Another Tuesday Murder club meeting in February. This time the Assyrian muscle was trying to take on the Egyptians. The rules were black powder, but instead of a head on clash it was decided that only two divisions of each force would be deployed at the outset. The Assyrian Commander decided to field his cavlry heavy division alongside the Heavy Chariotry. Egypt went for 1 infantry group and one composed of several light chariot units. Reinforcements would arrive on the drawing of an A or and E from a scrabble bage, from move 2 onwards. At the end of a move the general would draw a letter if it was his own a dust cloud was seen and the division would arrive on the next turn. if it was not then the letter went back in the bag. The terrain square was nominated (we were using a 3 by 4 array of TSS tiles) and could be challenged and diced off for. A win by 2 spots or more allowed the opponent to move by 1 or 2 Squares.
The opening to the game saw the Assyrian cavalry being shown that they could not match the light cavalry tactics of the chariots. The Egyptians were held up but at great cost. In the centre the Heavies advanced on the Egyptian infantry and charged the centre. They bounced off. The unit charged had the mace axe, restricting the saving throw of th Assyrains to 5+ instead of 3+. Note to self, I should have bullied the archers to their right and broken through.
It took a couple of moves for the supporting infantry to arrive, and then they stood around for a while having failed command rolls. Meanwhile the Chariots re established sthemselves and started wearing down the Egyptians with bow fire. However, another attempt to break the line also failed and the infantry ended up fighting a valiant rear guard action to cover the retreat of the chariots and other sundry hangers on.
It was a good and colourful game using Steve's vintage troops. These are mainly Hinchcliffe from the 70s and 80s, but they still look good.
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