Wednesday, December 21, 2022

The Standard of Teshub : 6mm Chariot Age Hail Caesar

 

For our final game before Christmas we decided to get the 6mm chariots out again. I adapted a scenario from the 'Age of Bronze' book for a 4 player game. 

The Standard of Teshub

Four x 300 point armies (three commanders per 300 points). Scenario loosely based on the Battle of Isuwa p90 of the Age of Bronze. Dice for who allies with who. The two highest scores ally together as do the two lowest. All leaders are Command Level 8.

Terrain: use map on p92. Dice to see who chooses which table edge. Dice again to see who deploys first (each side will deploy a division at a time, taking turns to do so) and then again to see who takes the first move.

Objective: set piece battle to break the opposing army and also gain control of the Standard of Teshub.

The Standard of Teshub: the god Teshub is worshipped by all. All 4 players dice to see who is control of the Standard of Teshub, highest throw wins and deploys the standard with his C-in-C. Ownership of the Standard improves that commanders leadership level to 9. If at any time during the game, that command figure retreats, withdraws, is defeated in melee, fall backs or routs etc... then he loses control of the Standard and his Leadership level falls to 7. The Standard then falls under the control of the nearest opposing commander whose leadership level now rises to 9. If the new owner ever falls back etc...his Leadership will drop to 7 and the new owner rises to Leadership 9...and so on through the game until one force is broken.

The dice decided that Charlie (Elamites) and myself (Hittites) deployed on the left and Ian (Egyptians) and Pharaoh Phil (also Egyptians) deployed on the right. 
Each force was 300 points, so 600 points per side with 6 leaders per side.
The Standard of Teshub was granted to my Hittite C-in-C. 

On turn 1 I was able to move rapidly and grab the hill on my flank. 
This hill became a real central point of fighting on this side of the battle. 

The Hittites await the advancing Egyptians. 

Long line of nasty Egyptians. 

The Hittite chariots (bottom of photo) advance in the centre with the Standard of Teshub towards their cowardly Egyptian counter parts who run off!

There was also a very bloody clash between Charlie's Elamites and Ian's Egyptians on the left flank. Another real blood bath. 

On the 'hill of death' fortunes seemed to swing in my Hittites favour initially, but then suddenly back in Pharaoh Phil's favour. All divisions over here were close to breaking. 

Spot the green disc under the Hittite command chariot, this was the Standard of Teshub. My commander spent all game driving around the battle field and he managed to cling onto the standard for the whole game. 
After seven frantic, action packed turns the Egyptians had lost two divisions and the rest of their force was badly damaged. The Hittites and Elamites had lost one division but were also looking fairly battered. However, as they still possessed the Standard of Teshub we called it a very narrow victory to the Hittite/Elamite alliance. 
This was one of the bloodiest and closest fought battles we have ever had. Great fun. 


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