After our recent game , we organised a rematch , increasing the points slightly to 700 points.
Here is the initial deployment , the terrain was spread out to the edges with the Romans deploying with a difficult river on their left flank and a village on their right.
The Roman deployment , you can just make out "Macamus" in the rear with his Cavalry.
The brave and noble Sassanids prepare to unleash hell upon Macamus...
The Sassanid light horse advanced directly at the roman lines , but decided that this sort of work was better left to the Cats and Hefalumps. The size of the Roman legion and Warband battle groups were too big for the small amount of shooting to cause any disruption , so they fell back looking for better targets on the flanks.
The Elephants advance , but a little to quick with the commander marching them up , they halt and wait for the Cats to catch up.
The Camels job was to look like a threat in the centre and then flee , hopefully drawing the legion out of the battle line.
The cunning plan is about to unfold.
Everyone wondered what was going on here as I wasn't ready to commit the Cats lead by Keithapur the Magnificent to fight the legion just yet , I about faced them ready to keep them out of reach of the legion.
Meanwhile on the left flank a mini battle was taking place.
The Sassanid LF and LH evaded from the charges of the romand MF and LH , this brought them out of the village into the open for the small BG of 4 Cats to get stuck into them.
After evading once the LH hold a charge from the Roman LH , dropping a cohesion level , but keeping the LH pinned in place for the plucky LF to exploit their flank.
This gave the left flank to the Sassanids , and ended with roman BG broken.
The battle in the centre was about to come to a conclusion
The elephants were sort of stuck in a bad spot , so ened up charging the warband on their own
They lost impact and melee and then were flanked.
The broke and ran through everyone , but later rallied.
This enabled the cats to charge another unit of MF , and they held off the help from the warband who ened up fighting in overlap , they pursued the MF.
Macaums and his legion eventually got a charge off onto the Camels and Cats lead by Keithapur , the Camels evaded , but too slow and were caught and broken , but the real fight was on in the centre and both CinC's were commited to the front rank.
Stupid Camels !
Another battle was about to unfold on the Sassanid left as the poor foot were about to recieve a charge fromt he roman cavalry.
The Poor foot were lead by a troop commander who made them fight like average HF , they held and eventually autobroke the roman cavalry.
The final shot of the table.
The Cataphracts on the bottom right had to utn and take a charge fromt he warband after pursuig the broken MF , the Cataphracts lost impact and melee , but held on fragmented.
The Legion vs Cataphracts battle in the centre was going well for Keithapur , I was rolling well , 6 attacks , 6 hits with quality re-rolls very turn , but Macamus was keeping the legion going.
At the top of the pictures the Sassanid LH were chased off after trying to loot the fortified camp , and the poor foot broke the roman cav.
Hope you enjoyed the report , I really enjoyed the game , it was a 10-4 victory to the Sassanids.
I have a few questions , but I'll post those in another thread.
My plan was to avoid fighting the roman Legion head on , I was forced into it in the end , but the Catphracts had a good day.
I was hoping to pick off the odd battle group , but breaking 3 on the left flank was a good start.
The elephants were thown away , but not lost, they eventually rallied back to steady , but when they broke and disrupted my two main Cataphract units , I thought it was going pear shaped.
Thanks to Mac for a great game , the Sassanids march further west for the next battle.
