"By Fire & Sword Capture the crossing 9/5/13 AAR" Topic

After the last couple of battles a bunch of errors were pointed out in the way we had played. I took the opportunity to read through the rules, carefully and twice, before the next game took place. I hadn't actually had the time to do that since I bought the English version at Salute, and there were some things in the English version that are a bit different and also better explained. I also double checked with "Kadrinazi" and "MiSiO" of the By Fire & Sword forum on a few things so that I was fully prepared.

So – since there was a holiday here in Sweden this Thursday, Andreas , Fredric and I went down to the club to play some more by Fire & Sword. This time Fredric was trying out the game for the first time, using Swedes, I kept to the Polish force.

Armies were again the same as in previous games since I figured we could play with them one last time before changing configuration, so:

The Polish 14 point Skirmish force was:

Colonel with 4 command points
Rotamaster with 1 command point

6 bases of Pancerni
3 bases of Pancerni with spears
9 bases cossack style cavalry
4 bases Volunteers
6 bases Polish dragoons

The Swedish 12 point Skirmish force was:

Colonel with 4 command points
Major with 1 command point

4 Bases of Mercenary Reiters
4 Bases of Mercenary Reiter Veterans (armored reiter models but played without armor)
8 Bases of New Type Infantry
2 Light regimental guns

The scenario ended up being River Crossing (I really need to build some nice obstacles which the weaker player can fortify the bridge with btw). We rolled a single additional affect, and one of my cossack style banners ended up Delayed.

I put my Pancerni cavalry with spears on the task of making a Flanking Maneuver and to appear on turn 3 at the earliest. Since last time we played I was notified that I had missed the "Swimming" special rules for my Polish force, which means that any cavalry with armor of 3 or less could ford rivers and treat it as difficult terrain. That actually made my force a lot more flexible in the way I could approach the enemy.

I had also been corrected about the way Polish cavalry is handled in the field, so as you will see a lot of units will ride around in Open Order as they approach the enemy and close ranks as they charge into contact.

Check the full AAR over at my blog:
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Looking good, we are planning to sit down and run through the rules in the near future,

Tally Ho!

Great AAR as always. Seems like a lot of your games are really close which makes me think the army lists and rules are well balanced with no super units/armies. Can't wait for the English version to be available.

Lists, scenarios and effects all work together very well to create balance within the game :-)

Very nice presentation, thanks.
Now that DBR is going through a DBMM-based revision, I'm thinking about a new set of rules for the Renaissance era. Can anybody comment on comparing DBR with these new rules.?

Are they available in English somewhere?

Great as always, but I'd like it more if the Poles win!