Grunwald1410

This game simulates the battle of Tannenberg/Grunwald/Zalgiris, between the Teutonic Order under Hochmeister Ulrich von Jungingen, and their Western European Crusader allies, and the Poles under King Wladislaw II Jagiello, and his Bohemian/Moravian/Silesian allies, and the Lithuanians under Grand Duke Vytautas “the Great”, and his Russian and Tatar allies, between the Prussian villages of Tannenberg and Ludwigsdorf, on 15 July 1410. As well as enabling the battle to be replayed as it happened, the game is designed to explore alternative scenarios, such as:

What if the Polish-Lithuanian forces had fought on the left and right, respectively (instead of right and left, respectively)?

What if the opposing armies had deployed totally differently?

The game focuses especially on the different capabilities of the mix of troops that made up the Polish-Lithuanian army - heavy cavalry, light cavalry modelled on the Mongol cavalry, and hordes of infantry very vulnerable to heavy cavalry attack but potentially devastating to cavalry pinned in a melee.

The game is designed for 2 players.

Time Scale: 20 minutes per turn

Ground Scale: ~250x250 metres per hex

Unit Scale: 1 leader with his entourage, or about 1,000 cavalry or 2,000 infantry