OT2017 Round 1

Game 1
Latin: Mark McG - 5 banners
Roman: Mantra - 1 banner

Surprisingly lengthy game for a 5 banner match, little over 2 hours. Lot of missile fire and jostling looking for an opening. Roman cavalry attack misfired losing 1 banner, but a 2nd attack that seemed to go badly wrong earned the Romans a banner without loss. After 90 mins play (and it was moving along) the score stood at 1:1

The decisive move was a Move-Fire-Move where the Latin Auxilia could close up on the Roman MC, and the counter charge by the Med Cavalry was smacked down. From then on the Latins had the better of the dice and brought down an Auxilia, Manlius himself, and finally an evading LC on a 4d attack.

Game 1
Roman: Armada01 (Tony) - 5 banners
Latin: Plainscape - 1 banner

Romans started game with 2 mounted unit cards and early on got the 2nd Mounted charge card. Also had to leadership cards at beginning. Romans moved on Latin right flank causing it collapse in defeat.

Game 2

Latin: Armada01 (Tony) - 5 banners
Roman: Plainscape - 1 banner

The Latins steadily moved on the Roman Right flank. The Romans suffered for the lack of Leader on that flank. This severely limited their attack and battle back rolls. That would have made a huge difference in this battle. The Latins crushed the Roman right flank.

Guys pay attention: Roman army has TWO leaders. The game included in the VASSAL module is faulty. It lacks the leader accompanying the rightmost medium infantry. Add the leader yourself or use the saved game I included in the second post of this thread.

Too late, we played the battles before the info came out.

Game 1
Roman: Mark McG - 5 banners
Latin: Mantra - 3 banners

Roman MC and Bowmen took the battle to the Latin Right, knocking out the two LC. A good move because the Mounted Cards did little for Chris from then on. The MC then took out an AUX and a LI on this flanks as well.

The Latins moved up on their left, with their invulnerable Warriors. No missile could touch them. Unfortunately not true for the Roman MC, both perished under a hail of Latin javelins.

In the face of imminent defeat, the Latin Left hurried forward, and the Warriors got 4 Green hits on 4 dice against an evading Light Slinger. I've never seen that before, a 1 in 1296 chance!! Like watching a miracle.

A responding Clash of Arms started poorly, but 10 dice managed to take out the Latin Warriors for the win. Looking very iffy for the Romans if it hadn't paid off.

Also, I never got to play the First Strike I carried all game, my first time in my last 19 games of CCA. I cried..

Game 1
Latin: BrentS - 2 banners
Roman: MichalK - 5 banners

Interesting game. We started with skirmish on the left, which actually resulted in Brent's forces splitting into two formations (left and right). I managed to relocate my LC to center and execute Mounted Charge - not with some great effect (1 unit eliminated) and in the counter attack I lost MC. However, I pushed on my left / Brent's right, providing steady flow of new troops - MI and W from Brent's left were in no position to come to rescue on time.

Then my cards for left section finished... So we started to fight in center, where I lost LC on 2d evade (rare thing, 1 in 36 - definitely not what Mark saw in his game!)

It was then "cat and mouse", which finished in final banner being scored by AUX.

Good game, interesting scenario and a lot of opportunities.

Latin: gcallari - 5 banners
Roman: Giulio - 4 banners

Essentially played on Latin left, with a slow but relentless advance by me and heavy and bloody raids by Giulio. Two leaders dead, one per side, both on two-dice checks. Roman had bad luck on first assault losing two medium infantries to a clash of shields, but recovered quickly with a good I am Spartacus roll and an arrow storm which killed two Latin units (a medium infantry and a warrior) and a leader. After that, he lost an auxilia and a leader, then there was a little cavalry interlude on the Latin right, when the LCs went to pepper the Roman MCs out, but ended repulsed later by a mounted charge (one dead with a triple LIT roll and another battered). A last advance by the Latin auxilia on the left brought the game to an end.

I'm sorry, but I forgot to record a log, so I'm attaching the final position in lack of better data.

Please find attached the log file of the scenario between me (giulio) and Gabriele (gcallari).

2nd match

BrentS (Roman) 5 - mk20336 (Latin) 4

I had a big deficit to turn around from the first match and, far from doing that, looked like I was going to lose this one as well. A hand of left cards tempted me into an early cavalry assault to pin the Latin light cav but Michal had enough cards to pull his centre across, and kill both my medium cav and my leader on a 1 die check. He then attempted a river crossing but got mired down there with a disadvantage in the ranged dueling. He finally got his Warrior into play with a leader attached and at 3 banners to 2 made a an attempt to kill me in the centre, but scored only one banner. With a long held, Double Time I was able to kill an Auxilia, the Warrior and force a successful leader escape for a 3 banner haul on one card play to pull it out of the fire. Exciting finish.
Thanks to Michal for a couple of fun games.

Brent.