Greece and Persia are finally at it. There are a lot of barbarians invading Greece (plus those Theban traitors!).
Ai! A few lucky shooting rolls, some weak reactions, and the Athenian left is routing! Spartans going head-to-head with Persian heavy horse in the centre, with no losses on either side yet.
Ouch. NOTHING worked!
Any chance of a photo or two as this is one of my favourite periods to game in?
I'm eating dinner; pix after that. Promise.
From the sound of that the Greeks are going to be way to busy dying to get any photos taken!
Pix, taken by the Persian commander. Here we see both armies marching onto the field (this wasn't a literal refight; no quarrels in Greek high command). Sorry it's skew.
Here the barbarian EHC should successfully be seeking annihilation from Spartans led by a king. You'd think.
The chariots charged through the Greek peltasts three times; by the rules they should have taken an average of 3.5 casualties to javelin fire en route. As it was, not a prick.
Plateans and Corinthians repel but fail to break some Immortals.
Thebans weren't deployed properly, and the Argives threw them back, but again without breaking them.
My right flank got tangled up. Thracians and Athenians beat off Medes and Saka rather effectively, but Cretans broke under Arab onslaught.
Blameless Ethiopians guarding the Persian camp.
All very nice sir
The wife is rather pleased with herself anyway.
Very nice pics!
Really like your spartans!
I'll like 'em more if they deliver the bacon at the rematch.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 21 February 2016, 12:41:42 PM
I'll like 'em more if they deliver the bacon at the rematch.
Bacon? are they bringing fire pigs next time?
Thanks for the photo's, that looks like a great game on a very big table.
Right. This evening, for one night only: The Revenge of the Greeks!
Persians have just smashed the Greeks a second time. How DOES one guard the flanks of a heavy infantry army against a cavalry horde? ~X(
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 February 2016, 12:19:59 PM
Persians have just smashed the Greeks a second time. How DOES one guard the flanks of a heavy infantry army against a cavalry horde? ~X(
Well,broken ground is best for that.
Would have been useful. Alas, they got an almost featureless plain today.
(From a tombstone on the battlefield)
If thou'rt at Lacedaemon, pause and say
Forgetful of their laws, we ran away.
Poetry? From Spartans? Shouldn't it be something pithy like the message sent after Cyzicus:
"Ships gone. Mindarus dead. Men starving. What next?"
:)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 February 2016, 01:17:09 PM
Would have been useful. Alas, they got an almost featureless plain today.
Hug the table edge and reinforce your open flank?
The rules involve some weighty penalties to discourage using the edges as terrain.
I was parodying a Spartan verse which actually IS on a tombstone at Thermopylae. The Spartans weren't really what Athenian historians try to make them.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 February 2016, 02:36:29 PM
The rules involve some weighty penalties to discourage using the edges as terrain.
I was parodying a Spartan verse which actually IS on a tombstone at Thermopylae. The Spartans weren't really what Athenian historians try to make them.
I recognised the parody of Simonides, my point was that Simonides was not a Spartan and Lacadaemonian communications were noted for being more .... laconic :)
Least you are getting the morally correct result.
IanS
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 February 2016, 02:36:29 PM
The rules involve some weighty penalties to discourage using the edges as terrain.
Make your battle line less wide and keep some units in reserve to flank charge the flanking cavalry?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 February 2016, 12:19:59 PM
Persians have just smashed the Greeks a second time. How DOES one guard the flanks of a heavy infantry army against a cavalry horde? ~X(
Throw rocks? Worked for Montrose at Tippermuir. Sorry just wandered in from the 17th century.
Form in echelon with a unit stepped back on the flank? Or circle the wagons and form square?!
Tried the echelon bit. I think part of the problem is that the hoplite phalanx had less of a charge intimidation effect against the weaker Asian troops than it should have. A new rule has been put in place which may solve that.
I'll see how the Macedonians fare at Gaugemela today.