OT2025 Round2

Commands & Colors Ancients VASSAL Open Tournament
Round 2
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OT2025 Round2

Results for OT2025 Round2.

Match 1
gotigerssc (Carthage) 1 banners
Hank (Roman) 7 banners

Match 2
Hank (Carthage) 3 banners
gotigerssc (Roman) 7 banners

Results for OT2025 Round 2.

Match 1
january31 (Carthage) 1 banner
beckerdo (Rome) 7 banners

Match 2
beckerdo (Carthage) 5 banners
january 31 (Rome) 7 banners

Match 1 recap - Rome opens with lights taunting elephants. Elephants both wounded but Carthage moves them back to safety.

Lots of battles on the flanks. Carthage has many Lights cards, but Rome has good dice. Eventually Carthage flanks weaken and Rome gains lead 5-1 banners.

Carthage activates center, but Rome continues pushing on flank, weathers a flank counter attack or two, and drives the enemy off the field 7-1.

Match 2 recap - Rome opens with lights taunting elephants taunting and kills one. Carthage protects the remaining elephant with a light unit screen. Rome leads 1-0.

Carthage gets its flanks in order and both sides step up with infantry. Carthage has some success on the flanks and pulls ahead 2-1.

Rome beats back both flanks and both take casualties. The infantry in the center are forming up. Rome backs up a step to reform the line. The Carthage line advances. The game is tied 3-3.

The infantries in the center meet. Lots of dice are thrown, but with good leaders, Rome pounds the Carthaginians and leads 6-4. A huge center line scrum with many casualties. Rome wins 7-5.

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 Match 1

Mark-McG (Carthage) 6 Banners
gdnuke (Romans) 7 Banners

Match 1 recap: Romans try to win the battle on the flanks and avoid the powerful Carthaginian center. Good strategy, but the Carthaginians on the flanks are able to screen the elephants and destroy the Roman medium cavalry on each flank. The Carthaginians make skillful use of their light cavalry to cut Roman retreat paths and maintain a lead in banners through the midgame. The Romans eventually wear down and eliminate the entire Carthaginian right flank and take a very close win 7-6. Mark definitely played the better game, but in a game with almost no fighting in the center, Rome had too many troops where they were needed. Now I must try to match Mark's level of play in Match 2!

Had Carthage's Turn 6 Mounted charge been more effectiveen then Carthage might have won. But round one was favourble for Carthage. No damage done to those beasts.

Match 2
George (Carthage) 3 banners
Mark McG (Roman) 7 banners

I always find it easier to play to a target, knowing you can lose X many banners, as long as you win the scenario. As it was the Romans had a great start here, ordering the Light Troops and getting a hit and a flag on each elephant. The resulting rampage and trampling did a further 5 hits on the unlucky troops behind the elephants.

After that, the elephants were hidden away, and it got down to serious skirmish business. Lot of evading and javelin throwing, but push came to shove and eventually Marcius double timed into action to kill an Auxilia. This brought the Roman Mediums into range of Stompy, and I thought a full strength Medium Infantry could handle a lone elephant. Well Stompy went through the first Medium, then the 2nd Medium that had Marcius without drawing breathe. Fortunately Marcius made it away, and the Heavy Infantry cut Stompy into steaks. The score sat now at 2-2 as I reconsidered my plan, but fortunately I drew First Strike. So after settling the left flank where Stompy had wreaked his havoc, I pushed up on the right. I rallied my troops (4 out of 6 rallied), and made a miscalculation allowing a Light Cavalry to be cut off from evasion. This set off the action, with the Medium Cavalry sliding behind the LC, the Warriors coming up to execute the LC, and the other elephant walking into the First Strike ambush. 

With the Medium cavalry and warriors exposed, I got Scipio to Doubletime into them, killed off the Warrior with two attacks, and got 3 Blue hits on the evading Medium cavalry with the bonus combat.
That pretty much finished the battle. Scipio then had to press forwards until the Carthaginian lights could evade no more and finish the battle, but George had one last trick that came close to working. His other warrior led by Hasdrubal charged Marcius on a Heavy Infantry. Again I bet I could withstand the attack, but was nearly proved wrong with 3 hits. Fortunately Marcius dealt back 4 hits, and it was all over.

Great game.
 
 

Mark-McG wrote:

Match 2
George (Carthage) 3 banners
Mark McG (Roman) 7 banners

I always find it easier to play to a target, knowing you can lose X many banners, as long as you win the scenario. As it was the Romans had a great start here, ordering the Light Troops and getting a hit and a flag on each elephant. The resulting rampage and trampling did a further 5 hits on the unlucky troops behind the elephants.

After that, the elephants were hidden away, and it got down to serious skirmish business. Lot of evading and javelin throwing, but push came to shove and eventually Marcius double timed into action to kill an Auxilia. This brought the Roman Mediums into range of Stompy, and I thought a full strength Medium Infantry could handle a lone elephant. Well Stompy went through the first Medium, then the 2nd Medium that had Marcius without drawing breathe. Fortunately Marcius made it away, and the Heavy Infantry cut Stompy into steaks. The score sat now at 2-2 as I reconsidered my plan, but fortunately I drew First Strike. So after settling the left flank where Stompy had wreaked his havoc, I pushed up on the right. I rallied my troops (4 out of 6 rallied), and made a miscalculation allowing a Light Cavalry to be cut off from evasion. This set off the action, with the Medium Cavalry sliding behind the LC, the Warriors coming up to execute the LC, and the other elephant walking into the First Strike ambush. 

With the Medium cavalry and warriors exposed, I got Scipio to Doubletime into them, killed off the Warrior with two attacks, and got 3 Blue hits on the evading Medium cavalry with the bonus combat.
That pretty much finished the battle. Scipio then had to press forwards until the Carthaginian lights could evade no more and finish the battle, but George had one last trick that came close to working. His other warrior led by Hasdrubal charged Marcius on a Heavy Infantry. Again I bet I could withstand the attack, but was nearly proved wrong with 3 hits. Fortunately Marcius dealt back 4 hits, and it was all over.

Great game.
 

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The Elephant charge was the best ever I've witnessed, optimal taking out 2 full medium in one turn. 
To add to that last turn Leader ship any section? Is it possible to split the leader and move? I think leader can only be moved on section cards, order mounted and IAS with leader symbol.
 

rams1984 wrote:

To add to that last turn Leader ship any section? Is it possible to split the leader and move? I think leader can only be moved on section cards, order mounted and IAS with leader symbol.

On investigation, you are correct, leaders cannot be detached from a unit, but a lone leader can move. Didn't occur to me at the time, partly because the leader image is on the card. In Napoleonics, the leader can detach!
Anyway, all done now