Doomed armies - which one's yours?

[FierceKitty]

Of course a wargame tries to give all players a fair chance with whatever armies they're using, or there would be little fun and few players. But which is the army that usually has you worried when you lead it into battle, and why?

For me it's currently the Ava Burmese, who haven't won a battle yet. It's partly that the Chinese have them overwhelmingly outgunned, and the Indians have far better cavalry. Short of getting another SE Asian force, I'm not sure of the solution, but that's not the topic of debate here.

[Sandinista]

My late medieval Scots usually fail when I play them against the English, limited options with spearmen against bill & bow

Cheers
Ian

[Leman]

My FPW French are usually subjected to an artillery pounding that tends to knock the stuffing out of them. They do better against Austrians.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I had a 'never-victorious DAK' army.
Sold them after they won.

[Leman]

A true Brit! Always support the underdog.

[fsn]

I had a Greek hoplite army that couldn't withstand an arrow storm. They didn't fight in the shade, they ran for the hills.

[FierceKitty]

I had a Greek hoplite army that couldn't withstand an arrow storm. They didn't fight in the shade, they ran for the hills.

Mine get into trouble with little cavalry forces driving off their support and turning their flanks.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello FK

This is a hard question because I've always tended to Doomed armies and it's  hard to select a particular one. Memorable debacles include a Hun army that had a human avalanche and decided it would be better to be somewhere else - in turn 2!! Chinese cataphracts beaten by peasant archers taking the general and guard spears out . Hindu Indian army that was so unlucky it could get beaten up by the scenery. All disasters but giving me chuckles then and now

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[FierceKitty]

I remember the "Night of Terror" scenario game where the Turkish players were so confused by Dracula's raid that the Janissaries shot up and broke the Asian Sipahis. Dracula still lost, but only because he couldn't find Eva Green the sultan.

[Steve J]

Austrians in the Seven Years War & Seven Weeks War. Maybe I should play them in a conflict without 'Seven' in it...

[FierceKitty]

My SYW Austrians do OK. I give 'em a few more HC regiments.

[pierre the shy]

I've always been drawn to Charles the Bold and the Burgundian armies of C14-15.....the "One True Army" or OTA  

Charles really was doomed when he decided that he could take on the Swiss Confederation, with third time unlucky for him at the battle of Nancy in 1477 when he was killed. I have the OTA in both 15mm and 25mm, played a lot of DBM with them in the 90's and even won a few games with them

I got my handle of Pierre the Shy from a long running DBM campaign that the local club ran. I started off right next to the Swiss player (who was a very good DBM player and nice bloke - he won the NZ DBM national title more than once) so immediately approached him for an aliiance which he was happy to agree to. We all had to come up with suitable names for our leaders so rather than being called Pierre the Bold, Bruce (the Swiss player) thought Pierre the Shy was more in line with my nature    

[Subedai]

I had two -a Goblin Army for my one and only foray into GW and an Airfix Ancient British army. The first took on an Easterner army in a club league game and got bladdered before reaching the enemy because they had longbows (Samurai equivalent) and I only had short bows with half the range. Coupled with the fact that he could advance out of cover, shoot and then retire back into cover in the same move. Lost half my army on approach. They went straight onto the next b&b.

The Ancient British fought one disappointing battle before they went back into their boxes. My friend was using an Assyrian army and I decided that as most of my troops were LMI (showing my age) I would have a line of hills in front of his army. Thundered up the hills with my four or five and rolled to charge down the other side. The first warband decided that this wasn't a good idea and routed followed in succession by the others. At the end of the third turn I was left with a single cavalry unit, a skirmisher unit and my chariots. Everything else was running from the hills.

MickS

[FierceKitty]

The Assyrians must have been undead anyway.

[Ithoriel]

Can't think of any of my armies that fit the bill, they're all pretty much "you win some, you lose some."