one of the heavy cavalry, leaving the other alone, with the side open. The main purpose of our move is share as much as possible the arrows of the Byzantines. Fortunately for us, the accurate shot of our magnificent archers finally sends routed the enemy archers already in arrears. At this point the Byzantine archers, probably unduly intimidated by the flight of his fellow soldiers, no longer hand too firm and not affect any Norman knight, being wiped out mercilessly by our small cavalry unit that pursues them right off the table. The clash of the Byzantine and the Norman chivalry fills the entire stand of Lucca Games. The Norman cavalry lost only one rider to pull and throw themselves into the fray against the powerful Catafratti Byzantines. In this delicate juncture into action, General Norman, a miniature complete with beard and belly that shows the full extent of what can make a true master at the crucial moment of the battle. Faces, in fact, hard-nosed General Byzantine silk lace and all, scored all 4 of his attacks and kills him: Encouraged by the other knights to perform their best work to death, sending enemies in 5 ' beyond the thumbnails. The Byzantine army shaken and recoils looking for escape. The Normans, now elated with the outcome of the clash of heavy cavalry, pursued and exterminated, by slaughter until the last rider. The rest of the Byzantine army, seeing the General died, the slaughter of his cavalry and finally the capture of one's own banner, swerves dangerously and a shiver of terror through it in its entirety. In fact, lose morale and everything is on course, looking way outside the table. "May Good, you are very dangerous," exclaimed a little 'stunned by the swift and bloody sequence of events one of the Perry brothers. So we have won a very difficult challenge but beautiful, those challenges that will eventually leave a good taste in the mouth and a kind and caring mood. Unselfish gift to the brothers so that Perry, my old banner battle (the banner of "Conan"). Perry Twins, flattered by this gift, not made in an email to us. We carve our faces with two miniatures. So Andrea and I now have a chief of our military commanders in our own image and likeness. Agree that not all possess two generals so unique! Finally, we dedicate this victory to all those who follow us in our hobby and especially the Italian Wargame Federation.
Conan
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