The Dustbin

[stockwellpete]

Division B

Adjudication: elrawen v batesmotel - match awarded to batesmotel 4-0 (voting 3-0)
Adjudication: elrawen v Macedonczyk - match awarded to Macedonczyk 4-0 (voting 3-0)
Adjudication: elrawen v sunnyboy - match awarded to sunnyboy 4-0 (voting 3-0)

[phoyle3290]

Div C

Karvon (Thracian, Triballi 350 BC with Getae allies) defeated phoyle3290 (Carthaginian, Hannibal in Italy, 216BC with Bruttian allies) 46-20 for a 4-0 win.

Good playing. Smart play to stay in the woods with the medium inf. superiority. I probably shouldn't have spread out like I did, but I didn't expect that many medium foot in the woods. I saw a large number of lights and a few horses along with your token force on your right. I assumed, incorrectly, that this was the bulk of your force. I knew there was more left, but not to the extent that showed up when I reached the large forest...

Good game!

[Sennacherib]

Division A

Sennacherib ( Arabe conquête ) beat dkalenda ( Byzantins ) 50-23

[Stew101]

Division E

Stew101 (Thessalian 404-352BC, with Greek allies 460-281BC) defeated Baldrick52 (Indo Parthian 60Bc - 130AD). Score 62 : 43.

Thank you for the game Richard.

[desertedfox]

Division A

desertedfox - Achaemenid Persian 545-481 BC defeated dkalenda – Urartian 681-585 BC 63 -33

[NikiforosFokas]

Div C
NikiforosFokas - Carthaginian, Hannibal in Africa 202BC against phoyle3290 – Carthaginian, Hannibal in Italy, 216-203 BC with Bruttian or Lucanian allies.
pm to sent.

[Schweetness101]

Division A

Schweetness101 – Carthaginian, Hannibal in Italy 216-203 BC with Samnite 355-272 BC allies defeats Triarii - Jewish (64BC-6AD) with Roman (105BC-25BC) allies 49:24

gg to triarii

[Cunningcairn]

Division B

Cunningcairn - Arab, City 300-633 AD with Sassanid Persian 591-628 AD allies beat desertedfox - German Foot Tribes 260-599 AD with Roman 379-424 allies by 49% to 22%

[phoyle3290]

Division C

phoyle3290 – Hunnic, Western 376-454 AD with Germanic Foot Tribes 260-599 AD allies defeats batesmotel - Bosporan 11-375 AD with Roman 24-196 AD allies - 69-50

Thanks for the game!

(3-1)

[rs2excelsior]

Division D

rs2excelsior (Viking, Ireland 900-1049 AD with Scots 851-1051 AD allies) beat bomber23 (Andalusian 756-1049AD with Navarrese 778-899 AD allies) 63-58

Another hard fight with my infantry-centric Vikings (and Irish and Scots auxiliaries) up against a cavalry-heavy army... The fight mostly took place at and below a pair of hills, mostly open. Most of the Adalusian lancers formed up on their right flank, where my cavalry deployed to at least delay, and the Viking infantry pressed forwards to try and win the infantry fight before the cavalry came crashing onto my flank. However, Andalusian light cavalry pinned the meager Viking cavalry wing in place, and they were quickly crushed by the lancers. Spear huscarls quickly wheeled about to hold off the cavalry from the Viking left. Meanwhile, the main Viking infantry line was facing an uphill battle, both literally and figuratively. The veteran Muslim spearmen could easily go 2-1 against my shieldwalls, and there were enough of them to hold off my infantry from engaging the vulnerable massed archers. I thought the battle was done for, that my infantry would break on the defense of the veteran spears and the lancers would slam into my flank, and even before that I'd hit 60% before a skirmisher rallied... but the Muslim spearmen finally succumbed to a few flank charges and autobreaks, and the lancers were forced into an increasingly wide route around the Viking spearwalls I had managed to split off to delay them. The Andalusian infantry crumbled before their cavalry could save them, and pushed them over the break limit.

The final field, and the site of the main battle:

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An excellent fight which I thought was lost right up to the end! Very well played to my opponent.

(3-1)

[klayeckles]

Division A

klayeckles (persian+arabs) defeats Questar17 (Ostrogothic) 53 to 25

a wide open field and no real answer for the elephants made it tough going for the ostrogoths.

as a side note to interested parties...the absolute best antidote to elephants is superior spearmen (not so expensive, don't break under charge, crush in melee). i'm facing ConstantinIX in another battle and he brought the dismounted lancers (superior spear) and the persian elephants are neutralized, as they were also in the knockout finals by arab spears.

[SnuggleBunnies]

Division A

SnuggleBunnies (Bosporans) defeats nyczar (Romans) 40-10

https://youtu.be/BXk950Gum8U

GG!

[rs2excelsior]

Challenge out!

rs2excelsior (Carthaginian 550-411 BC with Greek, Western 460-381 BC allies) challenges SawyerK (Egyptian 664-571 BC with Assyrian 681-609 BC allies)
Password: spear

PM sent! See you on the battlefield!

[rs2excelsior]

Challenge out!

Division D

rs2excelsior (Viking, Ireland 900-1049 AD with Scots 851-1051 AD allies) challenges baldrick52 (Indian 546-599 AD)
Password: ragnarok

PM sent! See you on the battlefield!

[nyczar]

Division B

challenges up by nyczar - Frankish 751-887 AD with Croatian 625-849 AD allies

for

ConstantinIX - Arab Conquest 638-684 AD
Macedonczyk - Byzantine 963-987 AD with Arab, North Africa 789-999 AD allies
Nijis - Fatimid Egyptian 978-1073 AD


PW is rubicon PM sent

[nyczar]

Division A
nyczar - Roman 425-492 AD with Frankish 260-495 AD allies challenges

Nosy_Rat – Hunnic, Western 376-454 AD
XLegione - Roman 197-284 AD with Arab 312 BC-299 AD allies

PW is rubicon PM sent

[nyczar]

Division A

nyczar - Assyrian 681-609 BC with Median 836-627 BC allies challenges:

desertedfox - Achaemenid Persian 545-481 BC
dkalenda – Urartian 681-585 BC
Nosy_Rat - Cimmerian 750-600 BC with Thracian 680-461 BC allies
XLegione - Babylonian 629-539

PW is rubicon PM sent

[Karvon]

FYI, He's a few days behind in a current friendly game with me as well.

[stockwellpete]

FYI, He's a few days behind in a current friendly game with me as well.

So he is playing friendly matches but not picking up challenges from June and he is not visiting the forum so that I can speak to him. Oh well. Let's see what alternatives I can come up with then.

[Karvon]

I've not had a turn back from him for about a week, so perhaps something's come up. I'm not losing sleep over it as it's just a friendly game and I have others.