dim30: please let me know by tomorrow if you want to keep Thracian (Triballi) 350 BC-46 AD. Otherwise, you'll switch to Spanish (Celtiberian) 300-10 BC.
Hi Kronenblatt. I would like to keep Thracians for next game. Thank.
3. Karvon Sarmatian 350 BC - 24 AD (165) defeated 4. SawyerK Spanish (Lusitanian) 300-10 BC (165) 47-19
The armies met on a wood bound plain; several large patches of wood ran from my right corner to the just short of the center on my side of the field. On the Spanish side, his left flank was secured by a large forest and his right by several small woods. Furthermore, a couple of large rough patches lay before these woods on his right providing a fairly protected open space between them. Between the two armies, a small rough hill lay on my far left and a large patch of rough fell in about the center, a bit beyond some of the woods on my side of the field.
I fully expected him to deploy more to his right and make a grab for the small hill with his superior mix of light and medium foot. My plan was to deploy well forward on my left all my light foot and horse, closely supported by lancers and isolate and destroy whatever he dispatched there and then deal with his other troops, probably by enveloping around his right.
As I expected, he deployed a force of MF supported by lights to seize the hill. He placed a number of warbands supported by MF in the area between the rough patches, screening that with light foot. On his left he had most of his LH screening the open area off his flank.
I pressed forward aggressively on my left with my own lights supported by lancers. We pinned a few of his lights with our own then killed them with the lancers. He did reach and secure the hill before us though and we encircled and began barraging his surviving lights and the MF with our superior number of skirmishers. Meanwhile in the center, my lancers swept forward towards to face off vs his awaiting warbands and MF On the right, a mix of my lights deployed into the center rough area and fended off probes by his LH division.
The battle for the hill was a protracted affair, we wiped out all his LF and about half of his MF with our LF encircling and peppering the last two MF with missiles, keeping them pinned with lancers. The remaining left flank lancers pursued the broken Spanish and slowly herded them off the field, then wheeled to threaten the enemy right and rear. Our lancers began launching charges in the center against his infantry in the open between the rough patches. Most of these charges predictably bounced, but here and there we disrupted and fragmented troops and his line began to break up. He launched some charges out the neighboring rough, some of which ended badly and resulting in a few more disruptions and fragmentations. A couple of lancers charged through gaps in the line in pursuing lights and got trapped between his reserves and the front line. A pair of our left wing lancers worked around his right and began threatening his rear.
While we lost a few of our lancers who got encircled or flanked in the confusing melee, as his line got more and more broken up, his losses piled up faster to the point where his army finally collapsed.
So we swap armies.
The final scene
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9. klayeckles Kyrenean Greek 321-276 BC (115) DEFEATS 6. Aetius39 Lysimachid 320-281 BC (140) 50 TO 24
an outstanding and unique battle with a battlefield dominated by a steep hill in the center. The Greeks managed to populate the hill first with a swarm of javelin men. The successor army sent some of its better equipped MF to take the hill, but failed initially, but meanwhile moved pike and hoplites past the hill to threaten the raw hoplites of the Kyreneans. the untested hoplites took refuge on the steep hill, hiding behind the javelin skirmishers for the rest of the day...but their presence constantly threatened the Lysimachids wing. this broke the battlefield into 3 distinct sub battles, with the successors ripping up the greek right wing. The greek left was a stalemate for much of the battle, as the successors perched on a gentle hill. But in the center, the steep hill festered in the lysimachid line, leading to some minor local advantages for the greeks...eventually a hole formed and the greeks poured through, leading to a swift collapse of the successors lined up defending the gentle hill.
