The Dustbin

[Barrold713]

Division E for Eagles

Barrold713 (Palmryan) defeats Captainwaltersavage 53-28

Had to block superior cavalry for enough time to engage my legionaries with his warbands. The warbands didn't hang around long and the line was blown apart before the cav could break free and help. I had a cataphract unit with a general and it fragmented on the first melee with his lancers.

Thanks for the match and good game.

BDH

[SnuggleBunnies]

Division A

SnuggleBunnies (Medes) defeats desertedfox (Skythians) 41-9

https://youtu.be/I9jE0DUM4_g

GG

[Karvon]

Division C

Karvon - Arab (Conquest) 629-637 AD defeated ulysisgrunt - Welsh 600-1049 AD with Anglo-Danish 1017-1041 AD allies 45-3 for a 4-0 win.

A series of gentle hills ran from the middle of the Welsh deployment area off to their left flank anchored by a large wood which lay in front of the ridge and against their left edge. On our side of the field, a long gentle slope ran across part of our center and a large plateau faced faced the forest on the edge.

The Welsh list has a lot of cheap infantry a mix of medium and heavy foot backed up by a few cavalry and light foot. I fully expected them to initially mass on their ridges and forest and wait to see how I would try to tackle them. Facing this potential defensive bulwark, I maxed out my lights and supporting massed bowmen for use in softening up. I brought camels to support my cheap Bedouin lancers to follow up the skirmishers and deal with his cavalry. I added a pair of Bedouin foot to help with small patches of rough or woods. Most of my army was our superior spear for grinding down the expected cheap infantry masses.

We deployed our spear to the left behind the ridge line with our bows on the left and our light foot screening. Our Bedouin foot initially were in reserve in the rear. Our mounted started out in reserve behind all the infantry. The Welsh deployed about as we expected; a mass of infantry lined the ridges with a few light foot screening them. Their four cavalry formed in reserve on the right behind them. Our plan was pretty simple, we pushed our lights and bow supported by our mounted on our left swinging quite wide of the ridge then wheeling to threaten his cavalry line guarding the right end of his ridge. Our spear escheloned left to cover the flank of this advance.

He shifted some of his infantry line to refuse his right and began to redeploy some of his foot from his far left. My skirmishers advanced to effective range and began pelting his cavalry and refused infantry, disrupting some. He charged his cavalry off the hill and my skirmishers scurried out of the way and reformed as my cavalry and camels moved closer. His cavalry wheeled to return to the hill and my skirmishers moved up and shot more of them down. My infantry slowly continued their shift left in support of my skirmishers and mounted. My light lancers moved across his rear and one I threw to pin a retreating cavalry. About half of his cavalry broke and fled from bowfire and a couple more of his supporting infantry were disrupted by the routs and fire. My camels and cavalry moved up threatening his right.

He advanced his infantry off the hill to stop my spear from exploiting his shaking right. My spears happily turned to deal with these brave men and steadily mowing them down. My archery disrupted a few more and the cavalry and spears finished them off and the Welsh streamed for the hills.

The final scene...

[joggy]

Division D

joggy (Serbian) beats Bluefin (Frankish) (27%) 49-22

[Kerait]

Division E

Kerait (Roman 105-25BC with Bithynian 297-74BC allies) beat joggy (Roman 219-200BC with Numidian or Moorish 341-56BC allies) 62-52

It was a hard-fought battle and it was probably luck that got the later Roman army over the line. Legionaries are a very forgiving unit to use.

(3-1)

[desertedfox]

Division B

desertedfox (1600) (9) - Rus 960-1053 AD with Polish 966-1057 allies drew with bomber23 (1200) (3) - Arab (Conquest) 638-684 AD 56 -53

(2-2)

[SimonLancaster]

Division C

SLancaster (Roman 197-284 AD) defeated oscarius (Jewish Revolt 66-135 AD). 47-13.

A hard slog v the Zealots. I managed to keep my line together and push on. Jewish Revolt 166 is a good army and I am sure it will cause a lot of problems in this division. Thanks for the game.

[Stew101]

Division C

Stew101 (Roman 105 -25BC, with Armenians allies) beat bomber23 (Seleucid !66-125BC, with Jewish allies). Result was 51 - 14.

[Aetius39]

Division D

Aetius39 (Assyrian) defeats bomber23 (Babylonian) 62-43

Assyrians initially were going to play defensively as they had the better ground but no, their ground commander would not hear of it! So they came at the Babylonians, and almost lost it.^^ Very close game that had the Assyrians with more than a bit of luck. Well-played bomber and thanks for the game!

[Aetius39]

Pool B Group 4

Aetius39 (Persian) defeats Spacemonkey76 (Lydian) 49-18

First, the Persians got the upper hand in the fighting between the light infantry, sending most of the Lydian light away broken by arrows. The main Lydian army bravely went forth, but were shot enough before they entered melee that the Persians were able to gang up and defeat them. GG to my opponent who was a pleasure to play.^^

[Aetius39]

Pool B Group 4

Aetius39 (Lydian) defeats Spacemonkey76 (Persian) 52-6

The main Lydian hoplite/medium infantry army marched up to the Persian line shielded by their lights, who softened up the main Persian army. After clashing, the Persian mediums were no match for the hoplites. Thanks for the game Spacemonkey!

Group standings
1. Aetius39 P4 - 16 pts
2. Spacemonkey76 P2 - 0pts
2. Tratmot P2 - 0 pts

Aetius39 has qualified for the knockout stage.

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Weekly round-up
A fairly sedate start in Late Antiquity. No results yet in Division A and just 1 in Division B. SLancaster (Roman) has taken an early lead in Division C but in Division D Warg1 (Scots-Irish) has made a whirlwind start winning his first 5 matches already! Will anyone be able to stop him winning automatic promotion? In Division E there have been wins for Barrold713 (Palmyran), Morat (Lombard) and Rob123 (Germanic Horse Tribes) and TomoeGozen (Soissons) has taken an early lead in Division F with 2 wins.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
Warg1 (Division D) - 5 matches

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 0 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 1 out of 45 matches completed
Division C - 2 out of 45 matches completed
Division D - 5 out of 45 matches completed
Division E - 3 out of 45 matches completed
Division F - 3 out of 45 matches completed

Player of the Week: Warg1 (Division D) with 5 straight wins.

[Cunningcairn]

Division B
Cunningcairn
challenges
batesmotel

Assyrian 681-609 BC v Babylonian 626-539 BC with Median 626-550 BC allies (Fall of Assyria 613 BC)

PW is biblical
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[kronenblatt]

Division E

kronenblatt (Rus 960-1053 AD with Bulgar (Danube) 852-1018 AD allies) beat Morat(French 888-1049 AD with Viking 900 -1049 AD allies) 60-34.

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Weekly round-up
Nothing to report from Division A yet while desertedfox (Rus) has taken an early lead in Division B. Karvon (Arab Conquest) has won his first 2 matches in Division C to top the table ahead of newcomer mr cholo (Viking Ireland). In Division D joggy (Serbian) has won 5 out of 8 matches but will need to win his last match to set the others a reasonable target. kronenblatt (Rus) has 2 wins from 2 starts in Division E to go top, 1 point ahead of TomoeGozen (Byzantine) who has 2 wins from 3 starts. In Division F wellsonian (Byzantine) has won the only match to be completed so far.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
No-one at the moment

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 0 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 2 out of 45 matches completed
Division C - 4 out of 45 matches completed
Division D - 9 out of 45 matches completed
Division E - 6 out of 45 matches completed
Division F - 1 out of 45 matches completed

Player of the Week: Karvon (Division C) and kronenblatt (Division E) both with 2 straight wins.