Battle Report

Setting the Scene

I had a real ding dong of a battle against Shaun Dummond's Turkish horse archer army a fortnight ago.

My opponent had:
- 5 BGs of cavalry armoured lancers superior
- 4 BGs of light foot
- 6 BGs of light horse.

My army list is at http://www.slitherine.com/forum ...

Doctrine for a Late Republic Roman Army Without Allies

Part One: The purpose of this document

This document analyses the strengths and weakness of Late Republican Roman Army (LRRA) and uses the results to:
• make suggestions as to how each troop type in a LRRA should be used and how this fits ...

david53 wrote:

seansmith wrote:
The Gladius is the best counter for a shooty army

Bravely stated but fives arn't that rare either

I don't understand what you are inferring

sadista wrote:Your first game looks to be Principate Roman played by Mark Holland

Yes it was, thank you.

You don't say what the first army you faced actually was.

Some version of late Roman army. I think it was Dominant Roman.


it seems you only fought one opponent with much in the way of shooters and no 'proper' knight army. Therefore you should probably
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david53 wrote:Just wondered when you charged the LH with your LF were they in the open.

I had this silly idea that the LF could pin LH and that this would allow my medium foot come up wipe out his LH.

11. Drop all them crappy barbarian troops, Cav, and Elephants and take more legions!!!!!!!!!

:wink: :lol: :lol:

The medium foot did a great job in all of the battles.

In the first battle they allowed take the brush in the centre quickly, which allowed me to gain superiority on the left flank ...

Here is the link to my battle reports from Natcon 2010, where I used this army. As you will see, I didn't go very well. This, however, had nothing to do with the composition of the army. It was, sadly, all due to how I used it.

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Regards

Sean

Here are my battle reports for Natcon 2010.

I have posted photos for each battle in separate messages below.

I used a Late Republican Roman Army. My army list is at http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15915.

The doctrine that I created for the army is at http://www.slitherine.com ...

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With a drilled, well behaved army like Romans? Yes of course there will be. And you'll need it. "Line the legions up and walk towards the enemy" will work against some players for a while. But fairly soon opponents will delay in the centre and go for the flanks, or hit it on the nose with lancers ...

Sadly what happens if i bring up my Lancer Superior Cavalry up to a mm away from your Cavalry in my turn now your pinned. In my next turn i charge being so close I have a good chance of catching you in the rear if you evade.

This assumes, among other things, that:
1) I wouldn't make my elephants ...

A LRR army is all about legionaries. It looks to me like to chose a mixed-arms tournament army and added in some legionaries because you had to.

Caesar would be so ashamed.

I think you are being a bit melodramatic :wink:

Historically Roman’s armies made extensive use of allies. Scipio had ...

Thank you for all the feed back, it is much appreciated.

A quick response to some of the points raised.

Elephants - I am taking the elephants because they help legionaries by disrupting knights, after several nasty experiences with knights, and I also use them to bolster a flank in conjunction ...