Jerusalem via Leeds Part 4 (photo-less)
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:54 pm
To make sense of this article, read Jerusalem via Leeds parts 1, 2 and 3 first, ideally in sequence 
After lunch and a quick tour of the Armouries (nice war elephant, impressive mongol cavalryman) it was time for the last game.
Game 4 was against Phil Lewis??™ Early Imperial Romans.
Phil was unlucky in that I??™d just been roughly handled by a Roman army and now had some ideas on how to play a Republican/ Early Imperial Roman. It meant??¦ that I had a plan. Or more precisely, I now had a better plan than my last one.
Without a working camera, and no batteries to be found in the Royal Armouries building, I??™ll keep my description brief.
I adopted a similar deployment to my previous 3 games ??“ spearmen in the centre, missiles & turcoploes on one wing, the Bedouin on the other. The knights were again in reserve.
Paul had his iron legionaries in the centre, in two lines, with light troops and auxilia on the flanks, mainly in broken ground. A unit of cavalry was held in reserve.
I managed to attack the Roman support troops over the course of the game, whilst holding back with the spearmen. I couldn??™t delay contact with the legionaries for too long, but by the time they engaged my spearmen I was making reasonable inroads into the Roman support troops. My spearmen eventually started to crumble after putting up a spirited resistance, but by then I??™d destroyed enough support troops to get the game.
So, two wins, two losses. All the games proceeded at a quick pace, all were enjoyable and all had a result. Particularly notable was the way that people unfamiliar with the rules could play a reasonable game. You don??™t need to be ???technically familiar??? with the rules to play a decent game.
After lunch and a quick tour of the Armouries (nice war elephant, impressive mongol cavalryman) it was time for the last game.
Game 4 was against Phil Lewis??™ Early Imperial Romans.
Phil was unlucky in that I??™d just been roughly handled by a Roman army and now had some ideas on how to play a Republican/ Early Imperial Roman. It meant??¦ that I had a plan. Or more precisely, I now had a better plan than my last one.
Without a working camera, and no batteries to be found in the Royal Armouries building, I??™ll keep my description brief.
I adopted a similar deployment to my previous 3 games ??“ spearmen in the centre, missiles & turcoploes on one wing, the Bedouin on the other. The knights were again in reserve.
Paul had his iron legionaries in the centre, in two lines, with light troops and auxilia on the flanks, mainly in broken ground. A unit of cavalry was held in reserve.
I managed to attack the Roman support troops over the course of the game, whilst holding back with the spearmen. I couldn??™t delay contact with the legionaries for too long, but by the time they engaged my spearmen I was making reasonable inroads into the Roman support troops. My spearmen eventually started to crumble after putting up a spirited resistance, but by then I??™d destroyed enough support troops to get the game.
So, two wins, two losses. All the games proceeded at a quick pace, all were enjoyable and all had a result. Particularly notable was the way that people unfamiliar with the rules could play a reasonable game. You don??™t need to be ???technically familiar??? with the rules to play a decent game.
