OT2024 Round 4

less than a week to deadline, please get your matches played and the results in!

Round 4, Game 2, Heilsberg.

Michal W, Allies. 5 banners taken, 35 blocks lost.

Steve T, French. 8 banners taken, 21 blocks lost.

Michal will report the first game. In this one, my French cavalry defeated the Russian cavalry on the French left, then forced some of the Russian infantry into squares that were then slowly ground down by the French grenadiers who were brought up as reserves. This French attack was finally halted by accurate Russian musketry from Lanwiese (score 4-6, with the Russians having 2 unit banners and 2 town banners). The French centre then advanced with elan, occupying an empty town hex and each side losing 1 unit to end the game (5-. Thanks to Michal for two tough games!

Not sure why there's that emoji there, at least on my screen - it should read 5-8!   

Match 1

Jim (Russian) # 5

Joe (French) # 8

Joe started out by doing a nice job of getting his artillery into a strong center position and shooting up my cavalry. We exchanged blows in the center of the map for a while with Joe getting the better of it and eventually overwhelming my right wing, taking a town from my garrison for the final banner.

Match 2

Joe (Russian) # 7

Jim (French) # 8

We started this game but were unable to finish. My French had two of his units in square to severely restrict Joe's card options, and I had a hand full of good cards including 3 Take Command cards and Forward. We called it a game due to time constraints, with a negotiated outcome that seemed fair to both sides, Joe who won the initial game while still acknowledging my strong position in game 2. So 2 points for Joe, 1 for me on banner differential.

Match 1
Viridovilas (Russian)  8
Dawnreader (French)  7

It was tough game with a lot of maneuvers

Match 2
Dawnreader (Russian)  8
Viridovilas (French)  4

Russians got some good cards and dice gods also were on their side.    

Match 1
Soul1st (Russian) 6
Melake (French) 8
 

Match 2
Melake (Russian) 8
Soul1st (french) 6
 

both games won at the end. Congrats to soul1st for a great match.

Russian artillery preventing the French advance.

in the second game initial and continuous cavalry clash, and then ...Artillery...

Steven and I were unable to find a time to play this round.

Match 1

Gileforn (Russian)  1 banners won

Javelinthrower (French) 8 banners won

Extremely lucky game for French. Good cards, reasonably good dice, unreasonably bad dice for the opponent. The only banner scored was a city banner.
Basically the French managed to maneuvre the infantry in a good way for a Force March followed by Bayonet charge, nd since a lot of shooting preceded that, and add to this my luck...

Match 2

Javelinthrower (Russian)  4 banners won

Gileforn (French)  8 banners won

IMO opinion, my luck was not that great this time, but my opponent might disagree In any case, there was a lot of good fighting on the Russians' side, but Gileforn had all the cards for the centre, where French were strong, and continued pushing, while I got left with flank cards, which I didn't know when or how to use, and special cards which also were IMO situational. When on the left French flank the cavalry engaged Russian infantry, two cards were wasted on squares, fatally limiting Russian pool of options. Eventually the units also bled dry and even cities were lost. Alas. Very consistent fighting and good tactics on the French part.

    

Michal W, French. 8 banners taken, 32 blocks lost.

Steve T, Allies. 5 banners taken, 40 blocks lost
   

Sorry for the late response.

In Round 4 Azzy_23 defeated gdnuke in both of the games. 3 points for Azzy_23 and 0 points for gdnuke in Round 4.