Slitherine

For Aetius39

Division E

Aetius39
Palmyran 258-273 AD with Arab 312-299 AD allies

VS

grumpydaddy845
Armenian 253-476 AD with Sassanid Persian 350-476 AD allies

PW: eagles

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For baldrick52

Division E

baldrick52
Frankish 260-495 AD

VS

grumpydaddy845
Armenian 253-476 AD with Sassanid Persian 350-476 AD allies

PW: eagles

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Division B

Nijis (Persians, 350-476 AD) defeats cromlechi (Romans, 379-424 AD) 54-26.

The clash of two mostly cavalry armies resulted in a scattered melee all over the field. The Persian horse archers, aided by their elephants, eventually got the better of the Roman infantry and lancers.

Division B

schmolywar - Arab, Conquest 629-637 AD beats nyczar - Frankish 751-887 AD with Croatian 625-849 AD allies 47 - 21

Division D

Swuul (British 600-1030 AD with Viking 780-899 AD allies) beat ggarynorman (Byzantine 963-987 AD) 63-33

A flat map with a couple rough patches and a small pond on the byzantine half of the map. Byzantines placed their excellent cavalry on the flanks, and their better infantry left of the pond, with most of the regular skutatoi and raw skutatoi on their right. British set up their cavalry on the left flank, brythonic foot ready to enter the rough patches plus on right flank ready to circumvent the byzantine line. Practically the same regular story as in most battles this season, the opponent hesitated in face of the british masses, which gave time for the british to get into the dogpile positions. The byzantine cavalry on flanks got checked by british cavalry and raw spearmen, center was dogpiled with human waves of spearmen and brythonic foot. The difference this time being that byzantine line left of the pond didn't fully crumble, and they caused many brits to run. But the main byzantine line right of the pond got swarmed to death, and that was all that was needed.
Thank you for the game ggarynorman.

Screen-shot of the end-situation: https://i.imgur.com/s0bCOvC.jpg

Division C

MikeMarchant (Ghaznavid 962-1187 AD with Turkish 600-1036 AD allies) Drew with IMC (French 888-1049 AD with Viking 900-1049 AD allies): 44/52

Good game, as always, Ian.


Best Wishes

Mike

(2-2)

Division F

Thunderbird - Roman 197-284 AD with Arab 312-299 AD allies defeated hscic - Palmyran 258-273 AD 67 - 38

Thank you hscic for the match.

Group A

dkalenda (Lombard 493-567 with Avar 558-631 allies) beat schmolywar (Gepid 493-567, no allies) surrendered

and

dkalenda (Gepid 493-567, no allies) beat schmolywar (Lombard 493-567 with Avar 558-631 allies) surrendered

I don't know why schmolywar surrendered the games where both open....

Div D
elrawen - Macedonian 260-148 BC with Greek 227-146 BC allies challenges to:

Bluefin - Syracusan 280-211 BC
bomber23 – Carthaginian, Hannibal in Italy 216-203 BC with Samnite 355-272 BC allies

password: punic

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Division A

harveylh - Thracian 680-461 BC with Greek 680-551 BC ally defeats ianiow - Kushite Egyptian 727-656 BC, 43-17

Terrain helped as a stream on one flank cut the battlemap by a quarter which was needed when you’re facing an army with 14 cavalry and 6 chariots. ianiow is using another scary army. I think I would rather fight the Arabs with all the camels.

Division D

Bluefin (French) defeats Rob123 (Sassanid Persian and Friends) 49-24'

Thanks for the game!

Division D

Doyley50 (Anglo Danish) defeated rs2excelsior ( Viking, Ireland with Scots allies) 61-58

Thanks for a great game which could have gone either way right to the very end!

(3-1)

Weekly round-up
Snugglebunnies (Roman) continues to lead Division A after posting his third win but the main challengers are grouping up behind him now including Ludendorf (Hannibal in Africa), Nosy_Rat (Indian) and dkalenda (Pontic), all of whom also have 100% records. Both Cunningcairn (Thracian) and harveylh (Ptolemaic) have had very difficult starts losing their opening 3 matches. There is a similar situation in Division B where the front runner edb1815 (Thracian) is being tracked by 3 unbeaten players namely nyczar (Spartan), Questar17 (Ptolemaic) and XLegione (Roman). Division C is going to be a very close contest and already every player has recorded at least one win. devoncop (Etruscan) is still on top ahead of ahuyton (Greek) but there are 3 or 4 other players who have made reasonable starts who could produce a challenge. Division D looks to be developing into a 2 horse race between elrawen (Macedonian) and SLancaster (Lysimachid) with both players being unbeaten in 5 matches. BishUK (Achaemenid) still leads Division E although kraff (Seleucid) has closed the gap a bit. A lot will depend on the form of Aetius39 (Macedonian) and baldrick52 (Indo-Parthian) in this division. Both players are yet to post a result. Tratmot (Hannibal in Africa) is the new leader in Division F, but he is being closely pursued by DanZanzibar (Carthaginian) who has won 4 of his 5 matches. Further down the table both Blagrot (Samnite) and Morat (Roman) have started with 2 wins from 3 matches and may be able to mount a challenge.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
Snugglebunnies (Division A) 3 matches
elrawen (Division D) 5 matches
SLancaster (Division D) 5 matches
DanZanzibar (Division F) 4 matches

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 12 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 14 out of 45 matches completed
Division C - 20 out of 45 matches completed
Division D - 15 out of 45 matches completed
Division E - 12 out of 45 matches completed
Division F - 24 out of 45 matches completed

These are good match completion rates.

Player of the week
Karvon (Division C) with 2 wins to move off the bottom of the table.

Weekly round-up
A fairly sedate start in Division A where ConstantinIX (Byzantine) is making the early running ahead of Nosy_Rat (Western Huns) and klayeckles (Sassanid). Questar17 (Ostrogoth) has also made a winning start. Nijis (Sassanid) has moved to the top of Division B with his third victory ahead of Cunningcairn (Arab City). IMC (Ancient British) has improved at the top of Division C this week as closest challengers batesmotel (Bosporan) and Challenge1 (Dacian) both suffered defeats. Swuul (Germanic Horse Tribes) has recovered from a poor start to sit in mid-table with his first 2 wins. bomber23 (Germanic Horse Tribes) suffered his first defeat this week, but he still leads Division D ahead of unbeaten edb1815 (Breton). Doyley50 (Dacian) is in third place with 2 wins from 3 starts. DanZanzibar (Arab City) has cruised into the lead in Division E after his fifth straight win but he could still face strong challenges from Aetius39 (Palmyran), baldrick52 (Frankish) and MadMaxBot (Roman), who are all also unbeaten so far. Similarly, in Division F, Warg1 (Arab City) has a commanding lead at the moment after 5 straight wins, but both hyme (Alan) and Morat (Ostrogoth) also remain unbeaten after winning their first 2 matches.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more
ConstantinIX (Division A) 3 matches
Nijis (Division B) 4 matches
IMC (Division C) 3 matches
edb1815 (Division D) 4 matches
DanZanzibar (Division E) 5 matches
Thunderbird (Division F) 3 matches
Warg1 (Division F) 5 matches

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 9 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 13 out of 45 matches completed
Division C - 16 out of 45 matches completed
Division D - 14 out of 45 matches completed
Division E - 17 out of 45 matches completed
Division F - 19 out of 45 matches completed

These are fairly good match completion rates.

Player of the week
DanZanzibar (Division E) and Warg1 (Division F) both with 3 straight wins this week.

Division C

IMC - Ancient British 60 BC-80 AD with Roman 24 BC–196 AD allies has beaten batesmotel - Bosporan 11-375 AD with Roman 24-196 AD allies Score: 65% to 41%

Thanks for the game.

Ian

Division C

sarmation (Phokian) beats gamercb (Thracian Getae) 42-16