[Strv102r]

Replay av detta nya spel följer inom kort.

[Strv102r]

Ur Wikipedia (väl medveten om dess svagheter)

The Battle of Campaldino was a battle between the Guelphs and Ghibellines on 11 June 1289. Mixed bands of pro-papal Guelf forces of Florence and allies, Pistoia, Lucca, Siena and Prato, all loosely commanded by the paid condottiero Amerigo di Narbona with his own professional following, met a Ghibelline force from Arezzo including the perhaps reluctant bishop, Guglielmino degli Ubertini, in the plain of Campaldino, which leads from Pratovecchio to Poppi, part of the Tuscan countryside along the upper Arno called the Casentino. One of the combatants on the Guelph side was Dante Alighieri, twenty-four years old at the time.

Later, in the mid-14th century, Giovanni Villani recorded the long-remembered details— as Florentines remembered them— in his chronicle, though the casus belli he offers are merely conventional "outrages" on the part of Arezzo; the elaborately staged raid and fight led by aristocrats on both sides sounds like stylized gang warfare, though carried out, according to Villani, under the battle standard of the absent Charles, the Angevine King of Naples. The Florentines and their allies had 10,000 undisciplined armed rabble on foot, including light-armed infantry, and crossbowmen, and unmounted lancers, but 1,600 knights and 600 mounted burghrers of Florence,

the best armed and mounted which ever sallied out forth from Florence; and 400 mercenaries, together with the following of the Captain M[esser] Amerigo, in the pay of the Florentines; and of Lucca there were 500 horsemen; and of Prato 40 horsemen and foot soldiers; and of Pistoia, 60 horse and foot; and of Siena, 120 horse; and of Volterra, 40 horse; and of Bologna, their ambassadors with their company; and of Samminiato, and of Sangimignano, and of Colle, men mounted and on foot from each place; and Maghinardo of Susinana, a good and wise captain in war, with his Romagnoli.[1]

The forces were equal as far as the large groups of foot-soldiers were concerned; the mounted knights of the Aretine forces only came to 800, but those were "the flower of the Ghibellines of Tuscany, of the March, and of the Duchy, and of Romagna; and all were men experienced in arms and in war" (Villani), This Arentine force was quickly assembled and came out as word spread that the Guelfs were ravaging the places of Conte Guido Novello, who was podestà of Arezzo and, worse, threatening the fortified place called Bibbiena Civitella.

The scuttlebutt reported by Villani was that a plot had been intercepted at Arezzo, by which the bishop agreed to give over to the Florentines Bibbiena Civitella, and all the villages of his see, in return for a life annuity of 5,000 golden florins a year, guaranteed by the bank of the Cerchi. The plot was uncovered by his nephew Guglielmo de' Pazzi, and they hustled the bishop onto his horse and brought him to the battlefield, where they left him dead among the slain of the battle and its aftermath: Guglielmino de' Pazzi in Valdarno and Buonconte, the son of Guido I da Montefeltro. Ploughing the Campaldino plain used to turn up human remains and bones as recently as eighty years ago [2].

According to Villani, Corso Donati, podestà of Pistoia. though under orders to stand ready in reserve by his personal heroics, shouting "If we lose, I will die in the battle with my fellow citizens; and if we conquer, let him that will, come to us at Pistoia to exact the penalty" charged the Aretine flank and helped break up the lines and win the day for the Guelfs.

The Battle of Campaldino secured the Guelfs in Florence, though internecine fighting among the Whites and the Blacks among the Florentine Guelfs resulted in upsets for city order, and the exile of many, including Dante, a member of the Whites, the faction more opposed to papal power.

[Andreas Lundin]

Dante på ena sidan minsann! Där ser man. Kul kuriosa.

[Vvornth]

Dante på ena sidan minsann! Där ser man. Kul kuriosa.

Komikern? Det bevisar min tes att krig är kul!

[Strv102r]

Gelfarnas slagordning. Lägg märke till att ledarna och sköldbärarenheterna är mindre än övriga.

[Strv102r]

Gibbarnas slagordning.

[Strv102r]

Close up på brickorna. Ledare och sköldbärare är alltså mindre än de underliggande enheterna. Tanken ä väl god men jag undrar om det ändå inte är så att de fortfarande är så stora att skymmer infon på enheten under men så små att de blir svår att plocka upp för att se infon på enheten under. Men jag tycker att det är snyggt.

[Andreas Lundin]

Med pincett klarar man biffen.

[totte30]

Det rycker i mina fingrar för lite "counterclipping"...  Finns det ngn stödgrupp för oss som inte klarar att se "Lodjurstofsar"?  

Välansat före vildvuxet.....

Thomas

[Strv102r]

Jag anade att den senare repliken skulle komma... Har inte haft ork, men behovet är väl solklart.

Själv föredrar jag absolut välansat före vildvuxet. Det gör mot-, eller snarare medspelaren, också...

[Strv102r]

Setup med förtydliganden.

Nov = Novello
Gug= Guglielmino
Paz= Pazzo
Mont= Montefeltro

Don= Donati
Mag= Maghinardo
Man= Mangiatori
Dur= Durfort
Vie= Vieri

[Strv102r]

Det historiska scenariot börjar med att Montefeltro måste anfalla med carica! Men att bara storma rakt fram mot Vieri med båg- och armborstskyttar på båda flankerna enligt den raka pilen tänker jag inte göra. Jag avser anfalla fiendens högra flygel enligt den prickade pilen. Vieri kommer sannolikt att anfalla in i Montefeltros höger flank och då kan Pazzo anfalla in i Vieris vänsterflank enligt den streckade pilen.

[Strv102r]

Montefeltro anfaller enligt plan och får framgång mot fotfolket som skjuter uselt. Däremot misslyckas anfallet mot Vieris mest högra enhet som gör en countercharge. Montefeltro lyckas med continuum och rider då ner de upprivna båg- och armborstskyttarna samt kastar Vieris högra enhet bakåt i stor oordning.

[Strv102r]

Detaljbild.

[Strv102r]

Motståndaren gör inte som jag tänkte... Vieri anfaller rakt ut på fältet men inte ända fram till stridskontakt med Pazzo. Tanken måsta vara att Vieri ska skydda flanken på Durfort som härnäst ska anfalla Montefeltro. Om jag får till en aktiveting på Montefeltro kan jag klämma Vieri med både Pazzo och Montefeltro. Fast Montefeltro riskerar ju då att bli klämd mellan Vieri  och Durfort... Hmm... Spelet har sina finesser...