The Battle of Siddum Valley: Hittes v Elamites.
"Habiru, Bright Sun, King of the Hattie challenges Kutti, the base born King of the Elamites to Battle. He promises him a slaves yoke on the Hill of Goyim and his army shall be as bones and dust in the Valley of Siddum."
Today's game was a 6mm biblical clash using the Hail Caesar rules as usual. It was 400 points of my Hittites against the same total of Ian's Elamites (helped by Nigel). With large hills on either flank and the rocky hill of Goyim mid table it was an encounter battle made awkward by the central hill.
Habiru, King of the Hittites leaving the pub and on his way to the battle.
The Hittites deploy (bottom of the photo) with the Elamites at the top.
The rough hill of Goyim is central with larger hills either side of the valley.
Before the game I had made some cards with random leader values and a few traits. Nigel claimed 3 for the Elamites whilst Ian chose 3 for my Hittites - he very kindly (and unknowingly) dealt me the best card from the pack which I quickly allocated to King Habiru.
My Hittite right division (on the right of the photo) advance towards Nigel's left division and soon discovered that most of them were bow armed. These two divisions ended up in an almost all game face -off.
My Hittite centre division quickly advanced and took the central hill.
This is where most of my missile troops were.
On my left flank we had a great chariot v chariot clash and with the help of my Sea Peoples Warband infantry eventually broke Ian's division.
Back at the right, with my Hittite Spearman having taken most of the Elamite bowfire. I then got my own archers into a position and started to whittle away at their opposing archers. With the Hittites getting the upper hand on this flank, the far side Elamite division already broken the remaining Elamites withdrew to fight another day, hopefully next Tuesday afternoon.
Many are the Elamites that are now reduced to bones and dust.
King Kutti escaped but we will get him next time.
The card denoting King Habiru's leadership gave him Leadership 10 with a FV of 4.
That proved to be most helpful.(there was only one of them in the pack).
That looks great, amazing how good such small minis look.
ReplyDeleteWhat manufacturer(s) are they?
All figures are Irregular Miniatures 6mm, buildings from various sources, some stuff like the hills are scratch built.
ReplyDeleteExcellent looking game, and well fought out.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. The game was really good and could have gone either away until suddenly it all went well for me.
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