OT2025 Round2

I'd have sworn that was a legal move. I, too, looked for the leaders to be pictured on the card, and it made sense to me that a leadership card would allow leaders to detach. Sorry for the mistake and glad that it had no effect on the game.

OT 2025 - Round 2 ILIPA

Game 1
BrentS (Rome) 7 banners
North Axemen (Carthage) 3 banners

The opening Order 3 on the Roman left, skirmishing against the blocked elephant (Hasdrubal was no Hannibal), resulted in 2 banners from 3 dice….much rampaging and trampling and two Carthaginian units down to 1 block each. The elephants were thrown forward with a Mounted Charge, doing damage (partially revived with a later Rally) and were eliminated on the counter. The Romans pushed forward into the shaky Carthaginian right and eliminated an MC and Warrior but it held and the Roman advance stalled (mainly due to a glut of centre cards). A slow down and cagey manouevreing, desultory ranged fire and repositioning (while cycling those centre cards) gave Carthage the chance to withdraw and protect their crippled right, getting those tempting 1 block units to safety. Now the Roman right advanced but Carthage responded by charging in to kill an MI and Scipio! Desperate Rome threw two consecutive Double Times to get a lone leaderless Heavy up to the pinned units on the Carthaginian baseline, relying on Carthaginian hand poverty to try to regain momentum, successfully getting within one banner of victory. The Heavy was eliminated, however, and Rome had to finish it with an unglamorous bullying of an Auxilia with a couple of lights and a 1 block MC. A scrappy scramble for Roman victory after
trying for a controlled game. Really entertaining.

Game 2
BrentS (Carthage) 7

North Axemen (Rome) 5

Rome did its opening thing, two skirmishers on their left peppering the pinned elephant…..no rampage or trample this time….just 2 dice, 2 reds….an inauspicious start but a least the Carthaginians didn’t have to worry about what to do with him after that! The lights came forward on both sides and Rome sprung a Darkened the Sky, which the Carthaginians Counterattacked…..the 6 Roman lights with 12 dice inflicting 2 hits and a retreat, the Carthaginian 3 lights with 6 dice scoring 4 hits and 2 retreats (it’s always the way….dice and the fickle gods). I wouldn’t usually adopt an aggressive posture with a hand of 4, but with Leadership orders, Order Heavies and Mediums, a Line Command and Double Time cycling up, and only one leader making a defensive setup very difficult, the Carthaginians went for it. The Double Time killed 3 Romans straight up, the Warriors doing their thing (charge, advance, kill….and die). You have to expect a 6 command player to have the resources to respond and they did. Carthage 6 banners to Rome’s 5 and it became tight. The Carthaginian left was pinned near its baseline, unable to move and taking heavy fire from a line of Roman lights, shooting fish in a barrel, and were down to a couple of 1 block units, just one Order Lghts away from being eliminated and giving Rome the game. Nothing to do but push forward in the centre and Hasdrubal finally pinned a Roman light cav on its baseline and eliminated it. This was a really close one and could have gone either way. Great game.

Thanks to Max for some strongly contested and very enjoyable games. Great sport and a gentleman.

Brent.

Can't see a way to post log files....has the site been updated?

BrentS wrote:

Can't see a way to post log files....has the site been updated?
 

Hi Brent,
I see the "attachments" section right below the reply box.
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By any chance, is there any other user having trouble uploading attachments?
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Thanks Alessandro.

I’m not getting the usual options to reply to topic or edit my posts or add attachments. Just a text box labeled “Discuss this article.” I’d take a screenshot to show you but I can’t add attachments to upload it.

Confirmed I’m properly logged in so it’s not that.

Brent.

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R1G2
Mike / scipio1zama – Carthage, 4 banners won, 37 blocks lost
Steve T – Rome, 7 banners won, 23 blocks lost
The first half of the game went all my Romans’ way on the flanks, aided by a double flag elephant rampage/trample (1-4). Mike’s Carthaginians had slowly advanced with his HI getting close, screened by lights and auxila. The infantry clashed at the Roma left centre, with the Carthaginian screen depleted but then their HI slicing into the Romans en masse (4-6). The battle was lost when Hasdrubal, leading his phalanx from the front in this melee, was cut down by Roman auxila on a double dice leader check (4-7).
Thanks to Mike for a tense game. I needed to win 7-3 to draw the match and didn’t quite make it- he will report game 1. I had some great dice, and he had excellent cards, a succession of line commands which he used well to enable the entire Carthaginian HI to attack in a frightening onslaught.

 

Match 1
Player 1 (AnoN) 2 banners
Player 2 (TTC) 7 banners

The Romans started out with a volley of projectiles at the fearsome Carthaginian elephants. The battle then became a back-and-forth on the flanks, with the Romans playing two Mounted Charges - the first countered with a Carthaginian Counterattack, allowing their elephants to shelter in the rear of the battlefield. Both sides' cavalry proved to be resilient (i.e., we couldn't roll for crap) until the Romans finally defeated the Carthaginian left flank cavalry, then right flank cavalry. Finally, a pair of Roman Line Commands allowed the main body to close with and finish off the Carthaginians. 

Match 2
Player 2 (TTC) 7 banners
Player 1 (AnoN) 3 banners

The Romans again attacked the elephants early, with some elephant rampaging (and rulebook-flipping) causing early damage to both sides. This time the Carthaginian elephants attacked the Romans, but they ended up being as harmless as Dumbo before one elephant was lost and the other retreated to the rear. The Carthaginians then began advancing their main body, their cavalry holding each flank - Double-Timing to hit the Roman left. The battle became quite bloody, as HI and MI tangled, supported by Hasdrubal and Marcius. With the battle tied at 3 banners each, Hasdrubal went into berserker mode, one-shotting the last four Roman units - three on battle-backs.

Thanks to AnoN for two great games!






 

Match 1

Marco (Carthage) 0 banners
Gileforn (Roman) 7 banners

Romans started from light forces shooting to elephants with very good result - one LC was destroyed. Than the biggest part of the game was on the Roman left where they got step by step new banners. It was a chance for revenge on the Carthage left, but luck was on the Roman side. Double time by alone medium force with leader gave two final banners.

Thanks to Mark, that was a really hard game to Carthage because of luck and cards. Difficult to do anything. Good luck next rounds.