Theres topic like "Battle Strategy Club", "Mordernized Fighting" (or something along those lines), so I'm gonna make one with Medieval Battle Strategy scenarios. They'll be 10 ranks. 1.recruit 2.private 3.1st class private 4.corporal 5.junior officer 6.officer 7.senior officer 8.lieutenant 9.captain 10.general
Every day or so I'll make a MEDIEVAL based fighting, some ideas from my head and others from t.v. shows. If you want to get ranked (you'll get ranked out of intelligent replies not quantity of replies), ask to join the club on my profile, you can reply without being in the club just not promoted, and lastly you start off as a recruit.Senior officer + can make scenarios all others created are NOT official, and shouldn't be responded to unless I say it's ok.
Rules: 1.No flamming 2.No spamming 3.No trolling 4.No name calling ect... You see where I'm going with this.
Honestly I don't care if theres no replies and no one wants to join.
1st Scenario Your troops.
You have 15 eleaphants,3000 heavy calvry, and 1500 light calvry, no archers, light infantry which consists of bodyplate, spear, light circular shield, and helmet, of about 5000, heavy infantry which consists of you being completly naked save for a two hander, and you have 1500 of them.
Enemy troops 10 000 foot soldiers and no horsemen whats so ever, This is a large tribe not an army there undisicplined, very little training, but battle experienced.
This is the most important part of the scenario, your army is seperated by a swift river (not swift enough to drown you or bring you down river). Your the invaders not defenders and you have 7 days till reinforcements comes to reinforce the enemy tribe. The reinforcements or disicplined army trained, and they contain 50 000 men overall, and 10 000 horsemen.
Lastly you start with enough boats to get all your infantry, calvry across, also your boats cannot take your elephants across and finally you must get your elephants across the river. This scenario is passable.
HINT you'll get slaughtered if your attack takes more than 7 days, and you'll get slaughtered if you try a crossing the river on boat directly in front of the enemy tribe.
You need to give a detailed description of terrain when you make scenarios, as most military tactics at this time require information on the terrain.
Ok, I'll try to do this better as I get along.
Terrain: Woods (trees are pretty lighlt wooded) No wind Woods are at it's dry season 12:00pm
Note, this all depends on several things: the tribesmen are totally inexperienced, and don't have any counter-cavalry measures. It also needs the terrain not to be too heavily wooded, as then my cavalry would get bogged down.
This is an enemy tribe you wont know if they have any counter calvalry measures.
As I said before in my decription of the enemy is undisiciplined, and doesn't really train to much with other tribe members just alone. I already said the tribesmen are experienced in battle so it would probably work drawing all of them away if you set fire to there camp. I don't suggest making bridges in the middle of a battle because eventually the chieftain will take some of his men back to the river seeing as how bridges take a while to make. You could send all your current infantry to attack simaltaneously with the already made boats though that way you have a greater chance to win in the battle.
Scenario passed with heavy casualties. 1250 heavy infantry left, 300 light infantry, most of your horsemen survived:2000 heavy calvalry and 950 light calvalry. 12 elaphants killed.
The reason your infantry suffered so much is because the enemy came back in the middle of the process to get all your men across, because you built a bridge which'll take a while to make.
Sending all my infantry simaltaneously is, pardon my French, fluffing stupid
How do you expect to win by sending 1000 infantry at a time when they have 10 000?
And why would they come back?
Because they'll eventually remember you have 6500 infantry in all.
(How did I lose the elephants? They're not invincible, but would you actually fight a 12 foot tall, rearing, trumpeting beast squishing your allies like silly putty? They're terror weapons.)
They would eventually take them down with spears, and arrows right? I'm thinking the tribe would concentrate their spear and arrow attack on them.
[/quote]You would be very successful if you sent your infantry in boats as soon as you see the tribesmen retreating, the reason this is is because if you build a bridge who knows how long that'll take maybe a few hours even if it is a light bridge.
Heres what I would do: Late at night under cover of darkness send my calvalry down river, make them cross over, circle inbehind the enemy camp, wait till midday to set fire to the enemy camp and create alot of noise. Then send all my infantry across as soon as the tribesman started running to their camp. Seeing as how my army in all that's attacking their camp has 11 000 troops that are my trained and disicplined I would for sure win with low casualties.Next I'll build a light bridge for my eleaphants seeing as how the tribesmen are defeated now.
Next Scenario
Location: -Somewhere in Africa -Near a major town (with a little village a couple miles away from it -Theres hills behind the major town, beside the villages, and behind the village, other than that it's a flatland -The major village is like a maze
Time of day 9:00pm
Temperature 35 degrees celsius
Enemy Details The enemy is a proud people. Yousent scouts into the major town to see how much troops they had but they got ambushed and most of your scouts died, a few came back to till you NUMBERS MEAN NOTHING and that you'll get slaughtered if you send your troops directly into the major town. You also know how much troops the enemy has, but they don't have a clue how much of an army you have.The enemy is a HIGHLY trained and disiciplines group. There leader is a hothead is is unused to commandership
Your troops: 10 000 heavy calvalry, 3 000 light calvalry, 5 000 light infantry (which consists of a short sword, bodyplate, full helm, and shield), lastly 2 500 heavy infantry (which are completly naked men that have only a two handed weapon.
Enemy troops: 10 000 light infantry (which consists of leather armors, a shield and a shortsword)
How do you defeat the enemy?
HINT The enemy can deat up to 3 times there number in their major town.Lastly your horsemen (all of them) are elitely trained.
I'll make a new scenario anyone can reoky to my last one.
New Scenario: Your invading an enemy castle it's pretty large. It's back side is surrounded by a mountain (you can't attack from behind the mountain is unaccessible), and it's surrounded by two rivers on the side.You can attack it from the front but there a little over 1km of open land to cross before you reach the enemy.
Details: No wind Mild temperature 5 degrees celcuis flat land with NO COVER what's so ever
Enemy: 25k archers 10k pikeman 35k swordsman (all of them are armoured with shield, bodyplate, platelgs, fullhelm, gauntlets, longsowrds, shortswords, maces, ect...) 50k horsemen Everyones elite
Castle Fortifications: -Cauldrons of oil all along the walls -catapaults on the walls (all along them)
Your siege stuff: -50 Catapaults -100 Battering rams - 25 Siege towers -Lots of ropes, grappels and ladders, shovels (you'll never run out)
Your army 500 000 swordsman 10 000 archers (useless for shooting at wall)
If I forgot anything I'll put it up latter, have fun I'll give this scenario 1 month! Cuz it'll be hard.
No not yet I didn't. I didn't see you post that I must've afk when you wrote that.
I don't think the enemy would retailiate though they have no reason to really. They could just attack when your all asleep I doubt it'd be when your expecting or wanting it to happen. I also don't think there stupid enough to do that (chase you up the mountain).
So your saying an army which is in medieval times SWORN to protect its people wouldn't go and liberate the captured village?
I medieval times most rulers were dictators that do what they want and when they want your talking about present times of how the army is sworn to protect the people. Trust in medieval times not much kings gives a dung about the people.
And also in medieval times practically everybody tries to chase the enemies army even up hills and mountains thus I assumed these people would too.... my bad :P
