Slitherine

Good show Sir Blathergut, a round of Bubble-etts for all!

Morbio wrote: Any news of other battles? Something must be happening, a few lines will do....

Carthage and Roman have just started the battle , no casualties yet.
Ian

Apologies team, I didn't do well, and Blathergut played a blinder..........perhaps I should follow the Ryder Cup tradition of being a non-playing Captain next time round!

Hope you can make up for my lapse!

CheAhh 29/73 - defeated - deatorius 68/51

The Ptolemies last seen hauling rock from the quarry to the site of great Parthian kings new winter villa on the banks of the Nile

Companions Cup: Latest News....

Final: Pyrrhus (0) vs (4) Hannibal

Match 1 (Very Open): Ptolemaic (Greek) Lysimachos ( 58/54 ) v ( 32/60 ) Ptolemaic (Greek) IanIOW WIN Hannibal
Match 2 (Open): Pyrrhic(in Italy) Petran1978 ( 57/57 ) v ( 45/65 ) Pyrrhic(in Italy) Morbio WIN Hannibal
Match 3 (Mixed): Later Carthage (post 235 BC) TheKraken v Later Carthage (post 235 BC) Triarius
Match 4 (Open): Mid-Republican Roman Tofman04 ( 55/53 ) v ( 18/62 ) Mid-Republican Roman Steve-H8 WIN Hannibal
Match 5 (Very Open): Suren Indo-Parthian Hidde ( 63/61 ) v ( 34/71 ) Suren Indo-Parthian Ericdoman1 WIN Hannibal


3rd/4th Play-Off: Caesar (1) vs (1) Alexander

Match 1 (Very Open): Mid-Republican Roman Blathergut ( 35/54 ) vs ( 60/59 ) Ptolemaic (Greek) Davouthojo WIN Caesar
Match 2 (Open): Pyrrhic ( in Italy) BatesMotel v Later Carthage (post 235 BC) Pantherboy
Match 3 (Mixed): Later Carthage Deeter v Mid-Republican Roman IanDavidSmith
Match 4 (Open): Ptolemaic (Greek) Deadtorius ( 68/51 ) v ( 29/73 ) Indo-Suren Parthian Cheahn WIN Alexander
Match 5 (Very Open): Indo-Suren Parthian TheGrayMouser v Pyrrhic (in Italy) Claymore


Any news of other battles? Something must be happening, a few lines will do....

The parthians shot so many arrows into the sky that the sun was blocked out and we were forced to fight in darkness. The armies of the Ptolemies were forced to feel their way towards the enemy, not an easy feat when you carry a 16' long spear. Try as hard as we did, we only felt the enemy presence after they had ducked under our pike points and were stabbing my troops in their guts.
As a last great act of defiance we did attempt to sack the Parthian camp in a desperate search for candles so we could light the darkness, but it was too late. Not a great army to be facing mass bows and running away types...

deadtorius wrote:The parthians shot so many arrows into the sky that the sun was blocked out and we were forced to fight in darkness. The armies of the Ptolemies were forced to feel their way towards the enemy, not an easy feat when you carry a 16' long spear. Try as hard as we did, we only felt the enemy presence after they had ducked under our pike points and were stabbing my troops in their guts.
As a last great act of defiance we did attempt to sack the Parthian camp in a desperate search for candles so we could light the darkness, but it was too late. Not a great army to be facing mass bows and running away types...

An interesting summary. It will be interesting to see if TGM causes a blackout versus the Pyrrhic army

No, the only blackout is the shadow caused by the wall of pikes advancing toward me on a constricted map

TheGrayMouser wrote:No, the only blackout is the shadow caused by the wall of pikes advancing toward me on a constricted map

Take a screen shot!

If you don't have somewhere to host it, let me know. You could send to me and i'll post.

But then he might see my hidden reserve of panzers!!

Actually i couldnt take a pic if i wanted since you cant peek into a game when its the other players turn and Claymore appears to be biking across the outback at this time.

Hello

My game is at his third round
i'm waiting for my partner !!!

bye

thekraken wrote:Hello

My game is at his third round
i'm waiting for my partner !!!

bye

Triarius wrote this in the Slith Tournament thread:
"Iain and possible opponents - apologies I joined the tournament but now have to be away until the 19th March - FoG games not possible."

Hello

My game is at his third round
i'm waiting for my partner !!!

bye

Come on brave warrior and give Europe at least one point to save our honour so rudely shaken by the Hannibalic generals!

TheGrayMouser wrote:But then he might see my hidden reserve of panzers!!

Actually i couldnt take a pic if i wanted since you cant peek into a game when its the other players turn and Claymore appears to be biking across the outback at this time.

I'm back, if a little dusty after the mandatory croc wrestling. As to your panzer reserve .... I see 4 groups of metal beasts. Do you have more?

claymore wrote:

TheGrayMouser wrote:But then he might see my hidden reserve of panzers!!

Actually i couldnt take a pic if i wanted since you cant peek into a game when its the other players turn and Claymore appears to be biking across the outback at this time.

I'm back, if a little dusty after the mandatory croc wrestling. As to your panzer reserve .... I see 4 groups of metal beasts. Do you have more?

Those are the faux ones , similiar to the mock blow up doll tanks the aliies had in Britain prior to D-Day:)

hidde wrote:

thekraken wrote:Hello

My game is at his third round
i'm waiting for my partner !!!

bye

Triarius wrote this in the Slith Tournament thread:
"Iain and possible opponents - apologies I joined the tournament but now have to be away until the 19th March - FoG games not possible."

Well I got back yesterday and thekraken and I had a real ding-dong battle.
It was on the map with the scrub and broken ground dotted hill one side of the map and open ground on the other.
We both went for Syracusan allies but the kraken took HF with swarms of LF and I took MF with maximum armoured and prtoected cavalry. This made the break points 65 for me and 82 for the kraken.
My cav and lights were in the open ground vs the krakens swarms of lights our infantry faced off in the hills. My MF having the advantage over his heavies on the scrub covered hills and steep slopes where we started fighting but as they kept pursuing into open ground (bloody follow ups) they kept getting cut up by the krakens HF. Both of us were very canny in avoiding rout throughs so it became tit for tat on the hills as MF won on steep slopes and scrub hexes then lost on open ground.
On the open flank my cav/LF mix herded and beat his LF/LC mix for as long as they could catch them and the UK Carthaginians made up the difference in points - 17 more had been needed. Catching became difficult as his units routed away and mine pursued.

So how did it end.
Well with only one combat left in my turn the score was kraken 85/82 and Triarius 64/65.

That one combat was, for me, a fragmented mercenary scutari unit, now in open ground, but directly adjacent to our inspired general attacking his Liby-Phoenician armoured cav C-in-C unit which had already been attacked from two other hex-sides was below 75% strength but still steady.

So what do you think - did it finish
UK 65/65 and Europe 85/82 - Draw
or
UK 64/65 and Europe 85/82 - UK win ?

A great game whatever - will tell you the result later

I'm sure thekraken saved Europe's honour!

Triarius wrote:

hidde wrote:

thekraken wrote:Hello

My game is at his third round
i'm waiting for my partner !!!

bye

Triarius wrote this in the Slith Tournament thread:
"Iain and possible opponents - apologies I joined the tournament but now have to be away until the 19th March - FoG games not possible."

Well I got back yesterday and thekraken and I had a real ding-dong battle.
It was on the map with the scrub and broken ground dotted hill one side of the map and open ground on the other.
We both went for Syracusan allies but the kraken took HF with swarms of LF and I took MF with maximum armoured and prtoected cavalry. This made the break points 65 for me and 82 for the kraken.
My cav and lights were in the open ground vs the krakens swarms of lights our infantry faced off in the hills. My MF having the advantage over his heavies on the scrub covered hills and steep slopes where we started fighting but as they kept pursuing into open ground (bloody follow ups) they kept getting cut up by the krakens HF. Both of us were very canny in avoiding rout throughs so it became tit for tat on the hills as MF won on steep slopes and scrub hexes then lost on open ground.
On the open flank my cav/LF mix herded and beat his LF/LC mix for as long as they could catch them and the UK Carthaginians made up the difference in points - 17 more had been needed. Catching became difficult as his units routed away and mine pursued.

So how did it end.
Well with only one combat left in my turn the score was kraken 85/82 and Triarius 64/65.

That one combat was, for me, a fragmented mercenary scutari unit, now in open ground, but directly adjacent to our inspired general attacking his Liby-Phoenician armoured cav C-in-C unit which had already been attacked from two other hex-sides was below 75% strength but still steady.

So what do you think - did it finish
UK 65/65 and Europe 85/82 - Draw
or
UK 64/65 and Europe 85/82 - UK win ?

A great game whatever - will tell you the result later

LOL - Teaser!

Any news on the remaining 3 matches from the 3rd / 4th play off?


I'm hoping that we can wrap this up and publish the final positions before the end of March.

In the next few days I'll post the details of the April-May competition. It will be similar format but with different armies and terrain mixes. Each captain may want to liaise with their teams to see if any changes are required... maybe some people may want a break... maybe some new blood is needed... maybe you have a queue of people that want to join and you want to rotate. The choice will be yours.

More later...