Apologies for the substandard photos.
Romans:
3x legionaires 6 stands each, all armored, Average, drilled, impact foot, swordsmen
3x legionaires 4 stands each, all armored, Superior, drilled, impact foot, skilled swordsmen
1x Auxiliary foot, 6 stands each, all armored, average, drilled, light spear, swordsmen
2x Alae, 4 stands each, armored, average, drilled, light spear, swordsmen
1x Alae contatarium, 4 stands, armored, average, drilled, lance, swordsmen
1x auxiliary archers, 6 stands, protected, average, drilled, bow
Germans:
Usual trash, but had 2 superior warbands, "inter quos decernebant et reges"
The size of the board pretty much forced a straight pitched battle. Hey diddle diddle, straight up the middle!
The line up. German skirmishers annoy the Roman Left. German cavalry attempts a turning of the Roman right. THe superior Roman legionaires support the average legionaires in the front line.
Roman left, with cavalry interspersed with foot in the front line. The extreme left are auxilia.
Roman right, with cavarly attempting to delay the German envelopment, and archers holding a field against all comers.
Alae Contatorium fails a CMT and charges Sarmatians and a superior warband. Not smart.
German horse charges the auxiliaries, who stand fast, disrupting the uppity nobles.
Germans charge the legions! They disrupt, however.
German heavy foot are going to disorder themselves to get at the Roman archers in the muddy field.
The Alae Contatorium breaks disgracefully, leaving a big hole in the Roman line, The Sarmatians charge home on the Auxilia in their pursuit.
The Brawl in the center. Average Joe's will get the job done just fine with dice like these!
The Roman archers hold their field.
German (superior) warband charges the Roman cavalry.
The hard core auxiliaries force the German nobles to break off, fragmented and down 25%. With no general nearby to rally them, they are effectively out of the battle now. The Sarmatians continue the melee.
A complete mess in the center. The average Germans and Romans are disrupting and fragging each other. One German warband has broken already.
The German front line pretty much collapses. The archers break their opponents, the Roman average legionaires hang on and break the Germans.
The Romans begin to roll up the German line.
The Auxilia hold on, despite being disrupted.
THe German routers have disrupted their supporting line (which is a good thing, since the Romans are in none too good shape, either). The Archers are having fun chasing down Germans. Just visible at the top is the Roman right wing cavalry which has managed to hold its ground.
A very confused melee.
End game. The German reserve warband is cannot break the fragmented and disrupted Romans, and gets charged itself in the flank by the roman auxilia archers.
They end up breaking, routing the German army.
Notes:
V2 doesn't seem to have helped the Germans any. The Romans don't appear to have suffered unduly by the armor differential change, being armored still beats being unarmored. The more generous support rules helped a lot. 800 points on a 4x6 table was pretty crowded. We used the 1inch MU instead of 40mm. We're still not sure about that.
The Romans had a stiff fight, but were victorius. All is right with the world.
