Portions of the army might meet and engage as the two main forces attempt to locate each other. However, another way to look at it is that the armies haven’t really met yet. We could interpret this as the skirmishing taking place over perhaps an hour, during a battle that happens at some point around this date.
In the above screenshot, as an example, the battle view shows the armies engaged in skirmishing, as they have been for a number of days. In other words, I would interpret the real time battle screen as some combination of real time and artificially-expanded time. During that time, small engagements, attrition, and other losses are surely taking place. The forces have to concentrate and jockey for favorable ground. Secondly, the maneuvering of two armies in close proximity to each other might take days or even weeks. First of all, the display should be seen as a window on a battle that might take the better part of a day, but it is displayed for the player over (let’s say) a week of real time. Instead, I think the interpretation is two-fold. Obviously, though, the strategic clock and the battle clock can’t quite align and, just as obviously, the use of a single clock in both cases has to be some kind of abstraction – one can’t believe that a Medieval infantry battle is lasting a week or more. As the game’s calendar advances, the tactical battles also are displayed in real time with various battlefield maneuvers calculated for both the AI and the player. To delve further into the outcome of this imaginary battle, I will return to what might be simulated by the battle tactics in Crusader Kings. That is there is no indication that the King’s soldiers are in one wing and Alfred’s in another.
Upon joining together, it was Dorset’s commanders, presumably in a rare triumph of meritocracy over politics, who were put in command of the combined armies. The arrival of the reinforcements was only a few days behind the Vikings. After a bit of maneuvering, the forces meet at the Battle of Cirencester.įortunately for the future of Wessex, my armies were assembling and on their way to Gloucester even as the Viking armies were.
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