The late republican Romans completely crushed the Early Germans (lost 2 out of 11 to 14 out of 14).
MF warbands were routed in a single bound in each case. Pursuit and charges often reduced moves for the germans, leading to delays in the attacks.
The fact that there are 3 melees between each move by a single player proved a big problem for the german. They were unable to use their superior numbers and their units were killed in detail one after the other.
On frontal contact, the Romans, whether superior or elite, proved completely invulnerable.
Several questions occured during the game:
- 1) A LF, already engaged in melee against another LF, was charged by a Roman legion. Surprisingly, it did not suffered from any malus on the cohesion test (while MF do) after losing the impact phase. In the movement phase, the roman LF wished to contract their engaged front (keeping the same number of base in combat since they were filling up rear ranks previously lost) to be replaced by the expanding legions. Is such a move legal?
2) An elite legion BG (4 bases) in column was hit by a warband BG (8 bases, 2 ranks). The contact occured on the extreme right of the warband group. After initial impact, how are expansion/lining uo done? Can the legion expand on the overlap side of the warband? Which unit does expand first? (if the roman expand on the warband front first, the warband can then slide to get all 8 elements in melee, if the warband slide first, then the roman can expand on the small side and fight only 6 enemy element).
IMO, if a unit wishes to expand/slides, it should be compulsory to do it in such a way as to maximise the number of enemy bases in contact.
3) a BL of 3 cavalry BGs side by side was charged on the middle and left BG. The right BG counted as an overlap. Is it considered as engaged in melee? In particular, in the next bound, can it separate from the combat to charge another enemy unit or is it stuck until the melee is solved?
Similarly, after the enemy BG routed its direct opponent, can it pursue or is it still engaged by the overlapping BG?