Battle of not-Gaugamela

Started by FierceKitty, 29 May 2019, 04:01:51 AM

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Since the little lady fancies herself as a Siamese Alexander....
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Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 May 2019, 04:01:51 AM
Since the little lady fancies herself as a Siamese Alexander....
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FierceKitty

We're just setting up. Be patient, gentlemen and others, there will be news anon.
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Leman

I'm assuming the not-  is so that the Macedonian /Greek government doesn't come a-knocking for royalties (not to mention a Fatwa from Iran).
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FierceKitty

You've got the general idea.

Casualties so far: Persians: 1 element Greek hoplite mercs; Macedonians: 1 element thureophoroi

Alarmingly, there are signs of treachery among the Arabs and Egyptians....
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FierceKitty

The beginning.
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29 May 2019, 03:37:48 PM #8 Last Edit: 29 May 2019, 03:39:41 PM by FierceKitty
Lee decided Alexander was tired of leading the Hetairoi, and sent him in against Darius and the Persian Guards at the head of the Thessalians. It was a long fight, but favoured us in the end. Arachosians skirmishing to keep the phalanx busy a bit further on. Also note the Arabs, who got a shaky loyalty result early on, and never returned to our control, just sitting there cheering indiscriminately and selling everyone dubious souvenirs.
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FierceKitty

My main attack was on the right too. Coordination was imperfect, but there were enough units to surround the Hellenistic forces and win the battle. Bottom right - Agrianian peltasts misunderstood a withdrawal and fled.
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FierceKitty

The centre, in close up. In fact, there were quite a lot of hoplites and phalangites banging shields, with some Persian infantry predicably getting knocked over by the phalanxes quite early on. Happily, a Persian army seldom runs out of reserves.
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FierceKitty

A better impression of the main crunch in the middle. The Paphlagonian levies coming out of the Greek colonial town were flank attacked by the phalanx in the picture, but had some lucky rolls and were not broken; for Persian levies, that counts as a victory. Just beyond the treacherous Arabs, some Scythian heavy horse were broken through by their own lights, then charged by another phalanx. They held on, but with over 50% losses.
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Another view of the infantry scrap in the middle.
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Techno

You beat Robert E ?

She's probably just feeling sorry, for you. ;)

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Quote from: Techno on 29 May 2019, 04:24:06 PM


She's probably just feeling sorry, for you. ;)


That's what she claims.
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