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Birmingham Ladywood2 2008 Battle Reports Part 4
« on: March 05, 2008, 10:35:24 PM »
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: ME
CinC 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.
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.
 
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.
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.
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.
 
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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