We hadn't managed to get a game in for a couple of weeks so it was good to get back together again today. I had quickly thrown together a scenario based on one in the Age of Caesar book but using Early Imperial Romans instead of Caesarian ones and tweaked to suit our figure collection. A quick dice off decided that Ian would take control of the Romans who only had one Command figure in control of their six units of legionaries. That left Nigel and I commanding the Britons in three divisions.
The scenario had two units of Roman Auxiliary units foraging ahead of the main army suddenly confronted by a large force of British troops. Ian also won the dice off to take the first turn and he quickly recalled the foraging units and formed his Romans into a long line of battle. So Nigel and I did what the Ancient British like to do, we advanced into range then charged!
Initial deployment, British on the left, Romans on the right, with the foragers already safely recalled.
Ian sent his Moorish Light cavalry off on a flanking manoeuvre, an act which I tried to counter with my skirmish slingers but they were not very good at following orders.
On our left Nigel is advancing, our plan was to defeat Ian on the flanks then wrap up the centre.
Sadly it didn't work.
Here you can see the strength of the Roman line. In the centre my large Warband had heavily damaged the Roman cohort facing it, but had taken heavy damage themselves to the extent that Ian's Auxiliary Archers managed to finish them off.
Off run the large warband.
Nigel commits his left flank troops and after an epic tussle, his warbands were defeated and the division broken. Over on the right flank despite breaking a couple of Roman units my division was also broken so game over. This was quite an emphatic win for Ian and the Romans even though some of them had taken heavy casualties.
Great game as always.
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