Today, despite feeling pretty ropey after a bad night, I went to the club for another go at the Punic Wars, we had been using a wrong list for the Carthaginians and Phil wanted to see what a difference it would make in a rematch.
I decided to sit the game out and just take pictures. Midgard, to me, plays better as a 1:1 anyway.
Lawrence led the Romans, and was soon joined by Stu, who hadn't got a game. On their left, they had Hastati with Principes covering the gaps, they had bot Triarii units covering their left.
On their right they had the Roman an Allied Equites, supported by some Velites.
Phil led the Carthaginians, with Numidians on the left supporting Elephants.
the Right had all the heavy cavalry, in the centre were Spanish Scutarii and African Spearmen, backed by Gauls.
The Romans attacked!
phil put his Numidians through the wood to outflank the Roman heavies.
The Elephants and Balearic slingers headed for the flanking Velites.
The Poeni and Spanish cavalry stayed back, unwilling to take on the Triarii.
The Allied Cavalry outstripped the Romans as they too headed for the woods.
The Romans continued to attack!
The Numidians now shot the Velites from the wood edge, with no effect.
The Romans didn't align their units with the Carthaginian line, which being Drilled, they could have easily done, how would this play out?
The Carthaginian Cavalry now did all they could in their poor position, try to outflank the Romans.
Now the Allied Horse ran into the flank of the Numidians, Phil had borrowed my dice, and he failed to evade, even when their Hero re-prompted them! Needless to say, he found his own magic dice pretty promptly after that!
The Roman centre now charged, sometimes getting into 2 enemy units!
Stu sent the Roman Equites to face the second Numidian unit.
The battle in the wood was brief...
...but decisive!
In the centre, a Spanish unit beat off the Hastati on a 1-1.
Lawrence and Phil tried to tidy it up for my pic!!!!
Surprisingly a Roman Hastati unit got a bruising draw against 2 African Spear units!
Further down the line there was one draw, and a defeat for the Roman infantry despite them charging and having 'Spears for Tribute'! --you could tell Phil had his own dice!!!!
The second Numidian unit shot ineffectually against the Allied Cavalry.
The Balearics had injured a Velite unit, and it was then hit by the Hephalumps!
...the poor Light Infantry didn't do well!
The last Numidian unit tied down the Roman Heavy Cavalry easily.
Lawrence replaced a battered Hastati unit with another!
This turn, despite some awful die rolling, the Romans were holding on in the centre.
On the Roman right, the second Velite unit charged the Balearics, who failed to evade.
The Numidians now tried to Skirmish with the Roman cavalry.
In the Roman centre, gaps started to appear, and some Spanish tried to make merry there!
That replacement unit - despite being fresh, failed to do any better against those African Spearmen!!!
The Roman line began to fall back under the Carthaginian pressure (and Phil's good dice!)
The Carthaginian cavalry now decided to try to intervene.
The second line Gallic Warriors now attacked, but atypically, Lawrence rolled a massive result which spilled over to the Spanish!
The Elephants now charged a Velite unit which failed to evade!
With the Gauls beaten, Lawrence's Triarii now looked in good shape to stop the Poeni Horse.
While Gauls attacked the 'Ala of the right' Legion, the Elephants fought the Veles.
Although they took injury, the opposing Velites were well and truly stomped!
The Roman centre was struggling to hold off the Spanish and African warriors.
The Roman left, barring one Triarii unit, now collapsed.
The situation at game end, a Reputational Major win for Phil.
I was glad to get away, I was very tired, but it was an interesting game to watch, and we all relearnt lessons forgotten re the rules!!!
Finally a few pics from another Midgard game at our club, Saxons v Arthurian Britons!
Nice to see a snowy scene on the hottest, and longest day of the Year!
