Early Germans vs Principate Romans
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:43 am
650 points. Romans used one of Nik G's lists off his website. Germans were extrapolated off of the Gaullic list.
Germans
3 FC, 2 TC's
6 BGs of warriors 8-10 stands, heavy foot, average, protected all impact foot.
1 BG of javelin men 10 stands, average unprotected javelins
1 BG of cavalry, 6 stands average protected, light spear swords men
Romans
3 TC's
3 BG's of Legionarries, superior, sk swordsmen, armored 4 stands each
LF archers to support them. 6 stands bow superior
2 BG's of auxilia. average, armored, light spear swordsmen 6 stands each
2 BG's of poor unprotected slingers.
1BG of Equites Illyricani average, unprotected, javelins 4 stands
1BG of Equites sagittarii average, unprotected, bow 4 stands
1BG of Equites, average, armored, light spear, swordsmen 4 stands
1BG of Clibinarii, superior, heavily armored, lancers, swordsmen
Romans lost the initiative. We were fighting in woodlands, and Roman left flank ended up with a river on it, a gentle hill in the German right flank zone towards the center, behind it a wood extending to the board edge, and two more woods in a line from that wood to the Roman right flank.
Roman step put the Clibinarii on the left flank in a single line, the Equites, and covered to the front by the horse archers.
Legions in a line in the center, the Auxilia in a line to the right of the legions, and the javelin armed light horse just in front of the slingers piled up in the wood on the Roman left flank.
Roman camp was behind the Roman center, the German camp was on the German Right by the river.
German set up was badly thrown off by all the woods. the German lights tried an ambush in the center woods, it didn't work out. One of the Roman auxilia BGs charged, chased through the woods out the other side and eventually caught them in the open (down two, up two it just happens sometimes) and ran them off the table.
2 German warbands and a general on the German left chased off the Roman light cavalry, but were then stopped short of the right flank wood, where the other Roman auxilia group and the slingers taunted them from the woods, disrupting the Germans at one point with massed sling stones. The Germans made all their CMT tests to keep from from going sponno into the woods.
on the Roman left, the Roman cavalry advanced quickly, the horse archers ineffectually peppering a warband and being dusted off by a charge. The Roman Clibanarii, then charged in broke into the warband, but did not break them, broke off, charged again, and then finally broke the warband with some wicked big dice, and pursued them back into the German camp which was promptly burnt.
The Roman regular cavalry gained the top of the hill and charged a warband on the other side of it that had just come out of the wood behind the hill, disrupted them and stayed stuck in. The German cavarly charged them in the flank and broke them, chasing the Roman cavalry back across the field getting shot at by both the horse archers and the javelin armed cavalry (that had by this time ridden over from the Roman right flank). The shoots was very ineffectual.
In the center, two of the Roman legion BGs were able to charge one of the German warbands and eventually broke them after 3 or 4 turns of hard fighting. The Roman and German C-in-C's intervened, the Roman C-in-C getting a spear through the gullet for his trouble, but the legions carried on without him. The warband broke, and the Roman pursuit caught another in the flank (which had been trying to come around one end of the fight). If we did it right, and we're not sure we did, that warband went down a cohesion level for getting hit in the flank, and then it it rolled a 3 on its cohesion test for its friend routing with in 3 MU's. It broke, and the German army routed.
End result, the Roman lose on BG of cavalry, the Germans two BG's of warband, 1 BG of lights, and had their camp sacked.
The light archers supporting the Romans both added a die or two and some bulk to the Roman legionnaire BG's and were pretty crucial.
Germans
3 FC, 2 TC's
6 BGs of warriors 8-10 stands, heavy foot, average, protected all impact foot.
1 BG of javelin men 10 stands, average unprotected javelins
1 BG of cavalry, 6 stands average protected, light spear swords men
Romans
3 TC's
3 BG's of Legionarries, superior, sk swordsmen, armored 4 stands each
LF archers to support them. 6 stands bow superior
2 BG's of auxilia. average, armored, light spear swordsmen 6 stands each
2 BG's of poor unprotected slingers.
1BG of Equites Illyricani average, unprotected, javelins 4 stands
1BG of Equites sagittarii average, unprotected, bow 4 stands
1BG of Equites, average, armored, light spear, swordsmen 4 stands
1BG of Clibinarii, superior, heavily armored, lancers, swordsmen
Romans lost the initiative. We were fighting in woodlands, and Roman left flank ended up with a river on it, a gentle hill in the German right flank zone towards the center, behind it a wood extending to the board edge, and two more woods in a line from that wood to the Roman right flank.
Roman step put the Clibinarii on the left flank in a single line, the Equites, and covered to the front by the horse archers.
Legions in a line in the center, the Auxilia in a line to the right of the legions, and the javelin armed light horse just in front of the slingers piled up in the wood on the Roman left flank.
Roman camp was behind the Roman center, the German camp was on the German Right by the river.
German set up was badly thrown off by all the woods. the German lights tried an ambush in the center woods, it didn't work out. One of the Roman auxilia BGs charged, chased through the woods out the other side and eventually caught them in the open (down two, up two it just happens sometimes) and ran them off the table.
2 German warbands and a general on the German left chased off the Roman light cavalry, but were then stopped short of the right flank wood, where the other Roman auxilia group and the slingers taunted them from the woods, disrupting the Germans at one point with massed sling stones. The Germans made all their CMT tests to keep from from going sponno into the woods.
on the Roman left, the Roman cavalry advanced quickly, the horse archers ineffectually peppering a warband and being dusted off by a charge. The Roman Clibanarii, then charged in broke into the warband, but did not break them, broke off, charged again, and then finally broke the warband with some wicked big dice, and pursued them back into the German camp which was promptly burnt.
The Roman regular cavalry gained the top of the hill and charged a warband on the other side of it that had just come out of the wood behind the hill, disrupted them and stayed stuck in. The German cavarly charged them in the flank and broke them, chasing the Roman cavalry back across the field getting shot at by both the horse archers and the javelin armed cavalry (that had by this time ridden over from the Roman right flank). The shoots was very ineffectual.
In the center, two of the Roman legion BGs were able to charge one of the German warbands and eventually broke them after 3 or 4 turns of hard fighting. The Roman and German C-in-C's intervened, the Roman C-in-C getting a spear through the gullet for his trouble, but the legions carried on without him. The warband broke, and the Roman pursuit caught another in the flank (which had been trying to come around one end of the fight). If we did it right, and we're not sure we did, that warband went down a cohesion level for getting hit in the flank, and then it it rolled a 3 on its cohesion test for its friend routing with in 3 MU's. It broke, and the German army routed.
End result, the Roman lose on BG of cavalry, the Germans two BG's of warband, 1 BG of lights, and had their camp sacked.
The light archers supporting the Romans both added a die or two and some bulk to the Roman legionnaire BG's and were pretty crucial.
