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Brighton et Gloriam, MeG Tournement. 10000 points, the intro!

This last weekend in January saw the first MeG competition at the Dice Saloon in Brighton. Great venue, well worth a visit if you ever end up down there. A well stocked store, with plenty of good rooms for many games in their library, good food and drink, and also a video game area too. It was a popular set up, very friendly. Top all round. Sixteen of us had entered, and there was a fair mix of armies. Unfortunately, a shelving disaster had knocked out one player already, so Simon Cook our glorious umpire and organiser had to bravely step up and play with his Ptolemaics. Ade Nash with his Mid Republican Romans is also missing off this list too. My list, it may be rewritten when I get time, effort, or motivation... The draw was published while I was getting run over by Mark's Romans on Thursday night (Ade would play Simon round 1), and what do you know, my old sparring partner, rival, nemesis and friend, Nigel was my first opponent!  Seeing as I was list check...

Brighton et Gloriam MeG 500BC-200AD Game 1 vs Nigel & Imperial Romans

Fighting Nigel's list was going to be hard, two Praetorian cohorts and the rest as superior legionarii, yurk! Scouting, well, that's not bad, 80% of 9 units please Nigel! (9/100x80=7.2, rounds up to 8, useful) It's a bleached and burnt desert out there!  Deployment saw Nigel deploying strongly in the centre, which I had to deal with, plus two units of Auxilia, off shot left, so will be talked about later! My plan was to hold back until I could scope Nigel's plan. Nigel mid deal... Not bad cards... Actually, I don't do sitting back. On the left is my two Italian infantry (an average 6 and a superior 4) faces off vs 12 average auxilia of Nigel's. In the centre, his mass of legionarii advance, to the right of the water feature Nigel's cavalry 6 (superior, no melee expert) advances on my cavalry (average, melee expert), he will be up on impact, and then we will be even in melee. Nigel closes with the auxilia, my first holding action as...