Battle of not-Gaugamela

[FierceKitty]

Plutarch's life of Alexander is a good read.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plutarch%27s_Lives_(Clough)/Life_of_Alexander

[FierceKitty]

Rematch today.

[FierceKitty]

Great and good is Ahura-Mazda!

[d_Guy]

As is Azor Ahai.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Great and good is Ahura-Mazda!

Means all EAP battles were well illuminated, have a god who is a light bulb.

IanS

[FierceKitty]

Persian chariots for once do something; an off-table flank march in just the right place. Note the prodromoi on the dune were taken in flank, though they've turned in disorder.

[FierceKitty]

I've been warning Lee that her refused flank tactics were going to get her into trouble if she didn't keep a bit of a reserve....

In fairness, she had lousy control rolls and some of her support troops didn't see much action. On the other hand, the constant drizzle crippled my archery.

[FierceKitty]

The Macedonian centre was more successful (though by the time this picture was taken Alexander and the Hetairoi were out of it). Darius is rallying the guards near the rear (they rallied, but did little more in the game), and the phalanx that broke them is trying a repeat trick, turning the flank of the second regiment. My Indian archers charged the Agrianian peltasts, but these evaded and caused unwelcome casualties with javelins as they ran. A small price to pay (the loss of three out of five Skythian auxilliary regiments and Prince Viljarides was more painful). Both armies made it through their first morale check (Lee seems to have noticed that an occupied built-up area boosts an army's staying power), but the second was too much for the Europeans.

[paulr]