Round 2 - Indus
Game 1
g1ul10 (Seleucid) 6 - MarkMcG (Indian) 4
Game 2
g1ul10 (Indian) 6 - MarkMcG (Seleucid) 4
Game 1
The usual arrows from the Indians start the game, soon followed by an elephant charge that gets bounced and generates more damage through rampage than the actual attack. Seleucids move light inf to cover the line of heavy inf while Indians try to attack with light cavs on their right flank. The death of the elephant by Seleucid projectiles put Maurya in a sort of combat frenzy. Leading a heavy inf, with two successive DTs he cuts the Seleucid army like butter, eliminating one aux and one heavy inf, but loses his unit a moment after, by a combined attack of Selecuid elephants and medium cav, finally escaping the slaughter and joining a bow armed aux. At this point the game is 2-2 and Indians enter in sniper mode, rolling 5 green in a row against poor Seleucid skirmishers, definitely not used to such a precision. The returning fire is quite effective too. Emboldened by the excellent job of their archers. Indians try an attack with their chariots. Seleucid units survive thanks to evasion and counter with medium cavs and elephant, eliminating one chariot unit and Maurya himself. Indians, however, are not short of initiative and reiterate with a MC that eliminates the Sleucid medium cav and one aux, but an Indian medium cav is pulverized when attacking Seleucus heavy unit. The game is 4-5 for the Seleucids that with a CoS on an oddly positioned Indian light cav win the battle.
Game 2
Indians open by moving the bow aux and firing some arrows while Seleucids reply by firing in response and repositioning their archers in front of the heavies. Acknowledging the smart move of their enemies, Indians do the same and move their skirmishers near the Seleucid line. A sequence of skirmishes follows in the center section among light troops and auxilia but when Seleucus manages to bring his heavies into the fray, his soldiers get the better hand and easily destroy a couple of aux units. Game is 2-0 for the Seleucids. In the meantime a couple of Indian medium cav slip unnoticed behind the lines toward their right flank where enemy light units sit quietly thinking their contribution to the battle is over. Exploiting the local superiority in cavalry, the Indians try to harass these units. They lose one light cavs in a failed encirclement but eliminate one enemy unit. The game is 3-1 for the Seleucid and this is when the nameless Indian charioted leader decide his moment of glory has come. Supported by light cavs, he encircles an advanced Seleucid medium cav destroying the unit and killing the evading leader. Game is 3-3 and everything can still happen. An ineffective advance of Seleucid heavies in the center is followed by a similarly ineffective Indian cavalry attack on the right. The Seleucids light units are repositioned and fire, but two light units remain dangerously near their side of the map. The Indiam mediuam cavs see the opportunity and attack for a couple of medals. The Seleucid reaction by one aux and one light kills one medium cav. They prepare to kill the second when a lucky FT by the last standing Indian medium cav earns Maurya the victory.
