Thursday 18 August 2016

El Cid AAR

Tonight we had our first game of El Cid using Hail Ceaser. I did a bit of extra painting to ensure we had enough figures, in particular the man himself needed to be finished.


Spanish standard bearer from Gripping beast.





El Cid campeador, again Gripping Beast character figure, love the cloak.

The forces were fairly even but the Christians had much more heavy Cavalry whilst the Moors had an abundance of light cavalry.


The Moors had 5 units of light javelin armed cavalry and one of horse archers, plus 3 units of mercenary knights, add this to five units of medium foot an 3 units of archers.


The Christians had 5 units of heavy knights and two of light javelin armed cavalry plus 5 units of heavy foot and 2 of medium foot and three units of crossbows plus one of slingers.


The Christians had the edge in quality and numbers but the Moors had a more flexible force.






The Moors tried to use their light cavalry to get behind the Christians on each flank, whilst the Christians wanted to hold off the Moorish light horse and force a decision with their infantry in the middle. The Moors had wisely kept El Cids mercenaries in the middle to bolster their foot.


The Moorish Horse drove off the Christian light cavalry on the right flank and pushed back the crossbows, they were however unable to make any headway on the left against a force of Christian Knights.


Meanwhile in the middle the battle swung back and forth with the main foot forces and the remaining Christian Knights taking on El Cids Merenaries.






After loosing a unit of Mercenary horse and Christian foot things were evenly balanced as the night drew to a close, the Moors were able to hold the Christians on the wings and in the last Melee of the night El Cid destroyed a unit of Christian Knights and followed up to the remaining unit punching through in the centre to achieve a hard fought victory.




A fun first outing for the Spanish forces ad a very enjoyable game. Thanks Andy, Chris C, Chris F, and Mark.


Partizan on Sunday. See some of you there I hope on our Bagamayo game.



16 comments:

  1. Wonderful and dynamic figures!

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  2. excellent looking game and some superb figures. Hope to see you on Sunday - I'm there with the Grimsby wargames Society and a naval game.

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    1. Keep an eye out for you Paul, if I don't see you please say hello game should be obvious, lots of water with WW1 ships in 28mm.

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  3. Where's the game at Roger, don't recognise the locality

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  4. Looks great, to bad about some of the pictures.

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    1. Engel I know sorry, better pictures netx time promise!

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  5. Hi Roger its Andy. I had a great game last night my first hail caesar game and picked it up quickly . Great figures great gamers. See you at Partizan sunday (touch wood)

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    1. Glad you enjoyed it Andy see you on Sunday at Partizan.

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  6. Great looking game Roger. I love your bearer and El Cid. Both figures looks really amazing, specially El Cid, you can even see that everything is moving there (running horse, the capote etc.), outstanding job!

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    1. Thank you so much Bartek, the El Cid figure is a great one from Gripping beats ad I have been looking forward to painting it for a while. The bearer is also Gripping beast from their older figures but still very nice I think.

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  7. I enjoyed browsing around your blog, what size table are you mostly using?

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    1. Welcome Norm. The El Cid game was at our local East Leeds club on 6 feet by 12 feet I think. The Carlist and Russian Civil War games are both from wargaming Chum Chris Flowers table which I think is 8 feet by 14 feet.

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  8. El Cid game was on a mere 8' x 4' :-)
    Cheers
    Chris

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    1. Was it wow, felt much larger, cheers Chris.

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