Today we used my Early Imperial Romans against the Early Germans (I painted them years ago and Lawrence bought and rebased them) - we tried a Midgard Scenario 'Woden's Wood' from the 'Chronicles of Midgard' book to do a sort of Teutoburger Wald scenario.
Phil and Lawrence were the Germans, Tony and me Romans, again!
At least the scenario meant we were defenders, which I feel gives us an advantage! We also, per the scenario had 400pts against the Germans 300 pt.
Sorry a couple of pics are de- focussed, they were the fault of auto focus on my camera!
To the right of the road the Romans were marching down, some Chatti.
In the centre their Cavalry and normal Germans.
The German Light infantry was at the front of our road.
A view of the entire German force to our right.
On our left, nothing!
In the centre, more German tribes.
At our front, the Cherusci.
Not so many to our left. I deployed the Romans up the road, led by legionary slingers, Equites, 2 units of Auxilia, then 6 Legionary units, followed by 2 units of Auxilia, Auxilia Sagitarii, and a final unit of Equites. 3 units had baggage, so were 'Slow' - these had coloured markers.
At the end of turn 1 Lawrence advanced his Chatti, but my Hero had a 'With Me' so got the rear half sorted, mostly moving away from the Chatti to give me time to deploy.
The front of the Roman army moved aggressively to deploy, but weren't as heavily pressed by the Germans, however, the German cavalry was threatening!
A view from the front of the Roman army.
Chaos!
Next turn the Chatti hit 2 of my Legionary units - My Auxilia Sagitarii shot up one unit as it approached.
The German Cavalry hit my XX Legion and Tony's Equites got entangled by a German warband.
A view down the road at this point.
Tony used a Hold Fast (and Varrus!) to rally his cavalry, who went on to destroy the German warband.
My Legionary unit broke the German cavalry (My Support rolls came through!!!)
Tony's Auxilia closed with the German archers, who had been harassing the legions, and destroyed them with javelins (Lancea)
The rear of the Roman army was looking better.
The centre was a mess of 'Killing zones' as we all tried to tie enemy units down.
At the front, Tony had charged his slingers into the German Javelinmen.
A view from the front at turn end.
Tony broke a Cherusci unit with a fierce charge!
The German javelinmen massed against the brave slingers and destroyed them, but lost a unit themselves.
A German Warband had charged Tony's Equites and broke them.
One of my Legionary units broke a German unit in the centre.
At the front, Tony's Auxilia easily beat a Cherusci unit.
At the rear, my Legions were mopping up isolated German units.
A Chatti unit had charged my Equites Sagittari, but failed to break through, so I sent an Auxilia unit to help, and the Chatti broke.
In the centre, a Chatti unit had been fighting a Legionary unit, the Chatti won the first round and seized the baggage, I sent my Hero to support them and pushed the Chatti back, recovering the baggage!, by which time both had 3 Stamina loss, finally, the Chatti broke (phew!)
At the front, I had got my Legions there and broke yet another German unit.
At that point, Lawrence shook my hand, and said they were at -2 Rep, I checked, and Rome had +8!
The only part of the German army left!
It seemed a very hard task for the Germans, but their die rolling was very bad at times, and mine especially, was often fabulous!
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