Slitherine

Div F

DanZanzibar; Carthage235-146bc with Spanish Allies
Blagrot: Samnite 355-272bc with Italian Hill Tribe Allies
Morat: Roman 199-106bc with Greek Allies
Brenmusik: Slave Revolt 73-71bc

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Division B

Karvon (Roman 24 BC–196 AD with Jewish 64 BC–6 AD allies) defeated Schweetness101 - (Byzantine 551-578 AD) 60-59 for a 3-1 win.

(3-1)

We looked with a bit of despair at what essentially was a large plain with a single large forest towards the left of our center but well on the Byzantine side of the field. The legion tightened their chin straps in anticipation of a very long and hard day. We deployed most of our legion in simple checkerboard with auxiliaries on the wings and our horse in reserve. A few light foot screened our line. The Byzantines deployed a long line of horse; lancers formed the bulk of the line making up the center and right, with a fair number of horse archers on the left. A small body of foot, a couple of legio and archer units were on their right anchored on the woods. they were screened by a handful of light foot. Our plan was to advance our line so the woods would shield our left and refuse our right in hopes of delaying the expected Byzantine attempt to envelop us.

Both armies advanced to contact; initially, the Byzantine lancers essentially pinned the bulk of our line while the battle developed on the flanks. On our right the Byzantine horse archers attempted to flank us, and we countered by committing our reserve horse and aggressively chasing them off with support from some of our medium and light foot. We traded losses here, but blocked the envelopment attempt. In the center, we suffered some casualties to shooting and made a few risky attempts to drive back the lancers which didn't really do much but break up the lines a little bit. One lancer squeezed through our lines pursuing a skirmisher and that caused us a bit of grief to counter. On our left, our foot engaged the archers and legio units and broke them after a hard fight which took a bit longer than I hoped. We lost some units as well to the intervention of some neighboring lancers which delayed efforts to pursue. This proved costly as two of the four rallied shortly, one fully, and that later one returned to plague us and cost us another couple of units. We did manage to scrape together troops to finish both of these off, again. In the center, the returning lancers flanked a couple of our units, breaking them, but likewise, a couple of long running melees againt lancers finally broke in our favor and we just edged by the Byzantines, who would've undoubtedly broken us as well if they'd managed to survive one more turn.

The final view of the field.

Division E

kraff (Seleucid 124-63 BC) defeated rs2excelsior (Ptolemaic 55-30 BC) 40-10

Thank you for the battle, rs2excelsior!

Div D
Garokan Arab (Bedouin) 300-636 AD with Byzantine 579-599 AD
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Rob123 - Roman 379-424 AD with Armenian 253-476 AD allies
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Div D
Garokan Arab (Bedouin) 300-636 AD with Byzantine 579-599 AD
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Barrold713 - Roman 425-492 AD with Frankish 260-495 AD allies
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Div C
Garokan - Polish 966-1057 AD with Rus 860-959 AD allies
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sunnyboy - Scots 851-1051 AD with Viking 790-899 AD allies
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Div C
Garokan - Polish 966-1057 AD with Rus 860-959 AD allies
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rexhurley - Hindu North 600-1049AD
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nicely done!

Division D

General Shapur Dailami 928-1055 AD with Armenian 885-1045 AD allies defeats rs2excelsior Viking (Ireland) 900-1049 AD with Scots 851-1051 AD allies 43:16

Great game - decisive cavalry charge rolled up the line.

Division D

Swuul (British 600-1030 AD with Viking 780-899 AD allies) beat rs2excelsior (Viking, Ireland 900-1049 AD with Scots 851-1051 AD allies) 42-15

A map with an impassable river cutting off a fifth of the map on the left, and a small pond further narrowing the front. The center was dominated by a large but low hill, behind which (on the Viking side) was a large forest. The armies presented just about every possible units roaming in Britain during the early medieval; vikings, brythons, irish, picts, scots, anglo-saxons. This was also the first battle of this season in which my british didn't have numerical superiority (the vikings had 17277 men while the british brought 17238). The vikings hid their irish and pict allies in the forest, and did let the british take the large hill mostly without combat, though on the leftern side of the hill (seen from the British side) the vikings took a stand. However, the british skirmishers first unleashed their volleys on the viking, and then the british hordes swamped vikings on the hill and next to the pond, while the brythonic infantry and some more british spearmen stared down on the irish and picts in the woods (who, even though having numerical superiority against the british holding them in check, could not charge out of the woods uphill and expect to survive against the british defensive spearmen). Left of the pond the british cavalry together with some raw spearmen managed to hold the line and tie down viking units from reinforcing the center.
Thank you for the game rs2excelsior, it started as a nailbiter, and some spectacular scenes when the shield-walls clashed in the center (too bad I didn't take a screenshot of that), until the british dogpile began in earnest.

Screenshot of the final situaion: https://i.imgur.com/hITLi7X.jpg

Division C

IMC - French 888-1049 AD with Viking 900-1049 AD allies has beaten SpeedyCM - Dailami 928-1055 AD with Armenian 885-1045 AD allies Score: 66% to 57%

A miracle happened for the French in the end with multiple auto-breaks and routs in the last turn. Should have been a draw.

Thanks for the game.
Ian

(3-1)

Division C

baldrick52 - Kyrenean Greek 630-461 BC beats rs2excelsior - Carthaginian 550-411 BC with Greek, Western 460-381 BC allies 60% - 45%

Very bloody game!

Macedonczyk has won the 2020 KO Tournament decisively beating klayeckles in the final. For details of this game go to . . . viewtopic.php?f=511&t=99524

Division F

hscic - Palmyran 258-273 AD

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Conteshard - Roman 24BC-196AD with Arab 312BC-199AD allies


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Division C

batesmotel (Bosporan w Roman allies) beat Gdod (Byzantine) 61-51

Thanks for a good game. The Bosporan cavalry in the end managed to kill a bit more than the Byzantine dismounted lancers.

Chris

(3-1)

Div F

Warg1 – Arab, City 300-633 AD challenges hyme - Alan 25-650 AD

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Group B

harveylh (Slav 500-832 AD, no allies) defeats Cunningcairn (Avar 558-631, no allies), 42-16

Closer than the score indicates. GG.