Tommy's Wargaming blog

The Samurai defended in Coastal terrain with a deep water secure flank, only got outscouted by 10%, had a long line of Spearmen mixed with 3 Foot Powerbows and a further 6 of Long Spears anchored to the secure flank. My opponent pushed forward with Flexible Cavalry in Tug formation, and also Cataphracts that were nearly all 2 wide. My shooting was very successful and my opponent charging Cataphracts into Long Spears didn't quite work. He caught one unit of 4 Powerbow with Cataphracts and killed it.  Basically, the Tuyuhun player conceded after the first melee phase. My Spearmen were proving too strong against the Cataphracts and my shooting was deadly against most of his army.  The final score was 15-2 to the Samurai. Fewer pictures than usual because I was so engrossed in the game, sorry.

Before starting the battle report, I should state that most of the comments on the photos are from what I remember to have happened in the game. I believe this was played sometime in January this year or perhaps earlier. My opponent was Hammy. The armies deployed, an uncivilized mob vs disciplined troops. 15 Tugs and 6 Skirmishers in the Slave army. Three ambush markers, why not?  The armies are trundling forward against each other, and as the Slave commander, I have revealed one ambush as fake. The Romans take the hill. The Slaves prepare to attack uphill. They are clearly insane. The battle has been joined. On the Slave left, Cavalry are appearing on the flanks. Somehow the Slaves are surviving and beating the Romans on the hill. I believe I threw the commanders of the Fanatic units into combat at this stage to beat the Romans which were off the hill. 2nd mistake from my point of view, but this time it was costly. Battle is very vicious. Quite a few Roman units are on their last ...

 In this game, my opponent was Steve Stead. It was a seesaw battle definitely. The Samurai won the initial dice roll and defended in Coastal, the result of the terrain phase being that there was only a deep water secure flank on table.  Then came the Scouting, the Samurai got away with only being outscouted by 10%. At the end of deployment, on the Samurai side will be a broken up line of Long Spears intermingled with Skilled Powerbow Infantry. On the Chinese side will be 4 Chariot units on their right, 2 9s of 3 Long Spear and 6 Bow, then 16 Tribal Devastating Chargers, 1 unit behind the other and a unit of Polearms. The Samurai are split up to counter the threats of the Chinese forces and also to take advantage of my mostly Drilled training. Initial shooting was fairly ineffectual, wounding units here and there, and scoring the odd skull. My centre left group of Samurai, made up of a Superior 8 and an Average 8 of Long Spears lunged for the Chinese mixed units. In hindsight, ...