Pikemans Lament, GNW scenario Part 1 (The Battle of Ishkutchnayia)

[DintheDin]

I try to reorganize and move Major Zdravin to join the infantry

[DintheDin]

...while many more disasters await the Russians!
All my cavalry is routed, decimated or in shambles!

[DintheDin]

With their legendary Russian patience, the Iskutchnaya men wait...

[DintheDin]

Panos' cunning plan was to avoid the village and take the diagonal NW road...

[DintheDin]

Now, luck turned against the Swedes, to balance things a bit...
Colonel Blohm attacked the red Russian platoon, is defeated, retreats, gets a bad morale check and routs!
Two more Swedish units are affected and retreat!

[DintheDin]

The last round came when I lost my fifth Cossack unit and had one more unit retreating (its last base left).
The Cossacks were evaporated by the second cannon shot (the scenario allowed the cannon three shots - but two proved to be enough)

[Sunjester]

A fantastic report and a fun game.

[DintheDin]

A fantastic report and a fun game.

Thank you very much! Next week, hopefully we're going to play with a new PL scenario!

[DintheDin]

Who won the game:

I love this game, as it has a well-defined honor points system!
I think I put balanced honor points for this scenario, so lets look at honor points p.1:

The Russians had lost 5 units @4 points each, total -20 points.

The Swedes didn't manage to exit any unit from the map, but they didnt lose any of their invalid and wounded units, or the cannon or any of the wagons.
They lost 2 Grenadier units and their Captain's unit @6 points each, the flower of their army! Total -18 points.
In addition, they lost -1 points for losing their captain and -1 points from special events - they brought aces and their captain acted without panache, -1 point 
Plus: They had one unit of Swedish infantry depleted under half strength, -2 points.
Grand total -22 points.

But! They met the victory conditions, +5 honor points!
So, Panos' Swedish won my Russians with by 3 honor points, a marginal win for the Swedes!

Many congrats to Panos, it was his first time to play Pikeman's Lament and, a veteran player he is, he not only managed to play smoothly, but very soon he developed his own plans and strategy, proving that he is a tough opponent, as always!

Panos and I agreed that PL is an exciting game and very soon we'll give it another go!


 

[miltiades]

wonderful game. Didnt make it due to family obligations.
I see many pikemen lamenting

[DintheDin]

wonderful game. Didnt make it due to family obligations.
I see many pikemen lamenting

You know pal, that always your participation gives heart to the game and that your absence is always observed 
Next time, we will lament together 

[Marine0846]

Fine write up of the battle.
Daniel Mersey and friends have a series of hit rules on their hands.
My group has been playing both P.L. and Lion Rampant.
Like them both.

[DintheDin]

Fine write up of the battle.
Daniel Mersey and friends have a series of hit rules on their hands.
My group has been playing both P.L. and Lion Rampant.
Like them both.

Thank you for your kind words! They are both good stuff, indeed. Trying to spread them in our club.
I plan also a scenario with The Men Who Would Be Kings to be played soon.

[flatpack]

Great write up and great rules. Quick question, how are you posting the pictures, i.e. Via what software, as we know photobucket has gone belly up ?

[DintheDin]

Great write up and great rules. Quick question, how are you posting the pictures, i.e. Via what software, as we know photobucket has gone belly up ?

Hi, welcome! Thank you!
Having seen many photo-dead threads in many other forums, I never trusted photobackety-ish situations and I upload them straight from my disk.
I use my main pc, no other gadget. I first compress them around 300-400KB and then, down left, click Additional Options --> Attach: (Browse) you browse your disk, find pic and if you want a second or a third you click (more attachments).
Underneath, one can see a comment; Maximum attachment size allowed: 1500KB, per post: 8
I know this way I'm wasting precious LAF disk space, I hope soon to find another method, or, create, at last, my own blogsite - armtwisted already by so many friends