The last action of 2020, for my broadcast table with an online player was an Alpian Wars matchup again using the wonderful Blood Axe miniatures of Jeff.
Nate took command of fair Alpia, leaving me to run the vile Stagonians.
We used the terrain generator cards, as created by Grid Based Wargames, and came up with a stream bend, town without walls, fields without walls a woods and a couple of hills. Done in 30 seconds.
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| opening field situation, Stagonia bottom left, Alpia top right |
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| Alpian foote hold a hill and extend into the center of the field |
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| early battle saw Stagonian Knights hit hard |
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| the Alpian foot only just held on ... |
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| while the second line - of Alpian knights become disordered by the fleeing foote |
I had the video recorder going, yet at the moment having troubles getting either images or a time-lapse of the game ... at least I did take some more photos.
It was 'deck' or 'shuffle' four that had the next most interesting events. Each unit and commander has a card in a deck that includes re-loads and a 'turn end' card that starts the 're-shuffle' process ... so no one really knows for sure if they are going to get to move at all or not.
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| Stagonian command |
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| Alpian horse |
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| the Alpian horse were met by some Stagonian horse |
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| on the flank Alpian foote held back Stagonian knights |
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| the right flank was busy with Stagonian foote moving forward ... |
Again a few more 'deck shuffles' happened before I ran the camera.
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| by deck 8 the situation was clear ... fair Alpia was not going to hold the field much longer |
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| Stagonian foote had pressed back Alpian horse in the town |
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| all Alpian commanders were pressed into action to support the foote in holding the line versus the Stagonian Knights |
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| endless volleys were fired |
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| pushing back some Stagonians |
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| though not on the right flank, which stormed the town |
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| a massed Stagonian volley leaving only an Alpian brigadier to hopefully withdraw, as his horse had already withdrawn |
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| it seemed no rally efforts were working any more for the Alpian horse |
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| Alpian commander could not move to help the horse as he was already committed to the foote |
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| the Stagonian High Command were clearly triumphant with the Knights leading the way |
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| Alpian knights just did not manage to get into action without becoming bogged down with their own foote in the way of attack or retreat. |
GOT IT!
Did one more video processing and had the time-lapse of the game come through.
Let me know if you like the video clips or time-lapses from the past few games.
I am curious to know if I want to continue doing the processing.
Cheers
3 comments:
Oh dear. Not again! Still, Alpia shall never give up!
Lol, I never won as Stagonia; it didn't matter what set of rules or the era- Alpia always won.
I didn't listen with sound- is there some explanation during set up before the game gets going?
No commentary on the time lapse video in this game.
I am experimenting with different video parts for each game to see what tells the story better.
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