Round 3 Picenum
BrentS (Rome) - 8 banners won, 33 blocks lost
gottoman (Slaves) - 6 banners won, 37 blocks lost (but rallied 2, so maybe 39 lost, we couldn't remember the tournament rule on this)
This is another complex scenario. Is it the only one that uses the Rolling Fire rule? (if so, why isn't just a SSR for this scenario alone?). The Slaves used two of their Warriors first order to roll fire on the Roman lights, successfully causing retreat and carnage on one of them, then we realised that both Warriors lost a block.....and that was that for rolling fire for the rest of the battle
The Slave left advanced and looked very dangerous but the Romans held firm and surrounded and killed Spartacus on a leader escape. A Mounted Charge ended the Slave impetus and with both sides depleted on that flank, the action there wound down to desultory ranged fire from the Roman war machine and Slave slingers.
The remaining banners were obviously going to be won on the Slave right, which had seen almost no orders to that point. The war machine there did some damage, then the legions grouped and pulled off two consecutive Double Times I'd been holding to pin the Slaves and end it.
An entertaining game, thanks Greg. No Slaves escaped and I managed to forget only once that I couldn't order units in both armies (which was pretty good, I thought
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