Slitherine

Division D

Aeneas Stator (Parthian) defeats Blagrot (Jewish Revolt) 60% vs 39%

Division C

DanZanzibar (Samnite) defeats GDod (Thracian) 46-21

Division E

SawyerK with the Picts and Anglo Saxons challenges Olddog52 leading the Dacians and Samartians.

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Division C

SawyerK with the Spartans and Roman allies challenges Rexhurley leading the Spanish Sertorius army.

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Div B

Morat (Sarmatians/Germans) challenges

IMC - Jewish Revolt 66-135 AD

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Najanaja - Roman 24 BC–196 AD with German Foot Tribe 105 BC-259 AD allies

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Division D

Kroche (Chinese (Jin) 266-316AD) defeated LunarFoxx (3 Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD) 61-53

Jin managed to win the battle of multiple cohesion drops. GG to LunarFoxx!

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Division B

Captainwaltersavage - Portuguese 1200-1319 AD defeats Morat - German (Imperial) 1200-1319 AD 62:40

Faced with a solid line of crossbows spears and dismounted knights supported by mounted crossbows and mounted knights, the Portuguese decided to retire to a hill and hide behind some rough ground. Realising this was unlikely to lead to any kind of victory I ventured out and engaged in a swirling cavalry battle on the right flank that managed to occupy a large part of the German forces. My foot warriors then managed to contend with the remaining Germans with a great deal of success. Sadly for the Portuguese their cavalry was decimated making for a very long and challenging battle. The Germans also proved to be exceptionally good at rallying. Luckily my light cavalry managed to return to the battle in sufficient time to break some fragmented units and to interfere with the German approaching for the final showdown. The battle finally ended just before night fell. A great game to end my High Medieval campaign. Thanks to Morat for the tremendous challenge.

Division A

Stew101 - Achaemenid Persian 480-461 BC with Greek 680-461 BC allies beat nyczar - Roman 199-106 BC with Pergamene 262-191 BC allies 51-19.

This was finally a map that really helped the Persians. Lots of reasonably sized hills, with a good spattering of rough.
The Persians were able to move from feature to feature, whilst the Romans withdrew into an increasingly smaller area.
The Romans suffered casualties on both flanks and their brave velites were eventually overwhelmed.
The battle stemmed on whether the inevitable Roman heavy infantry attack would sweep the field, or would the Persian attrition tactics win the day.

Nyczar's counter attack was indeed well timed and would I think have turned the game, but for two factors.
1. The Persian Immortals held their hill despite Sparabara collapsing all around them.
2. And the heroes of the day - a unit of ordinary bowmen. These fought it out in a wood, with a fragged unit of scutarii and then two units of legionaires. They never broke and held long enough for the Roman units to be charged in the rear by fresh hoplite units.

Well played Nyczar, you were very unlucky not to get more from this game.
Regards Stew.

Div C

Giacofa93 - Viking (Ireland) 900-1049 AD with Irish 900-1049 AD allies
challenges:

Morat - Frankish 751-857 AD with Viking 790-879 AD allies (1200)
paulmcneil - Rus 960-1053 AD with Bulgar (Danube) 852-1018 AD allies (1600)

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Division E

Badger73 (Carthaginian [Hannibal in Italy] 216-203 BC} beat deeter (Gallic 300-101 BC) 58-33

Division D

gamercb (Arab (City) 300-633 AD) challenges FireknightBarcelona (Roman 379-424 AD)

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Div B

Karvon - Dailami 928-1055 AD challenges...

Challenge1 - Andalusian 756-1049 AD

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Div C

Karvon - Tuareg 950-1500 AD challenges

Kroche - German (South East) 1200-1319 AD

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Division C

BobGanoush(Bithynian with Galatian allies) defeats rexhurley(Sertorious Spanish) by opponent's concession 31-17

Division C

BobGanoush (Abbasid with Syrian allies) defeats snooky51 (Anglo-Saxon) 62-44

Division F

DirtyMark - Macedonian 328-321 BC defeated LunarFoxx - Graeco-Bactrian 250-130 BC (1600) 61-41

Graeco-Bactrian fielded a mainly Cavalry and elephant force with some pike men. The battle divided into two halves. Macedonian cavalry on one side of the battle was overwhelmed but pike phalanx came to their aid. On the other side of the battlefield, Macedonian phalanxes met a force of Graeco-Bactrian pike men, which they defeated. Graeco-Bactrian Elephants avoided the Macedonian light infantry and crashed into the Macedonian Cavalry and things looked very bleak for the Macedonians. The Macedonian pike men held their ground and formed square where necessary. The valiant Graeco-Bactrian commander had his cavalry and elephants charged diretly into these formations, instead of looking for vulnerable flanks and were defeated.

Division B

paulmcneil (Armenian) beat Warg1 (Papal) 57:32

Division F

Vadim84 (Andalous) defeats frederic02 (Indian) 62-55

Very tough battle! One more round and I was gone due to the sudden resurrection of a very fierce elephant. Thanks for the game!

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