Well, today I finally got my newly finished Achaeans and Trojans out for a game, unfortunately my camera was having a lot of trouble dealing with the bright sunshine coming into the hall, I have done my best to correct, but I hope they will do?!
I rolled to play the Trojans with Lawrence as my ally, while Phil got the Achaeans along with Tony, who hadn't got a game.
Lawrence had our left with Paris and Aeneas (yes, I accidentally gave us an extra unit of Trojan spearmen, but we have found it doesn't change things much, so we left it, but would the gods punish it for us?)
I had Hector, Sarpedon and his Lycians and Thracians with Polydamus commanding the Chariotry.
Tony had the left of the Achaeans, and the light infantry, Phil had the Achaean spearmen and the Myrmidons.
Oddly Achilles was with the Chariotry.
'Achilles!' Agamemnon called - and the Thessalian advanced! Hector lost a rep point rather than face him alone.
Lawrence advanced his Phalanx, I held the Lycians back, hoping to get a charge in.
Tony advanced some archers, I sent mine to the wood supported by my Chariots.
The Achaeans advanced in deep formation against Lawrence's centre.
Phil (of course!) got the bounce on him, and charged Diomedes in with a single unit against two of Lawrence's!
(sun messed me up) - on our left the outnumbered Achaeans beat 3 units, but in the centre the Trojans won.
Tony had advanced his archers to try and drive mine from the woods, but I charged the Greeks and they failed to evade!
The right of the Trojan Phalanx was doing well...but the Myrmidons were in reserve...
Sadly, on our left, Diomedes was cutting through our ranks!
Tony now tried an all out Chariot charge! Achilles managed to get a victory, and two 1's on my risk to hero rolls and a 1 on his Mighty Deed saw Hector die at Achilles hands (à la Iliad!)
He caught my chariots who had destroyed the archers at the stand!
Our left was falling apart! One of our spear units broke!
On our right, the advance continued, but one of our spear units was almost spent, and Tony's chariots were pushing back one of my Lycian spear units (awful dice)
My chariots were doing well, driving back the Achaean chariots, but it was too late.
The Trojan Rep count was 0. We fled back to the walls of Troy!
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