Early Imperial Romans (85) vs Late Imperial Romans (87)
I remained undecided at this stage about what army to take to Warfare. I had tried Ptolemaic, and I would try them again. However, I thought it would be interesting to bring out the Early Imperial Roman's to see how they would fare. Candidly the collective wisdom is that they are a reasonable defensive army but their win:loss ratio is not very favourable. In part it might be due to the fact that to get all the nice troops in the army the points are not on one's side and hence army size can be a little on the small size. For my part I put together an Army of 25 units, by going large on the Auxilia and light on the legionaries.
This would be interesting Army to field, and this would be a stiff fight against Robin's Late Imperial Romans. He opted to defend in the mountains. Consequently, there was a lot of difficult terrain to negotiate, but equally sufficient to provide some flank protection on my left flank and ground suitable for Auxilia. In the centre the Legionaries stood proud of their tradition; throwing scorn at those in front of them that lost the western empire. While on the right there was a further Auxilia command to negotiate the difficult and rough terrain.
I decided to leave the hill on the left flank under the protection of the Marines and light troops, while the Auxilia moved forward to support the Legionaries. On the right we moved the Auxilia forward to move through the terrain and try to flank the enemy left.
A small point of clarification on Robin's Romans the gentlemen with the purple stick in front of them are actually Auxilia, and not late Legionaries. We have moved forward wheeling from the right to the left, well as fast as moving through the terrain would allow the right to move.
The enemy left has withdrawn away from the marsh, but unfortunately we cannot move fast enough to exploit this. The gap we have exposed on the left is being protected by the single cavalry unit which includes the General.
The enemy on our right has now turned to face us and in doing so they are refusing that flank. While on my left flank the CinC has moved his Equites to support the general and to protect the gap. The General has cunningly positioned himself such that it is less likely that the enemy can bring more than one unit into contact with him.
Contact! Success and calamity in equal measure. The Auxilia have outperformed the opposition. The included Equites General has prospered against the enemy cavalry, while on the right the Auxilia are now in a position to strike after destroying the bows. However, and this is a big however, in the centre the elite armoured Legionary with their included General suffered a hit and the general was destroyed by the enemy Cataphracts!
The Auxilia and the Equites are soundly winning their battles. Even to the extent of killing the enemy Cavalry General as he entered the combat. Fortunately, pressures of command and control have prevented the Cataphracts from seizing their opportunity to try and flank my Legionaries. On the right I think it safe to say that the Auxilia are marauding.
Outcome
The Early Romans overcame the Late Romans by 9 to 23.
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