BritCon 2022 - MeG Tournament
From the Friday 12th to Sunday 14th August was attending BritCon 2022 event to play in the MeG Open competition.
I decided to take my Late Nikephorian Byzantine 'All' Cavalry list that I enjoyed using last year in a themed event. Slight change as I decided not use any 'Horse Archers' this time.
Game 1 - vs Anglo-Irish army
Scenery ended up with a secure left flank of rough ground while I managed to remove anything appearing in the centre or right flank.
Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of the battlefield setup, so here we are after my first move as I charged my cavalry towards the right flank to take on just one side of the long line of troops.
Unfortunately for me the enemy Longbow units were able to intercept my attack and cause horrendous casualties to the cavalry (just like at Agincourt).
I pushed through and did manage to take out three units before my army was broken.
Loss 5-15 pts
Game 2 - vs Classical Greek army
The scenery ended up on a coastal region with the left flank covered, while all but a village appeared on the right flank (I had placed it on my far right corner so that the Greek troops could not use it, but my opponent managed to move it across into my deployment zone)
Having out scouted the Greeks by 70%, I found a long line of Long Spear troops in front of me. So I decided to place my cavalry next to and in the village with the view to rush the right flank where the Greek cavalry had mustered.
Things looked good until my opponent managed to pull out a number of superb turns of his Long Spears that then threatened the flank of my cavalry charge - things suddenly went horribly bad for me as the spearmen smashed the cavalry to pieces
Loss 0-15 pts
Game 3 - vs Galatian army
Scenery ended up with a secure left flank of rough ground and more rough ground and a wood on the right flank, this left a big open space in the centre for my cavalry to charge down the Galatian infantry.
I managed to advance extremely fast on the left flank hitting the enemy cavalry and supporting troops, I managed to pull off a retreat and re-charge in on the Galatians, units started breaking and soon multiple KaB tests resulted in the Galatians breaking
Win 15-2
Game 4 - vs Middle Sassinad Persians
Unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures for this game, the battle field ended up very open with just some rough ground in the centre of my deployment zone.
Again I managed to out-scout the Persians by just 20% but this did enable me to see how the Persians where going to form up.
So I amassed my Cavalry on the far left flank opposite the non Cataphract cavalry, which I charged down and destroyed, while my smaller units of cavalry quickly advanced off towards the left away from the Elephant unit and the lone Byzantine Cataphract unit faced off four units of Persians.
Unfortunately we ran out of time for an incomplete game.
Win 9-4 pts
Game 5 - vs Late Imperial Roman army
Final game of the event, I unfortunately failed to determine the scenery and my opponent managed to get lots of scenery of three forests and two woods - giving him a perfect zone in which to defend.
So it was up to me to go charging in on this fortified zone.
After some careful movement I was ready to charge in, did manage to cause a good number of hits, then block retreated and went back in again.
Unfortunately the Romans had been hiding his Exceptional Praetorian Guard in the Forest and was able to come in on my flank.
Units starting breaking everywhere, but before we could get to a conclusion time was called - so incomplete game
Loss 6-8 pts (was just a couple minutes away from breaking the Roman Cataphracts for a draw)
End result of the Tournament had me in 19th place out of 22.
Still it was a great event and really consider going again.
Lessons learned:
- Cavalry need to keep well away from Longbowmen
- Think about using PBS cards to influence battlefield map location than for out scouting
- Watch your flanks, sometimes better to face the enemy than trying for the charge
