Slitherine

Hi Richard,
Just a quick battle result. The early Kyreneans defeated the Egyptians in a really close slugfest, 39/36 (100%) Egypt, Kryreneans 36/38, (94.7%).
Great game, Danny!

Due to the God of Dice and to the fact that i choosed the terrain for both battles i was able to claim a victory over Ian.
My Indians 47% vs IMC's Kyreneans 100%
My Kyreneans 20% vs IMC's Indians 100%.
Thanks for the game Ian. It is always nice to meet you on the battlefield
I just realized that i cheated (but without to actually know it). Reading the rules again i saw that i had to use 6 HEAVY chariots/or scythed/or wagon. On my indian army i used 2 wagons and 4 LIGHT chariots. Knowing a little bit Ian, i am sure he realized it, but his courtesy prevent him from referring to it. So i am willing - and it is the right thing- to accept this pair of battles as a lose for me. Sorry Ian it was not on purpose.

NikiforosFokas wrote:Due to the God of Dice and to the fact that i choosed the terrain for both battles i was able to claim a victory over Ian.
My Indians 47% vs IMC's Kyreneans 100%
My Kyreneans 20% vs IMC's Indians 100%.
Thanks for the game Ian. It is always nice to meet you on the battlefield

Thanks Kostas. I was well beaten in both games. Well played. Must do better with these wooden rigs and horses it seems. IMC

Group B Result

iandavidsmith (Classical Indian 1) 36/48 (75%) beat MikeMarchant (Early Achaemenid Persian (Cyrus) 1) 29/29 (100%)

Both sides outflanked each other and got behind the lines , but the Indians where able to run away faster until
the Persian army finally broke , great close game.

Ta
Ian

Another close result in Group A
Edmund_Blackadder's Carthaginians 24/30 (80%) beat Ulysisgrunt's Egyptians 37/36.
Thanks for a really tight game with the result in the balance all the way through to the end

Sorry, didn't specify which army I'd be taking. I'll take the Early Carthaginian if Londo has no issues with taking Kyrenean Greek.

Jonathan4290 wrote:Sorry, didn't specify which army I'd be taking. I'll take the Early Carthaginian if Londo has no issues with taking Kyrenean Greek.

That's fine Jonathan, Londo said he didn't want the Carthaginians anyway.

For Londo, challenges up, pw for both: panda

Londo (Kyrene) 14/43 - Enakan (India) 38/35

Londo (India) 25/45 - Enakan (Kyrene) 49/43

The biggest lesson from these games - never put bullock carts (poor war wagons) anywhere near the enemy!

Good games Londo!

And I learned to take more units of Indians.....not just elephants with clowns dancing alongside! Small isn't better!

Two more close result from Group A
Edmund_Blackadder's Carthaginians 31/30 (100%) scraped a draw with allendeuce's Kyreneans 38/38.
Edmund_Blackadder's Kyreneans 24/30 (77%) recovered to beat allendeuce's Carthaginians 44/41.
My final challenge for Ulysisgrunt is up - password 'return'.

Two challenges are up for LordNytram. The password is Lordhere.

Here are the current standings in the groups, using a WDL format. The points are 1 for a win and 1/2 for a draw. F is casualty percentage inflicted and A is casualties received. Hopefully everyone has made a start on their games. Any questions/disputes/errors please let me know asap:

Group A P W D L F A GD Pts
Edmund_Blackadder 3 2 1 0 300 257 43 2.5
allendeuce 3 1 1 1 277 295 -18 1.5
Ulysisgrunt 2 0 0 2 175 200 -25 0

Group B P W D L F A GD Pts
iandavidsmith 1 1 0 0 100 75 25 1
FroggySteven 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MikeMarchant 1 0 0 1 75 100 -25 0

Group C P W D L F A GD Pts
NikiforosFokas 2 2 0 0 200 67 133 2
LordNytram 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
IMC 2 0 0 2 67 200 -133 0

Group D P W D L F A GD Pts
Londo 2 2 0 0 200 89 111 2
Jonathan4290 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Enakan 2 0 0 2 89 200 -111 0

LordNytram defeats NikiforosFokas in both mirror games. Both close and bloody.

LordNytram (Indian) 26/34 to NikiforosFokas (Persian) 32/31
LordNytram (Persian) 28/32 to NikiforosFokas (Indian) 44/41

LordNytram wrote:LordNytram defeats NikiforosFokas in both mirror games. Both close and bloody.

LordNytram (Indian) 26/34 to NikiforosFokas (Persian) 32/31
LordNytram (Persian) 28/32 to NikiforosFokas (Indian) 44/41

Well played Lord. Thanks for the game

I've started my games with Jon. As Early Carthaginians, I took, in the spirit of maximum chariotising, Libyan allies, and a total of 12 wheeled contraptions (6 heavies, 6 lights).

Beat that, cucks!

Londo wrote:I've started my games with Jon. As Early Carthaginians, I took, in the spirit of maximum chariotising, Libyan allies, and a total of 12 wheeled contraptions (6 heavies, 6 lights).

Beat that, cucks!

I applaud your spirit Londo, but the award currently goes to allendeuce who fielded 6 heavies and 9 lights in his Kyrenean army against me. The sound of squeaking axles was deafening! ANybody managed more than 6 heavies yet?

Edmund: there appears to be an inconsistency between your first few posts and the most recent few. Are we using the early or later Kyrenean list?

ATT: MikeMarchant

Reverse game challenge posted.

Early Achaemenid Persian (Cyrus) IDS vrs Classical Indian 1 MikeMarchant

password = reverse

Good Luck ,
Ian

Jonathan4290 wrote:Edmund: there appears to be an inconsistency between your first few posts and the most recent few. Are we using the early or later Kyrenean list?

Hi Jonathan, different people are using different versions to give more variety to the army choice. The army you were left with is 10. Early Carthaginian 2. Londo is using 11. Kyrenean Greek (Later)
Hope that helps