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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