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Post by Antoine on Nov 3, 2016 17:40:02 GMT
Following the discussion and the question of Timurilank on 3Wb, we played 4 games involving my Gauls (II.11) fielding 3Wb, a 3Wb Gen and a various amont of Cv depending on the terrain. The two first games were against the Celtiberians (II.39b) and their 3Bd army, the two others against later macedonians (II.35). 4 nice games, with 2 gaulish victories ! :cheers: I only took photos of the 2 games vs Macedonians 1st gamedeployement, Macedonians are the defenders The shock is approaching Yelling Gauls meet steady Macedonians The fast Gauls are flanking a phalanx... Destroying without mercy the bronze shields ! But the White Shields are pushing through, killing the Gaulish General ! The tribes being flanked, faltered and ran... 5 kills for Macedon (the genral counts double) against 2 for the gauls, Macedonian Victory !
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Post by Antoine on Nov 3, 2016 18:04:48 GMT
2nd gameThis time the Gaulish tribes are defending their Celtic ground ! The cunning Gaul Chieftain choose a terrain which won't allow easy manouever for the Macedonian phalanx, with 2 woods... The Greek general is pretty confident after the last battle where the discipline of his phalanx drew the barbarians back in their smelly hutts ! Deployement a rather long approach, due to 1's for the Gaulish PIPs, and caution from the Macedonian general The bloody melee starts ! The Chieftain leads a glorious charge and punch a hole threw the Greek frontline With no second rank support, the disaster is complete for the Greeks 4 kills for the Gauls against 1 for the Macedonians, great Victory !!
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Post by timurilank on Nov 3, 2016 22:41:45 GMT
Great looking battles played on a nice looking board. What a pity there were no photos of the Celtiberians vs. the Gallic.
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Post by Antoine on Nov 3, 2016 22:51:32 GMT
Great looking battles played on a nice looking board. What a pity there were no photos of the Celtiberians vs. the Gallic.
Next time I'll photograph the battle
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Post by Antoine on Nov 5, 2016 23:13:30 GMT
More games today ! Polybian romans tried to invade Gaul: Deployement The lack of PIPs gave way to a traditionnal clash of the main battlelines, 3Wb and Cv facing the republican legions (4Bd and Sp) THe battle is hard, each side losing men, the Gaul Chieftain leads from the front ranks while his roman counterpart studies carefully the operations from behind... In the end, the Triarii prevailed, as expected of such veterans, and the Tribes broke... 4 kills for the romans VS 3 for the Gauls: ROMA VICTOR !!
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Post by Antoine on Nov 5, 2016 23:32:17 GMT
Second clash between Rome and Gaul This time the area is at the edge of the forest Deployement This time the Gauls tried a new technique: small warbands columns, in order to force the legion to separate its battleline. Even if not destroyed, the 3Wb are recoiled combat after combat... ... Into the forest where the Hastati are not as easy in forest fighting as the Gaulish warriors ! This time both commanders commited to the fight, but is wasn't enough for Rome: 4 kills for the Gauls against 1: Gaul won't become a roman province today !
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Post by Antoine on Nov 5, 2016 23:48:33 GMT
Carthaginians found themselves facing a whole Gaulish tribe when they got out of the Pyrénées mountains ! Deployement Both generals where unsure of what to do (lousy PIPs...) After a lot of hesitations the Gaulish warriors charged the Lybian veterans and the big strange creature ! Their fury wiped out two stands of Lybians Then combats took ages, flanked troops managed to survive when all thought they were lost, especially the spanish scutarii on the flank The last Lybians are torn to pieces and the Carthaginian general gets personnally involved ! The elephant finally manage to trample the warriors ! Hard won victory for Carthage: 4-3 (worthy of good old Pyrrhus !)
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Post by Antoine on Sept 23, 2017 21:57:24 GMT
This last week I've played around 10 games with friends : Later macedonians had a hard time against polybian romans, they lost three times, destroying one Triarii stand in 3 games... (0-5, 0-6, those high scores are due to one-turn "cascade flanking" and 1-4). The fourth game saw them use wisely the woods and the BUA to anchor the phalanx flanks, and they won 4-0 against the romans who fielded pergamon allies (Kn, Ps and 3Ax). A friend wanted to face the Later carthaginians with polybian legions: 2 carthaginian victories (4-0 and 4-0) and one roman victory (4-3). The 4 last games were Gauls facing Rome and then Celtiberians. The Gaul won once, again Rome. The guys now have a good understanding of the rules and the importance of threat zones and flanking 2 new DBA players !
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Post by Antoine on Sept 24, 2017 15:09:20 GMT
Today's battle was an epic clash between Gauls and later carthaginians. The carthaginian chose to deploy where the terrain was the worst, willing to deny these areas to the gauls, but lousy starting PIPs didn't help: A plan never survives the first minutes of the battle The Gauls won 6-5, a nice pyrrhic victory. Twice the bound ended with a tie: firstly 4 losses each then 5 each ! After a rough start for carthage, who lost 2 stands without inflicting loss, the whole armies commited and the meatgrinder began to take its toll ! Below picture is how it ended: Carthaginians lost almost all their infantry despite heroic defenses: a stand of Lybian veterans (Sp) held 3 turns while flanked and a stand of spanish Scutari (4Ax) killed 2 stands of gaulish warriors (4Wb) in a long struggle on the right flank. The Gaulish Chieftain had to commit and finish these insolent Iberians ! Both generals even fought for a while, neither of them succeeding to kill his counterpart. Here are all those who now sit in their Ancestor's Halls :
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Post by gregorius on Sept 25, 2017 0:43:52 GMT
A great series of games. I don't know how I missed your reports from last November.
Cheers,
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Post by Baldie on Sept 25, 2017 19:12:46 GMT
A great series of games. I don't know how I missed your reports from last November. Cheers, What he said
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Post by Antoine on Sept 25, 2017 20:37:46 GMT
Thanks guys
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Post by bob on Sept 26, 2017 12:39:48 GMT
Very nice reports, thanks. The armies are quite nice looking. In some of the pictures I'm wondering what is the terrain feature that is sort of squarish with a T-shaped road looking part? A hamlet. Also in the early pictures what is the rectangular shaped terrain piece in the back corner?
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Post by Antoine on Sept 27, 2017 21:11:50 GMT
Very nice reports, thanks. The armies are quite nice looking. In some of the pictures I'm wondering what is the terrain feature that is sort of squarish with a T-shaped road looking part? A hamlet. Also in the early pictures what is the rectangular shaped terrain piece in the back corner? The terrain feature with a T-shaped road is indeed a hamlet. The Brown rectangular terrain features are plough.
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Post by bob on Sept 28, 2017 0:16:48 GMT
I wondered about the Plough because "A lesser part of any Gentle Hill may, and all Plough and linear features must, extend into 1 only adjacent quarter. "
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