ADLG - Game Report 201

Seleucid (42) vs Arab Conquest (130)

One to the final game of the tournament, against Kevin’s Arab Conquest foes. This time I was invited to defend in the plain; could I do any better defending. I deployed with the two infantry commands on the right with the cavalry to their left.

After some lengthy moving we make contact on the left and right, and indeed with the scythed chariot making contact and not dying in the process!

On the left we rushed into contact, with our left anchored on the fields. The pikes move forward to support the left and right which wer now both firmly engaged.

I was relatively relaxed at this stage I didn’t see too many alarms, but things were starting to turn ugly. The right flank elephant has been destroyed and the Thracians and Thureophoroi are now fighting for their lives. Meanwhile in the centre the Pikes are being assailed and the elite Agrypsids have been reduced to one cohesion point (so much for their elite status) while another has been reduced to two cohesion points.

And so the Seleucid army starts to fall apart; the blue markers are units that have been destroyed in contact. While the Thureophoroi on the right have been surrounded and are about to be defeated. Surprisingly the cavalry engaged on the left are holding their own as is the elephant.

Outcome

An Arab victory by 16 to 21 Seleucid losses. And the final outcome for the competition was me being the strongest player and holding the rest of the competitors up; but I was rewarded by a £10 voucher to spend at Entoyment.

Lessons Learnt

21 units were not enough to do battle.

The scythed chariot was pretty but not very impressive; I have had more luck when I have used a pair of them.

The elephants might have been better grouped together for shock effect.