Post by diades on Jun 28, 2020 16:02:11 GMT
"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been"
Cao Cao must be stopped, he has become too powerful with the Wei in the North. I Liu Bei will defend the freedom of the Shu in the South.
The Wei army has been drawn up in a line of alternating halberdiers and crossbows between a mighty edifice on the left and a war wagon parked by a large wood on the right. Behind wait the Wei cavalry, with tribal light horse behind the wood, screened by a large area of scrub, and Psiloi in the near edge of the wood.
I have brought the Shu to the left of a large set of rice fields, effectively facing the wood. My tribesmen lurk in the paddies. My bolt throwers are anchored by the paddies. Outside them, our own massed crossbows, with my escort mounted behind them, and spearmen and Psiloi to their left. Our own halberdiers wait in reserve.
Both armies take time wheeling and jockeying to face each other between the wood and the rice paddies. Cao Cao's Wei are more efficient. Our tribesmen are threatened in the rice paddies, the crossbows open fire on my bolt throwers still manoeuvring, whilst our halberdiers do their best to race forward and provide a screen. Meanwhile the Wei mounted have moved to our side of the woods. We have despatched spear and Psiloi to tackle the enemy Psiloi in the woods and are lining up our crossbows to keep the horsemen at bay.
Enemy spear aided by a unit of light horse, who raced between the closing infantry lines just in time, enter the rice fields and destroy all of our tribesmen, whilst halberdiers from both sides clash in the centre. We score early successes against enemy crossbow on the right of our line, but our halberdiers in their eagerness to follow up onto more easy meat missile troops find themselves surrounded and destroyed.
Meanwhile, whilst the heavy infantry continue to to and fro, our Psiloi defeat their opposite numbers in the woods, the enemy mounted charge our crossbows and lose an element in the process, the battle is in the balance. Finally weight of numbers in the centre tells and a unit of our heavy infantry caves in.
A narrow defeat, we will regroup to fight again!
Cao Cao must be stopped, he has become too powerful with the Wei in the North. I Liu Bei will defend the freedom of the Shu in the South.
The Wei army has been drawn up in a line of alternating halberdiers and crossbows between a mighty edifice on the left and a war wagon parked by a large wood on the right. Behind wait the Wei cavalry, with tribal light horse behind the wood, screened by a large area of scrub, and Psiloi in the near edge of the wood.
I have brought the Shu to the left of a large set of rice fields, effectively facing the wood. My tribesmen lurk in the paddies. My bolt throwers are anchored by the paddies. Outside them, our own massed crossbows, with my escort mounted behind them, and spearmen and Psiloi to their left. Our own halberdiers wait in reserve.
Both armies take time wheeling and jockeying to face each other between the wood and the rice paddies. Cao Cao's Wei are more efficient. Our tribesmen are threatened in the rice paddies, the crossbows open fire on my bolt throwers still manoeuvring, whilst our halberdiers do their best to race forward and provide a screen. Meanwhile the Wei mounted have moved to our side of the woods. We have despatched spear and Psiloi to tackle the enemy Psiloi in the woods and are lining up our crossbows to keep the horsemen at bay.
Enemy spear aided by a unit of light horse, who raced between the closing infantry lines just in time, enter the rice fields and destroy all of our tribesmen, whilst halberdiers from both sides clash in the centre. We score early successes against enemy crossbow on the right of our line, but our halberdiers in their eagerness to follow up onto more easy meat missile troops find themselves surrounded and destroyed.
Meanwhile, whilst the heavy infantry continue to to and fro, our Psiloi defeat their opposite numbers in the woods, the enemy mounted charge our crossbows and lose an element in the process, the battle is in the balance. Finally weight of numbers in the centre tells and a unit of our heavy infantry caves in.
A narrow defeat, we will regroup to fight again!