Here are a few pictures from my game on Saturday at the Hutt Valley Wargaming Club, my Later Polish vs Gary Lewis’s Free Companies. There is also a pic from the kitchen. We ran out of room in the hall with 17 games being played (seven of them 25mm DBMM), so the two Guild Ball games were set up in the kitchen.
It was a pleasure to play Gary and it was certainly a learning experience for me with my first DBMM book 4 army.
Most importantly, I learned knights need a second rank of more knights, cavalry or something behind them. My previous experience had been of using my armies from other books against knights and scrambling to avoid my troops being ridden down with quick kills. Well, knight vs knight is very different and not having a second rank was not good.
The other big lesson was an oldie but a goodie: Check angles and distances and don’t make assumptions. Specifically, all those archers really were in arc and range and I should have moved that sub-general. The -1 for the third element of archers shooting was exactly the difference between my sub-general recoiling and, instead, being doubled and his command breaking. Oops!
I did manage to break more than 30% of Gary’s army’s morale equivalents but by then I had lost more than 50% of my army’s. A deserved 19-6 win to Gary.
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| Some of Gary’s Free Companies’ knights — at St Brendan's School. |
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| Some of Gary’s dismounted knights — at St Brendan's School. |
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| Gary pondering after a few bounds — at St Brendan's School. |
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| Guild Ball in the kitchen. Tight for space but they were closest to the tea and coffee ☕️ — at St Brendan's School. |
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