ADLG - Game Report 220

New Kingdom Egyptian (14) vs Early Carthaginians (54)

Second game for the Egyptians was Cid’s Carthaginians. Given my somewhat mixed experience fighting (and mostly losing) against the Carthaginians I wasn’t expecting too much from this battle. Here I was defending in the plains. The open part of the battlefield was on the right, which is where we placed the Chariots. This rather left the infantry to face off against the Heavy Chariots with their impact factor.

I decided that I couldn’t let the infantry face of against the enemy chariots by themselves so I despatched three of the chariots to move against them. This left the remainder and the Sherden warriors to hold the flank.

Once the Egyptian Chariots had deployed it started to look a little better. Even more so because I have deployed the ambush to give the Carthaginians something to think about on their right.

I committed the chariots against the enemy cavalry, while the remainder spared with the line of Hoplites by firing arrows at them. Unfortunately, the Sherden had to be thrown in early, as is the way with impetuous troops.

Although a lone chariot has broken through into the back field, the other was destroyed. The remaining Chariots withdrew after inflicting no casualties on the Hoplites. As for the Sherden we need to draw a veil over their plight. On the left the Egyptians are barely holding on in the gully with one unit already destroyed opening the line for the Carthaginians to exploit at their leisure.

A brave Egyptian fight back in the gully has stabilised that flank for a time. However with the centre not yet engaged the Carthaginians seem to be winning on the flanks and unwilling to commit against the centre.

The lone Chariot that was in the backfield has been destroyed. While the flanks continue to move forward to encircle the Egyptian centre.

Finally contact is made in the centre and the Heavy Chariots have had a good day destroying one Egyptian unit and making another very uncomfortable indeed. The Carthaginians have redouble their efforts against the gully and now seem to have the benefit of numbers on their side.

Outcome

A Carthaginian victory by 17 to 27.

Lessons Learnt

None of my commands seemed capable of doing much against any of the Carthaginian commands. By this stage I was seriously considering a re-design of the army.