Tuesday 16th September 2014

[Agincourt]

Definitely up for this.

Changes muted by various people were perhaps less hard cover for the defenders, or maybe tipping the force balance in favour of the attackers a little. Implementing both of those together might be too much though?

Unit numbers - Timewise I think we can do 8 units each (or 16 total) and get a whole game in. Actually the attckers had 10 units v 8 defenders (= +1 rusky +1 observer!!!). But freindly fire sorted that in turn two! So we had 18 units commanded. Maybe 18 is OK. I think 5 were destroyed.

The terrain set up was pretty much what I had in my head. As I see it the challenge for the attackers is getting squads across the table - without getting shot to bits. I thought attackers needed to cover the ground running (forget shooting for first two moves at least), using the light cover [which is what you started doing] (though there was heavy cover available in the ruined village - which you ignored) to minimise casualties. Some units at front get hit but those behind get across. The (indestructable) tank should definitely have charged across infront (also is hard cover) and wrecked havok.

I think it worked well enough. Your freindly fire that we are not talking about was a bad start. And we were forgetting the pin marker negatives so our shooting was probably better than it should have been early doors.

But when you did shoot, then yes the heavy cover for defenders was tough. But was it OP? Attackers are running -1, range -1, heavy cover takes to hit to 6+6 = 1 in 36. But light cover would just be 6's 1 in 6, that IS a big difference.

Mick's left flank defending unit in the wood, which was in action right through the battle, survived in light cover. Based on them surviving anyway and that big x6 difference then heavy cover does not appear necessary and should be less prolific. So maybe part of the defending side has some heavy cover and the rest is light.

Note: Next time round (as is) defenders will now have 10 units to 8 attacking...