German Batavian Revolt(91) vs German Tencteri (91)
Second game was against Paul’s Germans. This would be a good test for him as he would be using this Army in a competition later this year. I had already trialled this army against Easton’s Gauls and it had performed well, albeit losing.
I deployed the infantry command along the coast, with my cavalry in the centre and my legionaries out on the left. I decided that the mobility afforded to my cavalry would allow them to go wherever I needed them to go once the battle started.
Which indeed they did. The CinC, a brilliant commander, decided to leave the infantry behind and go left flanking with the cavalry. Meanwhile the legionaries slipped to the right to support the warbands moving along the coast.
Contact!! As is typical medium impetuous swords against medium impetuous swords was bloody with two of Paul’s falling victim to the Batavians furiosity. The CinC likes the odds on the left flank.
More swordsmen die in combat on the right, while the CinC’s cavalry are making heavy going of defeating the Tencteri cavalry.
At last the legionaries receive the enemy contact and currently seem to be prevailing. On the right the Batavians have broken through and are advancing through the wood. And still the CinC is struggling to make the enemy cavalry bow before his might!
The combat in the centre is going to the wire, with both sides suffering in the combats. Meanwhile the enemy cavalry and their supporting warband look like they have finally succumbed to the weight of the Batavian cavalry.
Indeed, it looks like the centre has prevailed and despite the losses in Batavian tribesmen the former legionaries are showing why legionaries are hard troops to kill off.
Outcome
A win for the Batavians by inflicting 29 hits on the enemy and only receiving 20 of 27 in return
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