Huns and Romans again.

[FierceKitty]

Thanks. It feels good not to be at the whim and mercy of a capricious and idiotic employer, and merely at the whim and mercy of a...oh, she's reading over my shoulder....an intelligent and cultivated and decent and attractive spouse.

[paulr]

 

Congratulations

[mmcv]

Thanks. It feels good not to be at the whim and mercy of a capricious and idiotic employer, and merely at the whim and mercy of a...oh, she's reading over my shoulder....an intelligent and cultivated and decent and attractive spouse.

You forgot understanding and forgiving and (usually) victorious...

Congrats!

[paulr]

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one mate

[FierceKitty]

Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[FierceKitty]

Today I'm playing the Romans.

[FierceKitty]

We've actually outscouted the Huns. That's most unusual.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

How ?

[FierceKitty]

We've caught them in a fairly rough and bosky area, so out LI have earned their rations today.

[FierceKitty]

German mercs broken on first contact by Ostrogoths.

[FierceKitty]

Fortunately, the legions held together well, and our cataphracts broke the Hunnic nobles and chased them and Attila off the field. Final result was an indecisive Roman victory. Frankish allies have their uses.

[FierceKitty]

The Romans got a bit of useful terrain; cavalry-proof scrubland which isolated a probing force of Hunnic LC; when the Frankish allies and the Roman lights nutcrackered these, it could go only one way.

[FierceKitty]

We had our bad luck too. The Alans were the right troops in the right place with the wrong dice, and the Ostrogoths crunched them up; while the Visigoths on the far right fell victim to Hunnic archery and numbers.

[FierceKitty]

The guards foot did well, however, pelting the hostile Franks with darts and cutting them up effectively with smallarms despite a dangerous Hun attack in their rear. This time Lee's dice let her down very badly. Also note cataphracts and Aetius seeing off the Hun nobles; Attila himself was taken in the pursuit, though it may be that Aetius would have chosen to release him.

[FierceKitty]

We were in the Netherlands a few months ago. I think Lee's learned something about lighting and composition from Dutch artists.

[FierceKitty]

Note extensive proxying in the Hunnic army. Gepids are Pendraken Picts, Alans are Copplestone Rohirrim, Huns are Pendraken Mongols, and Franks are largely Magister Militum dark ages axemen of some sort. Many of the Goths started life under other banners too.

[paulr]

Game 

Artistic photograph 

[FierceKitty]

And one more time. The Siamese person is getting really keen on Huns...a bit worrying, really...

[FierceKitty]

Halfway through round one; Aetius has been killed in a single combat, and King Widimer of the Ostrogoths has been transfixed with a catapult bolt.