The Dustbin

[Thunderbird]

Well done!

[Stew101]

Division E

Stew101 (Thessalian 404 - 352BC, with Greek Allies) beat Barrold713 (Carthaginian Hannibal Africa 202 BC, with Numidain/Moorish Allies). Score 41 - 11.

Well in appears my belief that my paper tiger heavy infantry units need a hill was misplaced.
Not a hill in site on this map, so my heavy foot had to lurk around some patches of woods, acting as bait.
This they did brilliantly, whilst my lights and cavalry took defeated the parts of my opponents army they could.

Thanks very much for the game Barry, see you next time.

[random27]

Well played

[cromlechi]

Good going you will be in division A before you know it:)

[Barrold713]

Division E for Excelsior!

Barrold713 (Germans) defeats Stormcrow (Vikings) 62-46

Just a slugfest. Thanks for the match.

BDH

[rs2excelsior]

Division E

BishUK (Persian) beat rs2excelsior (Ptolemaic) 60-55

(3-1)

Just want to add a bit to this... it was a very back and forth battle. The Persian army had an excellent position on a hill behind a stream, lined with sparbara with archers shooting over their heads. My mediums went up against that line, and were chewed apart, while my pikes and legionnaires forced a crossing of the stream against the Persian hoplite auxiliaries. I was losing badly at first, then largely pulled the score back (though I don't think I was ever leading) as I crashed through the Persian right and tried to wheel about to engage their sparbara foot, and right at the end it was a race to 60% and my army gave way first. A very fun fight which went from me thinking it was largely over before it started to actually being a near-run thing!

[phoyle3290]

Div C

phoyle3290 – Hunnic, Western 376-454 AD with Germanic Foot Tribes 260-599 AD allies challenges MikeMarchant - Roman 24 BC-196 AD with Sarmatian 25-375 AD allies

Password: Rome

PM sent

[phoyle3290]

Div C

phoyle3290 – Carthaginian, Hannibal in Italy, 216-203 BC with Bruttian or Lucanian allies challenges devoncop - Etruscan 330 – 280 BC with Samnite 355-272 BC allies

Password: devoncop

PM sent

[Rob123]

Division D

Rob123 (Roman 379-424AD with Armenian 253-578AD allies) challenges rs2excelsior (Byzantine 551-578AD)

PW excel PM sent

[SpeedyCM]

Division C

SpeedyCM - Median 626-550 BC challenges MadMaxBot - Assyrian 681-609BC with Median 836-627 BC allies

PW - MadMaxBot

PM sent.

[rexhurley]

Division C

rexhurley (Indians) defeats speedycm (Dailiami) 49/12

Once Nellies get on the flank of a line in pursuit it blows scores out. Makes a change from the usual double drop frag nonsense of this season so far

[DanZanzibar]

Division E

DanZanzibar (Arab City 300-633 AD with Sassanid 591-628 AD allies) defeats Aetius39 (Palmyran 258-273 AD with Arab 312-299 AD allies) 58-30

Great opponent and really a close match. There was the possibility of a few early breakthroughs that Aetius may have gotten with the right rolls that would have most likely meant a win for him.

[Supervark]

Division E

Supervark Sassanid Persian 477-590Ad requests the pleasure of Martin with his Scots 851-1051 AD with a bunch of Vikings from Ireland 900-1049 AD to fight on the Battlefield.

PW Noggins Pm sent

[Najanaja]

Division D

Najanaja (Roman) tied with Challenge1 (Roman) 65-60.

Nuff said...

(2-2)

[Swuul]

Congrats!

[Cunningcairn]

During the course of the trial I will listen to arguments that say the default size of the battles should be 1600pts (because larger sized battles won the poll) and that both players should have to opt for 1200pt armies to be able to play a medium sized battle. I do think it is incumbent on me to listen to player's views on the trial as it is taking place. But I will not listen to arguments that say all battles should be 1600pts in future. The poll result did not come to that conclusion and I will not be running any further polls on this subject.

Seems very reasonable to me and I voted for 1600 points after being persuaded by Cunningcairn.

Harvey

Well if you can't beat them then change their minds is my motto

[DanZanzibar]

Division E

DanZanzibar (Dailami 928-1055 AD with Armenian 885-1045 AD allies) defeats Supervark (Rus 960-1053AD with Polish 966-1057 AD allies) 44-3

A super cool opponent whose spearmen just decided they would rather leave the field than tangle with impact foot... immediately. Too bad as I thought we were going to have quite a few more turns to continue our fantastic conversation on music. Thanks for the game and looking forward to our next one!

[harveylh]

Division A

harveylh - Ptolemaic 55-30 BC with Roman 105-25 BC allies challenges Nosy_Rat - Indian 500 BC-319 AD, password nosy, pm sent

[Nijis]

Division B

Nijis (Sassanid Persians 350-476 AD) defeats Schweetness101 (Byzantine 551-578 AD) 55-29.

An intense, scrambling battle over a pair of rocky hills and a deep stream.

[batesmotel]

Division B

Challenge for Macendonczyk's Assyrians vs my Achaemenids posted, password macedonczyk.

Chris