A couple of games from the last couple of months......
Ross was aware that I had finished my Vikings. As he has Byzantines, Normans and Muslim forces that are all from the same period- I took my army off to his place and found an army waiting for them!
What did I find? A Hamdanid Arab force - awaiting my plundering and rampaging Vikings.
Both from the same time period - mid 10th Century....but very different in composition!
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My Vikings. Anchoring my left flank on some low hills.
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| The center of the Arab line. Just about every unit in this army had bow. The infantry, the cavalry, the donkeys, the dogs, the camp followers, the pet rocks....everyone had a damned bow. |
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| The heavily weighted Arab left flank. |
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| The Arab right flank. A couple of cavalry units and next to them the some Ghazi style bedouin warband |
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| My forces- the triple(!!) line in the middle was berserkers in front , then my Huscarls and then hird. |
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| My Berserkers just go.....they don't wait, they don't ask where, they don't ask how many, they don't even look....they just go. |
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| The two armies race forward. My Vikings on the right - The Hamdanids on the left. For me, there was no point in just hanging back- sooner or later I had to get stuck in ..if I sat back he would just shoot me to bits. With the advantages of heavy infantry and being in Shield-wall I would have some protection....but he would eventually whittle me down. |
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| I refused my right flank..and my center just went hell for leather to punch a hole in his army. |
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| Huscarls hitting his Dailami light infantry...there wasn't much of them left after my axes finished with them. |
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| Arab cavalry attacking my left flank. |
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| The last of the three unit of Berserkers hitting his Bedouin....he had been outshooting me all day. |
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| The Viking line getting close...and each step of the way we were being hit by a hail of arrows. |
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| Huscarls holding back the cavalry. |
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| The centre |
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| Hird being hammered with javelin |
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| My right...watching all of his bow armed cavalry..shooting at me. I didn't really have an effective response- i had a couple of skirmishers and a bow unit..but we were totally out-shot. |
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| When the boys did get in to contact they caused fearful casualties!! |
In the end, the Arabs took the day!! A good game with the final casualty list showing a definitive Arab win.....until next time.
THE ROMANS!
On the upside my Republican Romans had a big win against the Macedonians!
Ross, Spyros and I went to a club meet here in Sydney- Company of Dice. Great bunch and very welcoming!
Sypros and I were the Romans, Ross the Macedonians. It was such a good game that I forgot to take pics- but the Macedonians stripped my right flank but in the centre the Legionaries beat up the phalanx and won the game!
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| Phalanx versus Legion. |
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| The Roman left- the combination of velites, cavalry and elephants caused the Macedonians problems.....well they had a similar combination...but teh Romans had better die rolls in combat and morale! |
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| Rolling up the phalanx! |
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| The legions hitting the phalanx...the battle was decided here- at top of the picture a unit of princeps swinging into the flank of the phalanx....it got nasty! |
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| The Roman right- it was totally swamped by the Macedonians and only a Unit of Hastati and some Velites were left..holding on just long enough for the legions in the centre to do their job. |
Excellent couple of games there Roger - the Vikings of course suffered the curse of the recently painted, but it still looked like a lot of fun, and at least you also had a win with the Romani!
ReplyDeleteSorry - JOHN - duh!
ReplyDeleteNo problem Keith! Thanks for your comment!
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