Tommy's Wargaming blog

The armies set up. All the terrain on table is rocky ground. Great for my Infantry. Getting ready to charge a bit too late in the game. The Chinese Chariots are getting beaten up but have taken some units down. Note the big slog between 2 Babylonian Heavy Infantry units and a Polearm unit. The Polearms should be dead by now (handbags at dawn). Into shooting range of the Skythian mercenaries. My shooting was generally rubbish throughout the game. Some casualties on the Babylonian side. The score will be 8-6 in favour of the Chinese after this round, 2 points coming from a very weak Babylonian Archer unit. A couple of dead Chinese units. Final Babylonian casualties. In the end the Polearm unit on the Chinese right broke a Cavalry unit. As mentioned before, the weak Archer died as did the Sparabara and a Chariot unit. The Chinese lost their army eventually, but it was extremely close. Not much left on table. Main lessons from the game: when you have a chance to potentially get out of a si...

Tough fight between Spears, Libyans and mixed units. The Skirmishers can now charge a flank.  Those Chariots on the Minoan side are nasty. Lots of casualties on the Chinese side.  The Minoans are suffering but have the upper hand. How that Chinese Chariot unit survived I have no idea. It was however responsible for killing a 6 of Archers because of the ability to follow through with unengaged bases. A few more casualties on both sides. How the unit hit in the flank by a full strength long spear unit survived to the next bound, I have no idea.  I believe the Chinese lost 15-6 in the end, having taken down a Long Spear unit, an Archer unit and 2 Sugs. This was a very bloody fight as well. Once Long Spears are down to 1 base in any of their files, they are dead against decent Mounted.

A small bit of rough terrain on table and good lineups. The Romans are on the left, the Exceptionals I believe facing close order Flexible Warband in rough terrain. Romans are pushing forward aggressively, the Gepids are reorganising. a very wide Superior Legion facing off 2 Cavalry units. Beaten up but alive Gepid Cavalry having beaten the entire Roman mounted left wing. Dunce cap required for me. I'll elaborate in the summary. Gepid casualties so far. Mass of Roman casualties.   The Romans eventually picked off one Gepid Tug. They however lost their army. I will say though that a few Gepid units were a bit worse for wear so I could have picked up more units had I survived. The dunce cap moment explained: I was too aggressive with my Cavalry. Yes mine were better than Ian's mostly, because of the Armenian ally. The mistake was advancing without proper flank protection. I should have come in at an angle rather than in a straight line. 15-2 to Ian was the final result.