Slitherine

Division D

Spacemonkey76 (Phoenician) beat SawyerK (Babylonian) 60-57

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Spacemonkey76 (Babylonian) beat SawyerK (Phoenician) 60-48.

Both games very exciting and very, very close to the last turns.
Great games

Division E

Delbruck (Arab Bedouin) defeats olddog52 (Byzantine) 73-35.

A close game until the last couple of turns, when numbers overcame quality.

Division E

ilpars (Median) defeated gamercb (Persian) 57-31.

It was much more closer than the result. 1 Persian Immortal unit immediately fragmented in their first clash of spears which slowed down succesfull Persian infantry advance.
Thanks for the game gamercb. It was great fun.

Division B

dim30 (Roman) beat lydianed (Palmyran) 47-10

Lot's of arrows in the sky, but arab light cav are perfect to counter that. Thank for the game lydianed.

Division B

kraff (Saka 300 BC-50 AD with Seleucid 166-125 BC allies) drew with MorkinTheFree (Pontic 110-85 BC): 60-60

(2-2)

Division E

LunarFoxx - Byzantine (Italy) 1038-1039 AD (1200)

Challenges

Supervark - Kingdom of Sicily 1200-1266 AD with Italian (Ghibelline) allies 1200-1319 AD (1200) PW: Supervark
Tratmot - German (South East) 1155-1199 AD (1200) PW: Tratmot

PM's sent

Division D

LunarFoxx - Viking 900-1049 AD (1200)

Challenges

Spacemonkey76 - Dailami 928-1055 AD with Armenian allies 885-1045 AD (1600) PW: Spacemonkey76
Tratmot - Arab (Umayyad) 685-750 AD (1200) PW: Tratmot
ilpars - Turkish 600-1036 AD with Arab (Umayyad) 685-750 AD allies (1200) PW: ilpars
Barrold713 - Rus 960-1053 AD with Bulgar (Danube) 852-1018 AD allies (1600) PW: Barrold713

PM's sent

Division D for Determined

Barrold713 (Sword Brethren) defeats ulysisgrunt (Taureg) 44-15

This was a map made for my dudes as much of the battle area was enclosed so even my crossbowmen could melee against the mobs of camel lancers and win. I made use of every projectile I could fling and hit back against any weakened unit. Good game. In a different map I would have been much perforated by that many lancers

Cheers

BDH

Division F

ray552 (Galatian 62-25 BC with Roman 105-25 BC allies) defeats Sgt0gre (Indo-Parthian 60 BC-30 AD) 48-17

Swarms of Indo-Parthian light horse archers shot several warbands to pieces before the Galatian/Roman army could get into bad-breath range of the cataphracts, elephants and massed archers.

Thanks for the game.

OK, I need to go through the divisions and wrap this up now . . .

Classical Antiquity - everyone has passed.

Late Antiquity - LindsayCole has failed in Division E, but passes overall as he has had 3 results in the other section he has entered. Also, communicated quickly to say he had 3 LA matches in progress.

Early Middle Ages - everyone has passed.

Biblical - klayeckles has failed in Division A and bomber23 has failed in Division E, but both pass overall as they have played more matches than required in the other sections they have entered. Both communicated quickly.

High Middle Ages - Triarii has an exemption from the Time Control as he played in the Themed Event and nyczar has failed the test. nyczar has passed the test in Classical Antiquity and communicated quickly. So he is getting the "benefit of the doubt" this time and I have asked that he issues his own challenges in the early stages of the season in future. I will add something to this general effect in the Player's Guide for next season.

Themed Event - no problems at all.

So, overall, it is very good. There are going to be no enforced changes at this stage. The next check is in a fortnight where I require 3 completed matches in each section that you have entered. Thanks for all your replies to my enquiries and I apologise for not being able to respond to them all individually.

Division B

Morat (Visigoths) beat Morbio (Jewish Revolt) 41-14

Massed Visigoth assault on the left got cavalry around the flank and rear of the opposition, while a determined struggle on a low hill to the right saw the Visigoths just hold off their foes to allow the envelopment to work. Felt closer than the score suggests throughout.

Thanks to Morbio for a good game.

M.

Division C

Blagrot - Arab Conquest 638-684 AD beat Rob123 - British 600-1030 AD with Viking 790-899 AD allies 40% - 5%

A forest and a patch of rough ground limited the space the British could approach through and the quality of Arab spears began to tell, once the first British units broke the panic spiralled outwards quickly. Thanks for the game, the terrain was kind to me.

Edited because I can't type or count this morning apparently

Division C

Rob123 challenges deeter

Achaemenid Persian 553-546 BC v Median 626-550 BC (Fall of Mede 553-550 BC)

PW Median PM sent

Division B

devoncop - Bosporan 11 BC-375 AD with Roman 24 BC-196 AD allies beat rexhurley (Dacian 50BC to 88AD) by 60-37

Despite the attempts of the Dacian superior warbands to rescue the situation late on and in which endeavour they were having some success, the Bosporan Cavalry managed to take advantage of a largely clear battlefield (and some handy RNG) to win the day.

Thanks to Rex for a hard fought game.

Division A
Stew101 - Etruscan 330-280 BC with Gallic allies 300-101 BC challenges

Morbio - Samnite 355-272 BC
Geffalrus - Antigonid 320-301 BC with Greek 460-281 BC allies
klayeckles - Ptolemaic 55-30 BC with Roman 105-25 BC allies

Games are set up ready.
PW is Etruscan.
PM sent.

Division A

Aetius39 (Kingdom of Soissons) defeats desertedfox (Indians) 46-19

Once you get to the archers...^^ GG!

Division A

tyronec (Bosporan) defeats Cunningcairn (Roman) 64-48

Thanks for the game.

Division E

CaptainPunka ( Aragonese ) defeats Supervark ( Sicilian ) 54 - 27