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Polybian Roman vs Later Carthaginian

Page history last edited by Rob Brennan 15 years, 8 months ago

 400 pt game on Friday 12th today with my usual opponnent Stephen

using my Romans vs his Punic bunch

I defended with DH on my left and a fortuitous river om my right (DH

to Punic rear only other feature)

I had large cmd of Blade (16 elements) with 8 Velites PsS, 2 Triarii

SpS and 4 Iberian iAxS in centre with AG on right with 4 BdO 2 SpS 2

PsS 2 PsO (Cretans). The left flank (on the DH) was held by Iberian

Ally with 6 iAxS 4 iPsS 2 iLho and a iCvO AG. My Cic with 4 CvO was

in reserve. I used no baggage/camp. I allocated highest die to CIC

and lower to SG.

Punics had 3 Regular Cmds with 3 Elephants interspersed with WbO

with several Reg AxS, SpS and numerous Numidian PsS AxI and LhO and

about 10 CvO. A Numidian Ally was present with 3 Punic Generals and

a Reg Camp (ie Pip dump) which may not be kosher.

My narrow frontage and prescence of river/DH thankfully stopped his

LH from worrying my flanks (in fact his Lh took little part in

battle due to terrain)

Main attack (as expected)came from the Wb/El combo in centre.

I put my Cic & Cv in behind my Legions and Velites with full

intention of pushing them thru (as Reg Cv can interpenetrate the Bd

in Dbmm) to counter the El/WB but suffering a brain barf I

subsequently neglected to do this instead sticking my Velites into

close combat with opossing PsS with my Legions close behind (usual

unhelpful minimum Pips not aiding my decisions).

My Iberian allies fought well on flank holding up the Rg Ax/Sp and

some Cav and my Roman AG was also successful in thwarting Punic

Cv/Lh on my right.

Crunch in centre saw my Velites recoil behind the blades who then

were charged by Wb/El and suffered several QKs, on my following turn

I only managed a couple of QKs on WB (virtually meaningless as they

count only 1/3ME and were deployed 4 deep).

Next turn saw the Punic shock troops break my main Cmd (32ME) and

leave them only 3 ME from routing my Army (69ME).

A lucky Pip roll allowed me to keep the broken Cmd in situ and low

and behold my broken troops offered stout resistance (ie winning

several die rolls !!). However it was a transitory 'victory' as they

soon succumbed which of itself was not too bad (as already counting

lost) but on my right the game was decided by 3 Punic CvO vs 3 BdO

as two Cv recoiled but the third doubled opposing Bd (the Cv not

counting foot overlaps in their own turn) which combined with loss

of 2ME earlier from Iberian Cmd routed my Army.

Despite its one-sided nature this was still an enjoyable game and I

kick myself for not following my plan to engage the Wb/El with my

CvO which may have course made no difference given my penchant for

losing key die rolls :-)

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