Chaos Tourney IV

[TomoeGozen]

Div 2 challenge set up ,
TomoeGozen(Kappadokian 260BC - 17AD) challenges Kerait(Rus 860 - 959 AD)

[TomoeGozen]

Div 2 challenge set up ,
TomoeGozen(Carthaginian 262 - 236 BC) challenges snooky51(Viking(Ireland) 795-899AD)

I couldn't see a Viking(Ireland) 780-899AD list as shown in the matchups , I'm guessing this is the right one...

[Challenge1]

Div 1 challenges

Challenge1
(Roman) V Aetius39 (Spartan)
(Byzantine) V General Shapur (Viking)
(Frankish) V Macedonczyk (Cimmerian)
(Pergamene) V NikiforosFokas ( Thracian)
(Bosporan) V rs2excelsior ( Thracian)

Challenges are up, PM sent

[TomoeGozen]

Division 2 result:

Tomoegozen (Spanish) defeats Rob123 (Parthian) 66-42.

A swirling , confusing mess dodging between the various bits of bad terrain eventually evolved into lots of separate individual battles all over the place. It came down to who was lucky enough to get the 60% first.

Thanks to Rob for a tough interesting game.

[Thunderbird]

DIV C
Thunderbird (Greek) defeated MikeC_81(Bulgar) 42 - 5

Mike had a tough match up with the armored Greeks.......

[Rob123]

Division 2

Rob123 (Ptolemaic 217-167BC) challenges kronenblatt (Pecheneg 850-1122AD)

PW kronen

PM sent

[rbodleyscott]

Division 2 result:

rbodleyscott (Early Achaemenid Persian) defeated bomber23 (Mercenary Greek) 58-20

Despite a hail of arrows, inflicting a number of early routs/autobreaks, the Greeks were at last carving their way through the Immortals, but got outflanked and defeated in detail elsewhere.

[Delbruck]

Division 3 result:
Delbruck (Seleucid) defeated MikeC_81 (Skythian/Saka) 47-14.

[Karvon]

Division 3 result:
Delbruck (Seleucid) defeated MikeC_81 (Skythian/Saka) 47-14.

Um, you guys were supposed to be fighing...

Delbruck MikeC_81 Moravian 833-907 AD Thracian (Gallic) 280-212 BC

That army match was supposed to be vs Thunderbird.

You must have accidentally switched

Karvon the Chaotic

[MikeC_81]

Division 3 result:
Delbruck (Seleucid) defeated MikeC_81 (Skythian/Saka) 47-14.

Um, you guys were supposed to be fighing...

Delbruck MikeC_81 Moravian 833-907 AD Thracian (Gallic) 280-212 BC

That army match was supposed to be vs Thunderbird.

You must have accidentally switched

Karvon the Chaotic

This game never happened. He must be referring to another result. Delbruk requested a map reroll. I told him to set up the another game but he has yet to do so.

[Karvon]

Hmm, I see; I've sent him a PM to sort this out.

Karvon

[Delbruck]

My apologies.

That should be:

Delbruck (Seleucid) defeats Thunderbird (Saka/Skythian) 47-14.

[MikeC_81]

Game vs roguedjack is up. PM sent - pw is chaos


edit: Div3 MikeC (Rus) def Deeter (Numidian) 48-20

Tough break with a general dying and Imitation Legionaries rolling poorly on Impact

[Rob123]

Division 2
Rob123 (Sassanid Persian 350-476AD) challenges Kerait (Kyrenean Greek 460-322BC)

PW Kerait
PM sent

[TomoeGozen]

Division 2 result:

Tomoegozen (Byzantine) defeats bomber23 (Vandal) 63-51.

Yes , it was as close as the score would suggest! On a pretty much totally open and flat battlefield it was a weird game of nearly all lancers both sides chasing each other round and round , pursuing off in very unhelpful directions...
Very random and unpredictable, it could have gone either way.

thanks to bomber23 for the game.

[wmpryor]

Chaos Tournament - Div 3 Challenges

wmpryor (Indo-Skythian 95BC-50AD) challenges Thunderbird (Spartan 280-228BC)

wmpryor (Indian 320-476AD) challenges Deeter (Thracian 211-51BC)

wmpryor (Arab [Abbasid] 874-946AD) challenges DanZanzibar (Achaemenid Persian 460-420BC)

wmpryor (Lombard 568-569AD) challenges Blagrot (Pontic 281-111BC)

Password: Chaos

[rs2excelsior]

Division 1 result

rs2excelsior (Macedonian 260-148 BC) beat General Shapur (Byzantine 988-1041 AD) 46-10

A fairly straightforward battle. The Macedonians formed with the pikes in the center, medium infantry to the right positioned to take a hill in the middle of the field and cavalry screening the left. The Byzantine lancers were ill-suited to charging the Macedonian phalanxes and so the burden of attack was on the Macedonians for most of the battle. The phalanxes were forced to take repeated low-odds impacts as the lancers kept falling back, but managed to catch enough in melee to get an early lead - if I remember correctly, the score was 30-0 before the Byzantines scored a point. The Macedonian cavalry had some initial success holding off their Byzantine counterparts, though were eventually becoming overwhelmed by the lancers - though not quickly enough to save their main body from the rapidly advancing hedge of spears.

The battlefield at the end:

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Well played General, it was a poor matchup for the Byzantines and it didn't help you were outnumbered basically 2-1.

[General Shapur]

Division 1 result

rs2excelsior (Macedonian 260-148 BC) beat General Shapur (Byzantine 988-1041 AD) 46-10

One good thing about the chaos tournament is trying new tactics with untested armies - however, the Bizzys cav was never going to work against lances unless you got unlucky. Well played.

[TomoeGozen]

Div 2 challenge set up ,
TomoeGozen(Armenian 639 - 717 AD) challenges Kronenblatt(Spanish 718 - 899 AD)
PM sent.

[snooky51]

Div 2 result

snooky51 - Irish 900-1049 AD defeats Carthaginian 280-263 BC --- 63-58

Down to the wire game, Irish had to use a lot of movement and concentration of numbers to pull this one out.