MT62 EPIC Battles

Joe, I think this should go to MT61

Round 3
toganalpervsCavie




toganalper (Roman) - 13 Banners Won, 51 Blocks Lost
Cavie (Roman) - 10 Banners Won, 50 Blocks Lost


Sorry for the late posting of the results, I had to deal with a back surgery and currently rehabilitating. It was a bloody and fun battle as I can remember and sorry for the short write up this time since I can really not sit straits to type )

Round 3
toganalpervsCavie




toganalper (Roman) - 13 Banners Won, 51 Blocks Lost
Cavie (Roman) - 10 Banners Won, 50 Blocks Lost


Sorry for the late posting of the results, I had to deal with a back surgery and currently rehabilitating. It was a bloody and fun battle as I can remember and sorry for the short write up this time since I can really not sit straits to type )

Round 1Cannea


toganalper vs stormwalker

toganalper (Cartagian) - 12 Banners Won, 26 Blocks Lost
stormwalker (Roman) - 4 Banners Won, 55 Blocks Lost


The Carthaginians were able to bring their heavy troops forward early in the game, attacking the roman flanks on both sides. The cart. cavalry trotted along the Aufidus river and encircled the roman right flank with some mounted troop attacks totally destroying that flank.

At the same time Hanno was attacking the left flank and being quite successful since Paulıus were quite away from the battle..

At the end it was big bloodshed and the gods (dice gods were very very unbiased on the Carthaginians side)

The battle was done in less then 2 hours and blood was all over the pitch except the far left flank near the mountains were the Mahrabal was waiting for his turn to help.

Thanks for a great game to stormwalker, as always he was a very nice person to play and enjoy every second of the fight.

EPIC02 Ilipa (206 BC) Gonzo vs stormwalker

The battle was waged and decided on the flanks. For details please see the log. Many thanks to Joe for playing!

Greg O (Carthage) 12 banners 51 blocks lost
mk20336 (Rome) 8 banners 57 blocks lost

This battle seemed to play somewhat close to history.

Rome advanced on the right and Carthage battled wsith it's cavalry, ending with 2 Roman Aux and 2 Roman M Cav eliminated before the action moved to the left with a Carthage double time with heavies pushing Rome, who countered with cav on the left into the Carthage Light Cav, who moved to refuse that flank. The middle settled into a standoff with several Darken the Skies exchanged and then Rome charged forward and busted a hole in the center of the line but Carthage refused both flanks of the hole and the center settled into an exchange of banners. Rome then made a strong push in an aggressive attack, looking for the banners needed to seal the deal in the overall trio of battles. Carthage took losses but pushed back and won the battle, with a group of heavies attacking all the way back to the Rome back row. Great battle, always a blast playing Epic with Michal K and the rest of this crew!

Round 3
EPIC03 Raphia (217 BC)


mk20336 vs. Gonzo

mk20336 (Seleucid) - 13 Banners Won, 42 Blocks Lost
Gonzo (Ptolemaic) - 8 Banners Won, 52 Blocks Lost

Our game was specific. We started before Christmas and were halfway through. Unfortunately, the save log disappeared both form my and Joe's computer (due to different reasons but similarly effective...) So we mobilized ourselves and restarted from the scratch today.

The game - as our first attempt - was mainly driven by very aggressive play of Seleucids on right / Ptolemaic left. In the end - after some lucky rolls and surviving leader escape - Seleucids completely routed that part of Egyptian forces. I had also two very lucky rolls killing the elephants.

On my left things started to crumble (also historically) as many brave Seleucids were killed or tramped by elephants there.
The game ended after clash of phalanxes in the middle, DT by Joe and my counter attack.

Great, ling and exciting game - thanks!

MT62 Final, GAME 1, EPIC 004 - ZAMA

MichalK (mk20336) vs. Togan

mk20336 (Carthage) - 14 Banners Won, 37 Blocks Lost
Togan (Rome) 10 Banners Won, 60 Blocks Lost

That was very exciting and interesting game. The number one unit i the game was definitely ELEPHANT. What those guys did was beyond my wildest expectations: they shattered whole Roman center and killed Scipio Africanus. All that in first three turns.

However, Togan is experienced player so he counter-balanced this by attack on my right with his superior cavalry - attack repulsed with significant loses. On my left / Rome right almost no action was seen, but at the end of the game the last points for victory were scored there.

Very, very tense game and a lot of fun! The reverse game still in front of us! Thanks to Togan for playing at pretty late time,

Game in two logfiles (I lost connection once):

For all interested, we will be playing second part of our FINAL games on Tuesday, April 2nd, at 1900 GMT (21:00 Central European Time)

MT62 Final, GAME 2, EPIC 004 - ZAMA

MichalK (mk20336) vs. Togan

mk20336 (Rome) - 11 Banners Won, 55 Blocks Lost
Togan (Carthage) - 14 Banners Won, 40 Blocks Lost

We just finished our second final game. What an exciting 2,5 hours it was... Let me tell you a little - the rest in the log file (it is interrupted just before last Togan attacks so really a small portion is missing)

We started slowly, I managed to put some lights to prevent dreadful Elephants in center - two of them were even dispatched. I lacked cards on left so my Med Cav was immobilized. I tried to attack with Numidians on right - the curious 3 light rolls on three 1d range shots was strange, but then I was repulsed.

I was like 3-3 when things started to get messy. Really messy - Elephants got Mounted Charge, my Light Cav on right was repulsed and it was 3-7 before I realized what is going on.

That was high time to do something - all my surplus from first game was gone. So I planned a round - which I will remember for a long time... Two Double Times plus Mounted Charge which scored me 6 points and moved the result to 9-7.

So you think it is easy now? Only two points to secure victory? And you have attack on lonely,unsupported 1 block medium cavalry, with your full-strength MC and leader? Piece of cake... unless you miss totally, and battle back wipes-out your cavalry AND leader.

Last turns was kind of cat-and-mouse, very tense play in which, somehow, I managed minimally to prevail.

I really like EPIC format - there is time, place and possibility to plan long-term, the leaders are really precious and simply, you cannot win by sheer lack due to number of banners.

Mark - thanks for another superbly organized MT.

Togan - thanks for such exciting games, pleasure to play with you!