LORDS OF THE REALM II: CAL'S GREAT BATTLES

Lords of the Realm is a war game set in the middle ages. The game has two parts: marching around on the map and the battles. Marching around is turn-based, but the battles are in real-time. The troops range from worthless peasants to armored knights. The stragedy of a battle is fairly simple: line up your swordmen and pikemen in front of your archers and try to get your fast knights and macemen into their archers. The terrain of the battles varies from rivers and bridges to wide open fields to densly wooded forests. There are also castle seiges and you get catapults and battering rams for those skirmishes. The stragedy of marching on the map is even easier, counquer the counties closest to you until you have them all.
The hardest part of the game is resource management. You only have so many people to farm, cut wood, mine stone and iron and build your weapons and castles. And they all have to eat. Your land can be used for raising cattle or growing wheat. Wheat can be stored; meat and dairy products cannot. If your subjects get unhappy, they may riot. You can buy them ale from the merchant which temporarily lifts their spirits. Here are some of the scores of my battles.

Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
Italy
Autumn
1275
Cal
187
-85
102
Knight
480
-480
0
Most of Knight's army were lowly peasants;
Starting troops ratio: 2.5 to 1 in favor of Knight;
Kill ratio: 5.6 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
Italy
Summer
1276
Cal
102
-102
0
Knight
408
-266
142
Starting troops ratio: 4 to 1 in favor of Knight;
Kill ratio: 2.6 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
Ireland
Autumn
1277
Cal
320
-115
205
Knight
372
-372
0
Knight's army was macemen and peasants
Starting troops ratio: 1.2 to 1 in favor of Knight;
Kill ratio: 3.2 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
Ireland
Winter
1280
Cal
110
-71
39
Knight
360
-360
0
Knight's army was most peasants
Starting troops ratio: 3.3 to 1 in favor of Knight;
Kill ratio: 5.1 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
Ireland
Winter
1280
Cal
358
-63
295
Baron
460
-460
0
Baron's army was mostly peasants
Starting troops ratio: 1.3 to 1 in favor of Baron;
Kill ratio: 7.3 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
Ireland
Autumn
1280
Cal
170
-79
91
Knight
392
-392
0
Starting troops ratio: 2.3 to 1 in favor of Knight;
Kill ratio: 5.0 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Spring
1269
Cal
175
-65
110
Yorkshire Co.
408
-408
0
Yorkshire County's army was 100 archers and many peasants
Starting troops ratio: 2.3 to 1 in favor of Yorkshire County;
Kill ratio: 6.3 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Summer
1271
Cal
340
-102
238
Knight
477
-477
0
Knight's army 120 swordsmen and many peasants
Starting troops ratio: 1.4 to 1 in favor of Knight;
Kill ratio: 4.7 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Spring
1272
Cal
200
-83
117
Knight
392
-392
0
Three-fourths of Knight's army was peasants
Starting troops ratio: 2.0 to 1 in favor of Knight;
Kill ratio: 4.7 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Autumn
1273
Cal
252
-107
145
Knight
413
-413
0
Two-thirds of Knight's army was peasants
Starting troops ratio: 1.6 to 1 in favor of Knight;
Kill ratio: 3.9 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Autumn
1274
Cal
79
-79
0
Baron
359
-80
279
Strong Baron army: 250 archers, 50 knights
Starting troops ratio: 4.5 to 1 in favor of Baron;
Kill ratio: even, 1 to 1


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Summer
1277
Cal
150
-43
107
Baron
545
-545
0
Baron's army: 30 archers, 515 peasants
Cal's army: 150 macemen mercenaries
Starting troops ratio: 3.6 to 1 in favor of Baron;
Kill ratio: 12.7 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Winter
1278
Cal
107
-107
0
Bishop
353
-274
79
Bishop's army: 196 archers, 142 peasants
Cal's army: 107 macemen mercenaries
Starting troops ratio: 3.3 to 1 in favor of Bishop;
Kill ratio: 2.6 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Summer
1280
Cal
50
-50
0
Bishop
415
-88
327
Bishop had very tough army, all pikemen and archers
Starting troops ratio: 8.3 to 1 in favor of Bishop;
Kill ratio: 1.8 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Autumn
1280
Cal
154
-154
0
Bishop
327
-263
64
Bishop had tough army: 176 archers, 151 pikemen
Starting troops ratio: 2.1 to 1 in favor of Bishop;
Kill ratio: 1.7 to 1 in favor of Cal


Place
and
Date:
Cal's army:
losses:
survived:
Enemy noble:
losses:
survived:
Notes:
England
Winter
1281
Cal
253
-253
0
Countess
865
-683
182
Enemy was mostly peasants with
archers and swordsmen
Starting troops ratio: 3.4 to 1 in favor of Countess;
Kill ratio: 2.7 to 1 in favor of Cal
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