ADLG - Game Report 122

Triumvirate Roman (83) vs Classical Greeks (Spartan) (60)

Second battle, after a quick walk around the harbour to take a picture of King William, .....

..... was against my second Greek army of the day; Steve’s Spartans, but an altogether different composition to Paul’s. A similar battlefield but with fields and plantations on the flanks. I went for a similar deployment, but with the Thracian’s on the left and the cavalry – all of them this time – on the right.

Given the length of the Spartan line I decided that it would be fool hardy to try and take the cavalry right flanking and instead moved them to provide support for any breakthrough created by the legionaries.

I allowed the light cavalry and a pair of legionaries to provide something for the Spartans on my right to play with. Meanwhile my mainline was preparing to engage, with the Thracians already trying to lap around the flanks.

The Thracians were first in contact, supported by the legionaries on their right.

The Thracians have chopped their way through the Spartan Hoplite spears and destroyed one unit and have now moved down the Spartan line. The cavalry are moving through the gap in the line that has been created. On the right we are trading space for time.

The Spartan right flank and centre has been broken. The cavalry are now exploiting the gap with the enemy camp in their sights.

With the size of the Spartan army we needed to not only capture the enemy camp but kill as many of the units as we could! On the left flank we have engaged the final Hoplite unit pinned to the coats. In the centre we need to reorientate our line ready for the next wave of Spartans.

The camp has been taken and we are now ready if needed to deliver an attack against the right flank of the Spartan line with our cavalry.

Outcome

A win for the Romans by 13 to 26.

Lessons Learnt

A plan that sought of worked once we had accepted that we were not going to be able to execute a right flank attack.

The cavalry breakthrough worked well this time.