ADLG Medieval

A rare Saturday game saw Ian and myself return to a much admired rule set - ADLG (we're still using V3.) It was medievals with Venetian Condotta against a German army - probably representing something in the 14th century. 

The above image shows the battlefield littered with steep hills, brush and woods. The Venetians had won initiative (they had a strategist and 4 light horse.) Their plan was to flank march while filling the central area of the table with terrain to make deployment hard for the Germans. The Venetians had one command of just light troops to hold up the heavier Germans. 

A little late in the game but this image shows a sneaky single base of German light horse who whipped around the Venetian right flank. Their English longbow turned to pour volleys into these foolhardy troops quickly dispersing them. 

The Germans - squeezed for good deployment space - were forced to come on in lines. Here XB armed horse form the front line with knight following up. A war wagon with a medium gun is just behind them. 

The Venetians awaited this as their flank marsh took around 4 turns to show up. As you can see, German heavy spear plodded along behind the XB and war wagon. 

These two images show the centre and far side of the table. Here Venetian light troops just held up the Germans. They showered them with crossbow bolts forcing them to come forward. But this meant entering difficult terrain. 

Dismounted German knights tried unsuccessfully to chase down stradiots and light foot. 

Meanwhile, 4 bases of Venetian knight had slammed into the German flank - the flank march had arrived. Caught by this - and the sudden advance of the Venetian heavy halberdiers and pike - the German knights were cut up. A single base of Venetian medium XB flanked the spear trying to save the day. 

The Venetians had suffered many hits but had demolished the German left. All but one knight and cavalry unit was cut down. Generals were lost and the halberd foot had smashed into the LMI XB. 

Meanwhile, the German right still trudged up and down those steep Italians hills ... and all they had to show was taking one base of LI XB. In the background some Hungarians had ridden around the German and were speeding for their camp. Not a good day to be in the German army. 

The plan had worked very well of the Venetians.