MeG Tournament - Toil 2023
This weekend just gone - I attended the MeG TOIL Tournament organised by the superb Will at the wonderful Boards & Swords Shop in Derby.
After deploying, realised that the Caliphal out flank could appear on my right side on turn 1!
And as the only units I could see were on the left flank decided to advance across the table.
Forgot to take any photos of this game as was concentrating far to hard on what was happening
Terrain rolled up - secure right flank of Forests and two scrub on the board edge.
Nothing to stop my cavalry charging in
One thing to note: I deployed two units of Thematic on the right flank as I could see a direct line to the enemy camp which would need to deploy something to stop me - so down goes a Superior unit of Cavalry.
So I decided to place my two Superior Tagmata on the table edge - so how is this going to work!
In my first turn the two Thematic turn 180 round and double move in a Wheel, second turn they again double move to my left to bolster the end of the line, while the Tagmata then advance to fill the space.
This would only work if I got good cards!!!
Turn 1 - my Legendary gets 3 White and 2 Green cards, while the Competent got a Black to 2 Greens - Phew, I can upgrade one of these Greens to Yellow with the General - that was a bit close for comfort.
As can be seen the rest of the game went to plan - two initial charges kill 3 bases each off the Breton Milites cavalry - soon to be dead Milities!
Had to throw my Thematics into combat to stool the flanking Bretons, manage to take down the Average unit but will lose to the Superior Cavalry.
Does by me time to engage and destroy rest of the Bretons - this time a unit of Superior Nobles are brought down to 3 bases after my 'Charge Only Bow' do 2 wounds before charge combat.
Which leads onto the destruction of the final two units of Average Milites on the left & right of the stoic Nobles in the middle
Again - terrain just as I like it, open and not impeding my charges :)
All lined up and ready to go - not a single card required for the charge - Tally Ho!
Just realised that the two White Dice I should have replaced with Skull dice (doh!)
These 3.5 bases of damage was enough to seal the doom for the Ostrogoth Cavalry who fought on valiantly but in the end succumbed to me being able to roll wounds on every melee combat on Greens & Whites, while Ian could only roll mostly blanks (it happens)
Final Results - a respectable 10th place having only won two games.
Lots of Byzantine armies just above me - will be interesting to see how their armies put together compared to mine?
