OT 2018 Round 4

Game 2
Mad Doc (Macedonia) 3 banners
LeonardoAngelo (Sparta) 7 banners

Hi friends!
The day before the deadline decided to make an interim table on the results of this round.
we have 6 players yet to play, their result is unknown. But they can increase their number of points. So I finished "more results of this round".
With equal points, I also don't know the additional "strength" parameter of each. Therefore, the final list may differ.
1 g1ul10 11 points
2. Tomek 10 points
Carthage 10 points
4. BrentS 8,5 points
stormwalker 8,5 points
6. Cavie 8 points
7. Mark McG 7 points
LeonardoAngelo 7 points
CrimsonCobraX 7 points
10. gottoman 6,5 points
11. scipio1zama 6 points
mk20336 6 points
Gonzo 6 points
14. Armada01 5,5 points
15. Nemo2333 4,5 points (more results of this round)
Mad Doc 4,5 points
Polonus100 4,5 points (more results of this round)
18. EZPickins 4 points
ympytar 4 points (more results of this round)
sduke12 4 points (more results of this round)
PScipio42 4 points
22. toganalper 3,5 points
23. talonz 2,5 points (more results of this round)
24. Prof X 2 points
25. Stanislav27 1,5 points (more results of this round)
26. IvanSirko resigned

there are plans afoot to get 4 of the outstanding 6 matches played in the next few days, and as it happens I have limited time to draw up the new Round this weekend. So I'm hopeful we can get a few more results before the Round finalises around July 3 or 4.
For Round 5, I am thinking an extended period of about 6 weeks, since I know European summer holidays take players away from home for longer periods.

Thanks a lot. Talonz and I were very challenged by busy schedules and long time difference, but we count on having the game played by July 3.

Apologies to all other generals!

1) Polonus won both games against Nemo. We are waiting for the report from the winner.
2) talonz-unsubscribed about the planned battle on July 3
3) ympytyar reported that sduke12 twice appointed time of battles and did not come to it. It may be worth it to give sduke the sentence, and to finally play the 5th round?

Polonus (Macedonian) - Nemo (Spartan) 7-6
Nemo (Macedonian) - Polonus (Spartan) 4-7
Both files later this day. unfortunately from second game I have only .sav file, not full log.
First game. Agressive play of Nemo and his light forces on both flanks. But left Spartan flank suffered losses and was soon not so active. Right one suffered later after next few rounds. Seeing waiting Macedonian Nemo decided to advance his hoplites on the left and center. First attack of Spartans didn't broke Macedonian but counterattack of Antipater was met by succesfull First Strike card. Despite of numerical superiority Macedonian infantry was broken few times in hard fight and Spartan gain 6 flags against 4. They very succesfully used Clash of Shield card on both flanks. But Antipater survived and organized counterattack with reserves of infantry and cavalry. Spartan left was beaten and Agis slain by pursuing hetairoi. Meanwhile on the left Maedonian flank Hetairoi attacked with success Spartan MC unit gaining 7-th flag.
Second game - Stormy and crazy fight on Spartan left won by Macedonian 2-1. Crazy Macedonian Warrior attack was repelled next - 2-2. Spartan line tried to use its ranged combat units but when advantage of shooting force was on Macedonian side Spartiates advanced. After bloody battle on the left both sides lost few units but the last one hoplite unit was Spartan and result 4-4. Both Spartiates units were destroyed, as well as Macedonian Phalanx and MI unit. Light Macedonian units on the right shooted poorly on Spartan auxilia on the hills and Nemo decided to form line in center and righ withdrawing a bit his infantry. Agis ordered his last surviving hoplite unit from first clash to join left-center group thus forming new battle line. Succesfull double line attack won the day. Antipater flew, Phalanx and MI were broken and Hetairoi, who attacked earlier without success Greek hoplites and were shattered, died defending its leader retreat.

Double Time attack of course.

Logfile from first game and save file from second.

Stanislav27 (Macedonian) - Talonz (Spartan) 5-7
Talonz (Macedonian) - Stanislav27 (Spartan) 4-7

Thanks a lot for the extension of the deadline. For the two of us, it was definitely worth it. Two thrilling and extremely bloody battles. Especially the first one became a huge, bloody brawl very early on with Talonz slaying a Macedonian leader early on and keeping the pressure until the very end. Yours truly attempted a "clever maneuver", feeling certain that the nameless Spartan leader would be chased off the field AND count as a victory banner. Yours truly, however, had misread the rules and thus missed a chance for Antipater to steal the glory by attacking Agis' weakened unit. Talonz was effective in the mop-up operation and seized victory immediately thereafter.

The second one was a more tense affair with action all over the field. The decisive moment was when the well-organized Spartan line withstood a powerful charge by the Macedonian infantry, scored a number of hits on the battle back and then immediately followed up with a charge across the line. Talonz never got to use his Clash of Shield, but did succeed with an audacious cavalry charge on the Spartan right, routing the startled medium cavalry. The depleted Spartan units in the left and centre re-organized however, withstood a final, desperate charge by a Macedonian medium infantry and won the day in the end.

Thanks a lot to Geoff (Talonz) for two tough, but very fun matches!