Today we returned to the 2nd Punic War in Midgard, again using the lists from the rulebook. I got to be Roman again, and decided to not use the Replacements trait with them, as I feel it fails to give sufficient benefit to be worth using! - also, the 3 lines depth makes the Roman line very short, which is something the Romans did not allow if possible. I did deploy in a chequerboard pattern, which allows the line to turn easily to match up the enemy positions.
The Carthaginians had 'Omens', but poor Tony threw a '1' so they lost 2 Reputation, but gained a ' Today, we fight to win!' trait for their C-in-C!
My Roman deployment, facing a shorter Carthaginian one commanded by Lawrence on their left and Tony on their right.
My left wing 'Centurio' had 2 units of Velites, the Allied cavalry and an allied Legion of 1 Hastati, 1 Principes, and a Triarii units.
In the centre I had 2 Roman Legiones - lacking Triarii.
On my right the second Allied Legion, with 2 Velite units and the Roman Equites.
Facing the Roman right, the Punics had 2 units of Numidian Horse, 2 units of Balearic Slingers, and the Elephants.
In the centre they had a front line of Libyan Spearmen and Spanish Scutarii, backed by Gauls.
Their light Right wing had 2 units of Medium Cavalry.
The Punics moved first, advancing rapidly and sending their Numidians to push round my flank.
Their centre and right advanced slowly.
I responded by sending my left wing Light Infantry into the woods.
My centre, with no need to reposition, assumed Acies Simplex, the single line, with the 2 Triarii units behind either wing.
I sent an Allied maniple of Principes, along with my Roman horse and Velites to counter the Carthaginian light troops.
One Numidian unit was attacked by a Velite unit, I blocked the other one with the Roman Cavalry and the other Velite unit. My Principes kept the Balearic Slingers busy!
The Carthaginian centre halted just outside 2 Spear Throws of my line!
The Carthaginian Cavalry was hesitant, unsurprisingly!
The battle between the Velites and the Numidians was even, but the Numidian Hero fell!
In the second round of Melee, my Velites rolled really well, not only destroying the Numidians, but injuring their supporting Balearic Slingers!
My other Velite unit had driven the other unit of Numidians of table, but took a point of damage in the process.
On my left, I charged the Allied Cavalry and destroyed the leading Carthaginian Cavalry unit!
The Punics responded by charging my victorious troops with their second unit, supported by some Spanish!
My Cavalry were destroyed, but a supporting Hastati unit charged in and destroyed the Punic Cavalry in turn.
The Carthaginian's Spanish now engaged my first Legion.
11 out of 15 dice hit!!!
My Hastati unit was destroyed!
My other Principe unit beat the other Spanish unit though, and drove them back.
One more Spanish unit was left to face my Second Legion.
Back on the right, my Principes had taken a little damage...eventually! - from the cursed Slingers!
The battle would most likely be decided on the left however!
The solo Spanish unit was destroyed easily by the Legion, though their Hastati took heavy damage.
At the end of this turn my Roman left was doing well.
The Carthaginians had run out of Reputation though!
I still had 7! Whoo! The Romans actually won!
Poor Lawrence had had some terrible dice on their left, and it showed!!!
