OT2024 Round 4

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.