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[Garokan]

Division 1
Garokan Arab Ummayyad defeats Nosferatu German + French 62-47
Thanks for the match

[cnzmur]

Division 3

cnzmur (Egyptian) defeats sunnyboy (Assyrian) 66-35

The masses of Egyptian light chariots swept round the right pulling well ahead on points, but never quite managed to get a 25% difference, with the Assyrian foot in the centre breaking through, and holding on to the bitter end.

[cnzmur]

Division C

cnzmur (Scots-Irish) defeats wzfcns 57-31

Good game. The Scots-Irish managed to surround and overwhelm the Roman heavy foot and cavalry fairly successfully (Scots-Irish foot are surprisingly resilient against cavalry given their price), but then ran into some trouble with a force of Auxilia Palatina hidden in the woods on the Roman left who could beat them at their own game. Managed to keep the majority of my forces focussed where they were doing well, and got the win.

[klayeckles]

klayeckles (pyrrhic+sam) defeats Gdod (spartan+rom) 66 to 49

a swirling epic where pyrrhus used his greater numbers to stretch the well trained spartans and romans enough to find a few cracks and get a few stray cav to flank the phalynx.

[ThatUglyGuy]

Division C

ThatUglyGuy (Georgians) defeats rockmanbob123 (Swiss) 60-25.

[Trogdor666]

Division 2

Trogdor666 Egyptian 1149 defeats Bagatrix1805 Philistine 800-600 43-11

[vakarr]

DIVISION C

vakarr (Thracian Roman client with Roman ally) defeats kostia (Byzantine) 62-35

The Byzantine army outclassed and outnumbered mine in the cavalry forces. Their foot was pretty good, too. I decided to try releasing the drones on them - taking every possible light horse (and cavalry) unit, including lots of javelin light horse. This didn't seem to be very successful to begin with. The Byzantine right flank did lots of damage to my left flank cavalry but my cavalry stayed in the game long enough to keep the Byzantine cavalry from interfering with what was happening on the other flank. On that flank, my drones took a beating but when the infantry lines closed, my only warband unit managed to hit the flank of the Byzantine infantry, then pursue onto the flank of two others, all in the same turn. Pretty soon the score was 42- 21 in my favour, but one of the Byzantine infantry units rallied, the Byzantine cavalry charged, and it was a struggle to the finish, with enough drones surviving to keep annoying the enemy in concert with the ability of the rhomphia men to survive cavalry charges, and charge back. I had some luck with the light artillery, being able to disrupt enemy units with three shots from various units, as long as one was the artillery. A hard struggle that often seemed like it would be a Byzantine win.

[random27]

Division 1

random27 Syro-Canaanite 1207-1100 BC w/ Egyptian
defeats
Karvon Babylonian 890-729BC

61-48

Thanks for the game

[ThatUglyGuy]

Division C

ThatUglyGuy (Georgians) defeats KossTia (Polish) 60-41.

[Nosy_Rat]

Division A

Nosy_Rat (Lombard) defeats markleslie (Byzantine) 42-16

[dragmio]

Division 3
A victory for dragmio Berber Hafsid 1269-1319
against rockmanbob123 Italian (ghibeline) 1200 - 1319
Result: 60 - 52

Mio

[ianiow]

Div A

ianiow (Minoan) defeated Triarii (Hebrew) 62 vs 32

The Hebrew storm god did his commander no favours in this battle. Oh how the mighty have fallen! Cheers for the game Mike.

[Chris Townsend]

Division 3

Chris Townsend's Egyptians 945 defeat indibil's Philistines with Egyptian allies 63 to 54.

On one of those battlefields that looks open, but really has quite a bit of terrain, the Egyptians split their infantry between two field systems, with a column of chariots and cavalry in the middle, and light chariot screens on each flank. The light chariots got to a small hill in the centre first, but were quickly pushed off by a strong infantry force (mostly Gibborim and foot guards), but not before Egyptian light archers seized a nearby rough, a position they held for the rest of the battle. The chariot charge did also allow the early cavalry to advance through the infantry and massed archer checkerboard. Together with the unopposed right flank light chariots, this eventually proved devastating to the Philistine left. Meanwhile their heavy chariots, eventually supported by the heavy infantry, fought their way through the obstacles defended by the Egyptian guard, supported by Libyans. Needless to say, the Philistine heavy troops did eventually prevail, but not before taking some casualties, partly because of continuing volleys from light archers and chariots that were difficult to pin down. In the end, both left flanks were essentially destroyed, and it was the ability of the Egyptian right to reorganize and make a final impact that carried the day in this close fought battle.

A GG, well played.

[vakarr]

DIVISION C

Vakarr (Thracian Roman client with Roman allies) defeats Asterix_von_TWC (Franks) 48-10

The terrain featured a non-disordering stream across the battlefield with a valley on my left flank and a wood on my right flank. On the opposite side of the stream, on top of the hills, there was a deep wood separated by a gully. The high ground in front of the Franks' left flank was open, but their left flank featured more woods and rough ground on the top of their hills. Fortunately for me, the Franks didn't reject the terrain. However, on the first turn, the Franks hid their units in the woods on their side, and I couldn't see any enemies at all!!! Considering that the Franks had no medium infantry, and most of their army was totally unsuited to difficult terrain, that was surprising.

I formed up on my side of the valley and filled the gap between my hill and the woods with heavy infantry. For the first time, I only took one light horse unit, and fielded every heavy infantry unit possible, even the raw legionaries. I waited for the Franks to show themselves, then sent forth my light infantry. The Frankish light infantry came out, and actually outnumbered me as well as being higher than me, and got the best of the initial engagements, but as I retreated I saw that only a few of the Frankish heavy infantry were facing me on my left flank. The rest of the Frankish army was still hiding in the woods, but when they came out, it became apparent that the Frankish left flank was very weak, so I advanced onto their hill and took it in flank. The Frankish cavalry managed to run all the way around the wood guarding my right flank, but I was able to stop them from getting into my rear long enough for that not to matter. The Frankish heavy infantry took a long time to get from their woods at the back of their line to my line of heavy infantry. By the time they did so, I had wiped out the entire Frankish right flank. In the clash of the heavy infantry, the Franks didn't do very well, but did break through my line. Before they could exploit that breakthrough (and the Frankish cavalry could hit me from the rear) , the troops that had defeated the Frankish right flank had arrived, and my only warband unit did another spectacular pursuit, smashing three units in a row in the flank and routing two of them, game over. Lucky for me the Franks chose to defend the right side of their battlefield, if they had only deployed on their left I would have had to attack the warbands uphill in open terrain. For me, the outcome was always in doubt as he had so many more cavalry and my medium foot are likely to lose badly if they charge heavy foot warbands frontally.

[principesromanes]

Division 2

principesromanes (Sicilian 1194-1199 AD) defeats ulysisgrunt (Low Countries 1275-1319 AD) 43-9

The Sicilian army brought a large contingent of bowmen and a few crossbowmen to occupy a large hill on their left side of the battlefield. The Low Country army in contrast consisted almost entirely of knights and low country spearmen. The Sicilian army quickly assumed complete control over the hill, and then positioned the remained of the army on a narrow battlefield between the hill and a forest in the rear. While the bows and crossbows only inflicted moderate damage, they did perhaps incite the spearmen into some intemperous charges, attempting to engage the Sicilian knights to escape the swarm of arrows. Ultimately, the Low Country army wasn't able to break through and was badly affected as a few units spread significant panic in the ranks as they broke and fled.

Thanks for the game!

[Trogdor666]

Division B

Trogdor666 Indo-Parthian 60BC-130AD + Indian 500BC-319AD allies defeats Najanaja Byzantine 551–578, 51-13

[anderarcos11]

anderarcos11 (castilian) beat carpenkm (french), 67 to 41.

[anderarcos11]

anderarcos11 challengues indibil

Pm sent

[ulysisgrunt]

Division 2
ulysisgrunt (Hittites) defeated anderarcos11 55-26

[anderarcos11]

anderarcos 11 challengues aetius39, TaBai and harveylh