2018 NJCON AAR.....

Friends,

On June 9th I attended Fire In The East, A.K.A NJCON, in Edison, NJ. I always enjoy this convention. I played in The Battle of Bauge, March 1421 a Modified Tactica event put on by John Spiess. 

The set-up with the English on the right, Franco-Scottish on the left.

Here is the game description:
The Battle of Bauge, March 1421
With Henry V back in England, the army was now commanded by his brother Thomas, 1st Duke of Clarence. He engaged a combined Franco-Scots army at Bauge. Instead of waiting for his entire army to assemble, he attacked with only a portion of troops, leading to a great defeat and his own death. What would have happened if he had waited just a few more hours for his archers to return from foraging?

Franco-Scottish

English of  Thomas, 1st Duke of Clarence

I played on the English side.....

Our first moves were to send the archers out to start peppering the Franco-Scots and see what they would do....

...they responded by moving their archers and crossbowmen out to answer.

The original English plan of "let's take it to them" was quickly modified (after we lost a couple of units) to "let's move out, draw them in, then reform our line and see if we hold."

Here we have moved our right out and they counter by sending units toward the gap in our line.

The next few turns have us reforming out lines.......

...and the Franco-Scots continue to press.

Heather Blush and Erin Spiess contemplating their next move. 

We left a gap in our center/left in attempt in an attempt to have them press there and then close with our mounted knights.....

A few turns later you can see the result of the archer fire by comparing the picture above and below.

The English were able to knock out units with archer fire which meant we were able to knock out 6 units (victory condition) before they were. So it ended up an English victory.

John put on a great game and as always, the figures were tremendous!!