Slitherine

Division C

MorkinTheFree - Romano-British 407-599 AD defeated cromlechi - Pictish 210-476 AD with Anglo-Saxon 449-599 AD allies with score 40-14

Division E

Blagrot (Spanish (Sertorius) 80-70 BC) beat DryNick (Carthaginian (Hannibal in Africa) 202 BC) 46% - 21%

The sneaky Carthagians hid several elements in a forest a way behind where the fighting started which collapsed the Spanish left but unfortunately for my opponent not before his centre and much of his left had been overrun, Hannibals remaining elephants and veterens survived the battle however. Thanks for the game.

Division A
Cunningcairn (2) - Roman 105-25 BC with Numidian or Moorish 55 BC- 6 AD ally
challenges
Nosy_Rat (10) - Pontic 84-47 BC with Armenian (Tigranes) 83-69 BC allies
PW is classical
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Division A
Cunningcairn - Roman 379-424 AD with Armenian 253-476 AD ally
challenges
Questar17 (2) - Byzantine 551-578 AD with Germanic Horse Tribes 260-492 AD allies
PW is later
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wellsonian wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:58 pm This concept worries me....I am a first year player. I like the concept of having "an army." Reminds me of the time in my youth when I spent a lot of time and money painting "an army." Maybe we don't do it in other leagues?

Paired games will only be happening in Biblical and the Themed Event in future, not the other sections where players will still be using one army as usual.

Division B

Morbio (Carthaginian (Hannibal in Italy) 216-203BC with Samnite 355-272 BC allies) defeated BatesMotel (Pergamene with Greek allies) 63 - 38

Thanks for the game

Division C

Karvon (Arab (Conquest) 629-637 AD) defeated grumpydaddy845 (Dailami 928-1055 AD) 47-0 for a 4-0 win.

The armies met along the coast on a field bisected by a deep winding stream. A large patch of rough ground fell on the Arab side of the stream along the coast which anchored our left flank. A very large fields complex lay about 200 paces to the left of the rough patch and 300 paces short of the stream.

I brought a maximum contingent of 7 light food and 3 massed bowmen to use to harass the enemy horse and provide some shooting support to my spears. I brought a token sized mobile reserve of 2 camels and 4 Bedouin lancers. The core of my army was my 11 veteran spearmen. A couple of light Bedouin lancers to serve as roving scouts rounded out my army.

I deployed my light foot across the front of the fields network. Behind them I deployed my spears interspersed with my massed bow, with several spear anchoring each flank of the complex. My mounted troops formed up behind the field network. A light lancer was thrown out at the extreme end of each flank.

My plan was to await the expected Dailami hordes well short of the stream, and it's disordering affects. Within the enclosures, my foot would gain some additional protection from the initial fierce charge and be impossible to flank - a key factor given I was pretty sure he'd outnumber me. My mobile reserve could move up to flank if the Dailami tried to encircle my infantry or could perhaps press an opposing cavalry wing thanks to the shooting and disordering effects of my camels. My lights could either screen my heavier foot, or move off to threaten opposing horse in conjunction with my mobile reserve.

The Dailami formed up opposite the fields network anchoring their line of infantry on the coast on my left. They had a small mounted contingent of armored lancers and bow in reserve covering the left end of their line. They had 3 or 4 light lancers screening those and a few light foot loosely screening their medium foot line. 3 or 4 of their mediums were veterans scattered along the line.

I initially shifted my light screen to my right and up into the deep stream, while my spears moved up and occupied the forward edges of the fields network. One of my light lancers snuck around his right wing and loitered in the rear. The Dailami moved his infantry line up to the edge of the stream. A few units on his far right he moved across into the rough ground along the coast. He moved up his horse to extend his infantry line along the stream bank on his left.

My lights began pelting his horse from the relative safety of the stream. I moved up my mounted troops to guard the bank opposite his horse. My camels lent their shooting to further discomfort the enemy horse. Some of his horse broke under the extended fire. Others fell back out of range fragmented. One of his lancers charged into the stream and locked up in combat with one of my light bow. My mounted flanked and broke this one and other charged across and broke the shaken ones.

In the center, the Dailami crossed the stream and cautiously advanced towards my waiting spear, anchoring on a couple of units holding position in a bend of the stream. After a couple of rounds of shooting to soften them up a little with my massed bow, I advanced my spear out of the enclosures and engaged across a frontage of 3-4 units. A couple of spear moved out and stared down the Dailami holding in the stream. After a bit of a fight, his center crumbled and we were victorious.

The final scene

Division E

Blagrot (Spanish (Sertorius) 80-70 BC) challenges Barrold713 (Seleucid 302-301 BC with Lysimachid 320 BC allies)
PW: Pikes

Also Blagrot (Spanish (Sertorius) 80-70 BC) challenges Tratmot (Achaemenid Persian 480-416 BC with Greek 680-461 BC allies)
PW:Arrows

Division B
Cunningcairn (1200) (7) - German 933-1049 AD with Polish 966-1057 AD allies
challenges
bomber23 (1200) (3) - Arab (Conquest) 638-684 AD
Challenge1 (1200) (6) - Viking (Ireland) 900-1049 AD with Scots 851-1051 AD allies
PW is middle
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Division E

Tratmot (Polish) beat TomoeGozen (Byzantine) 50-23

funny grim games

Assyrian 681-609 BC
Hebrew 681-586 BC
Phoenician 681-539 BC
Thracian (Getae) 680-330 BC
Elamite (815-539 BC)

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Division B

Cunningcairn - German 933-1049 AD with Polish 966-1057 AD allies beat lydianed - Arab Umayyad 685-750 AD with Moorish 350-698 AD allies 48% to 22%

Division E

Blagrot (British 600-1030 AD with Viking 780-899 AD allies) beat DryNick (1600) (Arab Conquest 638-684 AD) 59% - 33%

The veteran arab spears were cheerfully beating up the british spearwalls but the slowest outflanking maneouvre in history by some defensive spearwalls got to them before my line broke, while the Huscarls managed to break through to flank the arabs from the other side. Thank you for a good brawl.

Division B

lydianed (Umayyad + Moors) defeated kraff (Ghaznavid) 62:44

In Division C
SawyerK (Seleucid 302-301 BC with Lysimachid ally) has issued a challenge to Ironclad (Carthaginian Hannibal in Italy 218-217 BC). PW sent by PM.

Division D

snooky51 (Spartan 221-146 BC with Roman 280-220 BC allies) defeats Tresantes (Pyrrhic 274-272 BC) --- 48-21

Pyrrhus attempted a wide flanking maneuver that never had a chance to materialize as everything RNG-wise that could go wrong, went wrong on the same turn.

Achaemenid Persian 545-481 BC
Assyrian 681-609 BC
Lydian 687-551 BC
Egyptian 664-571
Median 626-550 BC

Div C

Karvon (Arab (Conquest) 629-637 AD) challenges...

Aetius39 (Andalusian 756-1049 AD)

PW = karvon
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