Slitherine

Just finished playing a game against my mate Geoff.


Well, things in the early battle went Geoff's way. Not as well as he'd expect or hoped, but enough that I thought he had the battle won.

Then, the turning point of the battle.

He impacted with some Spanish Medium Infantry Impact Foot into a shieldwall of Vikings.

On impact he gets an overwhealming victory against me. Something like 5 hits to 2. I lost a base and went disrupted. I'm thinking 'this could be the end of the battle'.

Then, melee.

I (with 7 original dice down to 5 for disrupted - one of which was disadvantaged) roll 5 hits. Geoff, well, Geoff rolled 1 hit. Oooh, this is not looking good. He rolls an 11 for cohesion and a 6 for death dice. Wow, well done. I'll try to kill your General - I roll an 11. He goes fragmented from seeing the general die. I guess they liked him heaps. The unit of Spartiates to their flank go Fragmented.

I now have 3 units in contact to my front who are fragmented. One from a previous fight that went my way and two that occurred right now. I have a unit of Huscarles off the flank of one of them ready to pounce and it's my turn. It would have been nice to rolle it off, but I would have impacted which would have forced one unit ot rout followed by tsts for them routing which may have (probably would have) ended in 3 unites routing.

We called it a night.

Talk about a massive turnaround!

Ian

That's one of the aspects of this game that makes it so enjoyable. Even at each of those points it could still go either way. I should enshrine my little 6pak of Dacian falxmen who simultaneously fought elephants, companions, and spears and won

Blathergut I think I will enshrine my pikes who had lost their entire 4th rank and still managed to break the romans who had caused those casualties in the first place

Of course then filled with overconfidence they failed a CMT not to charge ended up frontally engaged while the Dacians approached their open flank and proceeded to disrupt, which cost me the game.... but what a memorable game that one was....

I will always hold my Thracian Hv Weapon BG's in high regard.
Fighting in an extended melee where they were disrupted; having passed cohesions for friends breaking on each side of them, they managed to fend off a flank charge, break their frontal opponent and follow up into a second enemy BG breaking them on contact.
Sealed the game as a victory as all the surrounding enemy promptly fragmented as well.