Slitherine

I played the Phil's italian ostrogotic army against pergams. Table was pretty bare. I succesfully places the river and the road. i deployed my cavalry on my right and skirmishers in teh center and on my left. My opponent placed his heavy infantery (big pique block and galatians) on his right, which i was so happy. I said to myself, this guys will never be where the battle will take place. His cavalry was in the middle.




after one turn, his skirmishers rushed forward very confident in the superiority of the cretans with commanders versus the ostrogoth bowmen. But....







he lost the missile pre battle! His cretans where now in danger of a charge. They choose to evade and.... got caught in the back and routed. U can also see below the dice for killing the general



meanwhile, my flank marsh was waiting

pergamens javekliners charged and i evaded .

Those javeliners where now in a trap



on my right my cavalery where progressing slowly


on my left my huns did catch the attention of the piques. Hourra i would play with them all the game

the pique-hunic balad:

my flank marsh was still not arriving!!! i used beer to call for it

far view at that point


clashes of heavies were close

domblas wrote: my flank marsh was still not arriving!!! i used beer to call for it

If it was my Ostrogoths they would arrive next bound

magically when my cavalry breaks off, it comes in overlap position! !!!



at 4 BG against 3 BG of same quality, cavalry battle turned in my favor

the flank marsh arrived when the victory was mine.

fogly urs

last week i played the revenge, and i lost (but didn't take picts of that shame!!!)

philqw78 wrote:

domblas wrote: my flank marsh was still not arriving!!! i used beer to call for it

If it was my Ostrogoths they would arrive next bound

mine were sobber they took their time

Very nice report: I am glad you finally made it after so many attempts! Regarding the battle, I would recommend always to get close to historical deployments. I think that the main Pergamene problem, as you mentioned, seems to be the deployment of such a clashing force of pikemen where they were useless. Making them playing around was a great idea, especially with light cavalry! Well done! I am looking forward to read your next reports!

Gotta support the pike men better than that ! not too suprised the horseys won though