Birmingham Ladywood2 2008 Battle Report
1st game Steve Rathgay vs Brian Pierpoint Hi folks - 1st report from Ladywood for the LAP.
I used the 'new version' of Darius III, from the current list - well the truth is, I'd said to Gordon that I'd use them, then someone went and changed the list! The fairly manoeuvrable 3 Reg SG with filler and Reg troops somehow became 2 Reg SG, with even more troops:
Army List below: MECinC 1 4
Persian Cv 8 8
Massagetae 4 8
Bactrians 4 8
Colonists 6 6
Arachos 6 6
Tak 1 0.5
Arch 1 0.5
Elephants 1 2
Chariots 2 0
Levy 4 2
Scyth LH 1 1
Baggage 0 3
Elements 31 49 | SG 1 4
Sat Guard 2 4
Kinsmen 2 4
Tak 6 3
Archers 6 3
Levy 6 3
Chariots 1 0
Baggage 0 3
Elements 24 24 | Greek SG 1 4
Hoplites 5 5
Guard Inf 2 4
Court Tak 2 1
Artillery 1 1
Chariots 1 0
Levy 3 1.5
Baggage 3
Elements 15 19.5 |
Usually the C-in-C gets the highest, the hoplites 2nd and the 'filler' 3rd, though this changed for this game. (Where has the pip dump gone?)
 | Ist game was against Brian Pierpoint's Huns, that were in fact Hepthalites. It didn't start well - Darius III decided to get the Indian empire back, and promptly invaded. the flank guarding terrain
I needed I didn't get, with only 2 equivalent pieces - though one field Brian put down did get muddy later on. It was basically a plain, I doubled Brian's dice and being inert, got to deploy 1st and move 2nd, though it did mean rain was possible.
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 | I deployed the above right, left, centre, with a wooded hill on my left flank. With hindsight, I'd have been better off putting the supported Takabara in the open, they'd have made the elephants think.
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 | Brian's list was 2 command of 3 El S with LH S - 24ME each command I think, with a left flank LH S and 4 Cv S command, again similar ME. The game was basically all 3 commands vs my CinC, with my hoplite
command on highest dice moving around the back to face off the flank command and flanking elephants. |
 | They deployed one move back from the TF so that they could do so. (which Brian didn't attack)
Takabara command into the edge of the LH S line, to little avail.
The stationery Scythed chariots did their usual roundabout impersonation - people go round them and they slow up traffic, not doing any real harm though.
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 | Although I ended up losing 23-2, it was closer than it seemed. I ended up 1ME from disheartening each elephant command. If only some had been destroyed rather than spent! I also managed to get the
The artillery got one shot in against an elephant, and failed.
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 | Otherwise, the EL S/LH S combo went through my Cv O frontline, which was supported by LH. I did eventually get a couple of elephants, though by then the damage was done. Again with hindsight, deploying a move behind the TF would have helped, though space would have got
tight then.
My own elephant didn't help, getting outflanked as the supporting elements recoiled.
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 | A good game against a good opponent, though one look said the Kn I had to hide!
Then it was on to lunch - a great spread, even a bowl of salad for the health conscious. Had to have some Mild as was in Brum - the stuff's still awful, but 'when in Rome'
Steve Rathgay
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