Simon, our glorious organiser and umpire, was my round 4 game, two desert based armies, fighting in the snows of the Sinai!
Simon's list, somewhat hampered by his lack of generals.
I snuck my Italians through the civitas that I won at Brighton last year! Looking to get them into the left hand rocky ground. My cavalry, after deploying to the right of the town, had swung hard left to try and secure the points of the camels!
Which they closed on quickly. My Italians also hopped across to the rocks.
The two battle lines face off, my superiors and average 5s face down a wall of average and superior pikes, Thracians and Nellies! Eek!
My Triarii are about to be pin cushioned by the Tarentine cavalry - shield cover again?
It's the last game, no point sticking around!
CHARGE!
My cavalry took a wound on the way in, but supported by the Italians, looked forwards to matching it with poor camels!
CRUNCH! That's a lot of foot and elephants there. I was generally down here, so this is a nail biter.
The result of the charge, I lose a base, but the camels are taking red/white dice and suffer badly.
Two black dice, two wounds on my Triarii, 1/36 chance to kill a base. BOOM! Good shooting TeX!
The camels break (2-0) and my cavalry pursue into the Xystophori (that's the last time I try to spell that ), superior, charging lancer, melee experts. In a 4, this won't go well, at all!
In the centre, Simon's pikes start to chew lumps out of my valiant foot! However, I kill a nellie on the first swing, and four warband are taken down!
Ohhh, not a bad result for the charge on the Egyptian lancers!
Or was it! I lose a base, so do the noble knights!
The elephants and the warband break (6-0). Simon sends in spears against the elephants.
Meanwhile, Simon's reserve closes on my somewhat battered Triarii, vainly supported by my Cretans. 8 pikes vs 3 superior spears, this was a death sentence!
My cavalry scatters, (6-2) that was trouble, but my Italians (loose foot) are in rough going, meaning they would be up against the lancers in terrain that suited them.
Three knights pile in, versus 5 auxilia. Eek!
My superior legionaries catch Simon's spears in the rear who had just broken the elephants (6-4).
The spears didn't last long (8-4), then we followed through into the rear of Simon's pikes (who also followed through). The double skull was followed by double skull and a wound, saving the Triarii's bacon, and winning me the game! (15-4)
Simon's list, somewhat hampered by his lack of generals.
I snuck my Italians through the civitas that I won at Brighton last year! Looking to get them into the left hand rocky ground. My cavalry, after deploying to the right of the town, had swung hard left to try and secure the points of the camels!
Which they closed on quickly. My Italians also hopped across to the rocks.
The two battle lines face off, my superiors and average 5s face down a wall of average and superior pikes, Thracians and Nellies! Eek!
My Triarii are about to be pin cushioned by the Tarentine cavalry - shield cover again?
It's the last game, no point sticking around!
CHARGE!
My cavalry took a wound on the way in, but supported by the Italians, looked forwards to matching it with poor camels!
CRUNCH! That's a lot of foot and elephants there. I was generally down here, so this is a nail biter.
The result of the charge, I lose a base, but the camels are taking red/white dice and suffer badly.
Two black dice, two wounds on my Triarii, 1/36 chance to kill a base. BOOM! Good shooting TeX!
The camels break (2-0) and my cavalry pursue into the Xystophori (that's the last time I try to spell that ), superior, charging lancer, melee experts. In a 4, this won't go well, at all!
In the centre, Simon's pikes start to chew lumps out of my valiant foot! However, I kill a nellie on the first swing, and four warband are taken down!
Ohhh, not a bad result for the charge on the Egyptian lancers!
Or was it! I lose a base, so do the noble knights!
The elephants and the warband break (6-0). Simon sends in spears against the elephants.
Meanwhile, Simon's reserve closes on my somewhat battered Triarii, vainly supported by my Cretans. 8 pikes vs 3 superior spears, this was a death sentence!
My cavalry scatters, (6-2) that was trouble, but my Italians (loose foot) are in rough going, meaning they would be up against the lancers in terrain that suited them.
Three knights pile in, versus 5 auxilia. Eek!
My superior legionaries catch Simon's spears in the rear who had just broken the elephants (6-4).
The spears didn't last long (8-4), then we followed through into the rear of Simon's pikes (who also followed through). The double skull was followed by double skull and a wound, saving the Triarii's bacon, and winning me the game! (15-4)
Simon was completely crippled by his lack of command structure, but his force was good. If his pikes had had a bit more luck my average legions would have been steamrollered.
Overall, 40 points for the weekend, and 8th out 16 players. Not a bad result considering I did so badly on the first day. Great weekend, thank you for organising Simon.
The full results
| Player | Army | Enemy TUGs destroyed | Enemy SUGs destroyed | Total Score | Opponent Scores | Rank |
| Simon Elliott | Later Carthaginian, Hannibal in Africa | 25 | 6 | 60 | 29 | 1 |
| Adrian Nash | Mid Republican Roman | 19 | 2 | 50 | 22 | 2 |
| Jason Broomer | Alexandrian Macedonian Expeditionary | 18 | 5 | 48 | 21 | 3 |
| Richard Jeffrey-Cook | Lycian | 16 | 4 | 48 | 35 | 4 |
| Dave Parish | Achmaenid Persian Satrapal | 17 | 2 | 47 | 27 | 5 |
| Ian Newell | Galatian | 18 | 5 | 44 | 50 | 6 |
| Peter Cross | Batavian Revolt | 14 | 0 | 40 | 41 | 7 |
| Will Denham | Mid Republican Roman | 15 | 1 | 40 | 43 | 8 |
| Nigel Emsen | Early Imperial Roman | 15 | 2 | 37 | 51 | 9 |
| Robin Spence | Bosporan | 14 | 3 | 36 | 40 | 10 |
| Jon Skipper | Alexandrian Macedonian | 16 | 0 | 35 | 49 | 11 |
| Bruce Rollett | Late Republican Roman | 12 | 2 | 32 | 35 | 12 |
| Nick Gaukroger | Greco-Bactrian | 12 | 2 | 30 | 36 | 13 |
| James McMeiken | Ancient British: Durotriges | 11 | 3 | 30 | 38 | 14 |
| Stepen Stead | Later Carthaginian in Spain | 9 | 3 | 29 | 34 | 15 |
| Simon Cook | Ptolemaic | 7 | 1 | 17 | 56 | 16 |
Thankfully, I avoided all the top players! ;) But did pip Nigel, again! ;D
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