Since going to Brian Boru in Dublin didn't prove practicable for the Linköping contingent this year, we held our own mini-event with a AD 1014 theme yesterday, playing two rounds of DBMM 200 games. I took a Tribal Mongol army consisting of three generals - CinC, subordinate, and ally - each with two elements of cavalry (O) and a bunch of light horse (S)
In the first game, I met Micael's East Franks - all mounted and almost all knights. My flank march didn't deign to turn up and my attempts to get around the Franks' right flank came to naught, we instead ending up with the battlelines rotated by ~90°. Which'd'a been great because my flank march would then have arrived in the Franks' rear, but as said, it didn't arrive at all. I was thus reduced to ramming a line of light horse (S) into Micael's knights and praying to roll high - which I rather emphatically did, breaking his command at first contact. This left the next command with a wide open flank, and I could soon count a 25-0 victory, possibly not entirely deserved.
The second game put me against Johan's Norse Irish - all foot, with two viking allies. The terrain left flank marching unappealing, but I delayed a command to force Johan to worry I might have one anyway, and in the hope to draw him forward from his flank protection. The latter didn't really work out and I was again reduced to launching frontal attacks with my allegedly "manoeuvre" army. Still, I was destroying his elements faster than he was spending mine, and when time was called I had a winning draw at 14-11. We decided to play on "unofficially", and in the end I managed to break through one of the viking commands, whose demise brought the other with it, and therewith the army. Meanwhile, two of my commands, with masses of spent light horse, were teetering just above implosion. The score would have been 23-2.
25+14=39 points left me as the proud winner of the event.
