Slitherine

With a quarter of the games in round 1 now complete and a large number getting close to finishing, let's take a quick look at the outcomes so far:

Ricoual's Romans have got off to a flying start posting results against all three enemy armies. They were fought to a standstill against kmaher's Gauls but got the win over the Gallic tribes led by Cunningcairn. George's Carthaginian Invasion horde also came off second best against the home team. lydianed's Pyrrhic Greek's managed to give the legions a bloody nose and sent them heading back north to plan their next attack. Elsewhere George's Carthies and lydianed's Pyrrhics also reached a stalemate. Greetings' Carthies have lost narrowly to the two pyrrhic armies of iandavidsmith and lydianed.

A few players have commented on the army-build rules, the use of wide open terrain and having double moves switched off. For me it makes these games more competitive - as we've seen in the first few results we've had two draws and some narrow victories. I think it makes for more interesting play and makes more of the tactical abilities of foot and cavalry for example. It's been fun watching HF creep slowly across the board...

cunningcairn's Gallic army defeats George123's Carthaginians
23/41 vs 43/42
Gallic cavalry won the day by defeating Carthaginian cavalry on their left flank exposing the Carthaginian rear before the infantry closed.

lydianed (Pyrrhic) 33/42 vs Cunningcairn (Gallic) 44/41

Pyrrhics formed up across some hills facing off against the gauls on the other side of a wide valley. On the pyrrhic right the cavalry fought an extended duel with the gallic chariot corps which did enough to prevent the gauls flanking the pyrrhic line. The cavalry, bloodied and weary, retreated to regroup. Meanwhile the main gallic force moved forward left to right along the pyrrhic line, harrassed by bow shot. In a difficult position and fighting uphill for most of the time, the gallic army was slowly degraded over 18 long turns. A good game which again saw Cunningcairn using his now famous ability to pulll his enemy's battleline out of shape.

two results:
draw against Kmaher and his Gallic army, just a bloody battle 36/36 to 46/45 .
Victory against Cunningcairn and his Gallic 28/36 to 46/41, romans for once kept their line and destroyed gallic center before their wings collapsed.
Victory against Mcfcivo an his Romans, 7/36 to 46/42. Mcfcivo Romans just didn't want to fight against brothers, they chose instead to fly away.

Greetings44 (Carthaginian) 34/38 beat ricoual74(Romans) 37/37

A close bloody affair which halted ricouals rampaging legions.

cunningcairn's Gauls defeated mcfcivo's Romans
13/41 against 45/42
The Gallic mounted and medium foot overwhelmed the Roman left flank and defeated the slower moving Roman heavy foot from higher ground. Despite the remaining Roman heavies gaining the advantage of the Gallic warband on their right the casualties sustained on the left flank proved to be too much.

Sorry I've been a bit tardy with posting results

My Gauls beat Greeting's Carthaginians 30/45 vs 39/38
My Gauls drew with Ricoual's Romans 46/45 vs 36/36
My Gauls beat Cunningcairn's Gauls 39/45 vs 44/41
My Gauls beat George's Carthaginians 28/45 vs 43/42

Having fun so far. Thankfully the battles are on relatively open fields otherwise my undrilled HF would never get anywhere..

Looking forward to the mirror games

Cheers

Ken

My Romans have managed a victory at last vs Lydianed's Pyrrhic army, 41/42 to 43/42.

As you can see couldn't have been any closer. All came down to a final melee on my turn between two fragged units, with the scores as above, luckily my fragged Legionary C in C held out, a draw would have been a fair result!!

Cheers for the game ed.

cunningcairns's Gauls scraped to a victory over Greetings44's Carthaginians.
37/41 vs 38/38

Two more results

My Gauls beat Mcfcvio's Romans 22/45 vs 47/42
My Gauls beat Lydianed's Pyrrhic Army 22/45 vs 42/42

Cheers
Ken

Greetings44 Carthaginians 19/38 beat mcfcvio Romans 46/42

The dice gods were having fun with this game.

iandavidsmith (Pyrrhic in Italy) 28/40 win
vrs
George123 (Carthaginian in Africa) 50/42 loss

Thanks for the good game,

Ian

iandavidsmith (Pyrrhic in Italy) 10/40 win
vrs
mcfcivo Mid Republican Roman 45/42 loss

Not a good battle for the Romans , the legionaries bounced
off my pike line and could not get the upper hand after the impact round.

the Dice gods played a roll in the Pyrrhic win as well

thanks for the game,
Ian

iandavidsmith (Pyrrhic in Italy) 22/39 win
vrs
kmaher Gallic (Early Lowland) 50/45 loss

Thanks for a great game,
cheers
Ian

ATT: Cunningcairn

Challenge posted
password = magicpotion

good luck ,

Ian

My last Challenge to lydianed

Challenge posted
password = civilwar

good luck
Ian

ROUND TWO - MIRROR GAMES

There are just five games remaining from round 1 which haven't concluded yet - although I know some have kicked off already.

• Ian vs Eric
  George vs Greetings
  George vs mcfcivo
  ian vs Cunningcairn
  ian vs lydianed

Rather than keep everyone hanging on we'll start the mirror games now. A reminder of how this works.

This time, you challenge the same opponents as you did in Round 1 but you use the army they used against you and they use the army you used against them. For example; in Round 1 I made the following challenges:

• Pyrrhics vs Kmaher playing Gauls
  Pyrrhics vs Ricoual's playing Romans
  Pyrrhics vs George's playing Carthaginians
  Pyrrhics vs mcfcivo's playing Romans
  
  In Round 2 I will make the following challenges
  Gauls vs Kmaher playing Pyrrhics
  Romans vs Ricoual playing Pyrrhics
  Carthaginians vs George playing Pyrrhics
  Romans vs mcfcivo playing Pyrrhics

Couldn't be easier. Two points to note. There is to be no tailoring of the armies to meet different opponents. In the example above I'm playing Romans against both Ricoual and mcfcivo. I have to use the same Roman army each time. Secondly, make all your challenges at the same time - we have some challenges which have only just been made from nearly two weeks ago. It's a simple thing to do as you are not customising the army so three or four challenges all with the same password please.

A reminder of who is challenging who.

kmaher will challenge Cunningcairn, Ricoual74, Greetings 44, George123
iandavidsmith will challenge kmaher, Cunningcairn, George123, lydianed
Greetings44 will challenge Ricoual74, iandavidsmith, lydianed
Cunningcairn will challenge Greetings44, George123, mcfcivo, lydianed
George123 will challenge Ricoual74, Greetings44, mcfcivo
Ricoual74 will challenge Cunningcairn, iandavidsmith, mcfcivo
mcfcivo will challenge kmaher, Greetings44, iandavidsmith
lydianed will challenge kmaher, Ricoual74, George123, mcfcivo

Let's get this started.

Challenges posted
lydianed and iandavidsmith vs Pyrrhic in Italy
Ricoual74 vs Mid Republican Romans

password 'Sicily'

Hi

I've posted my challenges for Greetings44, George123, mcfcivo, and Lydianed. PW is cairn in all instances.

rgrds
Martin

Cunningcairn (Pyrrhic) 19/37 defeats Lydianed (Early Lowland Gauls) 45/45

Pyrrhic pike proved too much for the Gallic warband in the open and the Pyrrhic lancers combined with their hoplites to defeat the Gallic mounted..