Monday 27 January 2014

Celts V Persians








 
Celts started lively (they had a plan) and moved towards the Persian infantry getting into javelin range on the first turn.
Persians struggled to form a firing line with so many missile units.
 
Celts could not string 2 orders together and missed the opportunity to attack, war band initiatives sending in odd units which hit lights and ground to a halt in front of the main Persian line.
 
Persian cavalry won it by charging on mass into a brigade of war bands and destroying it
Celt cavalry (4units)didn't make their presence felt
 
 
Persian victory


Monday 20 January 2014

WW1 myths debunked

Thought you might like this!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25776836


Sunday 19 January 2014

Celts V Macedonians

 
Celts V Macedonians









Celts tried a right/left swing searching for a way past the pikes but Stirling work by the Macedonian cavalry cut down any attempt on the Celt left flank.
With all their lights and most of their cavalry gone, the Celt commanders called it a day and went home for coco and an early night.
 
Result- Macedonian win
 
Rules update
I re read the rules for brigade charges and one order is all you need to send the attacking regiments in, or not, the choice is yours.
Second paragraph.
 
Thursday Celts V early Persians
and yes the camels are coming
 

 see you Thursday

Monday 13 January 2014

Celts week 1

Celts V Romans


 
A game of manoeuvre, with the Celts switching their attack from one flank to another.
When the crunch came the Romans showed their mettle
At the end both armies had taken losses with no side dominating
 
Result- Draw
 
next
Celts V Macedonians
 

Wednesday 8 January 2014

Scenery

Back scene brackets
 
Found some old clamps in the shed and thought aha!
Brackets for supporting back scene boards
game mat will sit over top part of bracket which is only 5x15x50mm
 
 
 
 
 
 
I now need to find a way of holding the board so it wont tip forward.
I also need the holding device to take different heights of board,
this one above is 15 inch
 


 
 
 


 


Monday 6 January 2014

Ancients

Ancients
Rule alterations/clarifications
 

Units at 50% or below cannot use their initiative to charge.
 
Up to 3 units can be joined together to form a brigade.
These all receive the one same order, units can join or breakaway
from the brigade but require a separate order.
 
Characters must lead from the front and may not leave when in combat
 
 
Lights will require an order with a -1 to charge into close combat unless target is also light
 
 
Melee units that move into 20cm of the enemy are pinned and
may only move towards the enemy
 (by the shortest route to engage in combat) or directly away from said enemy.
 
Units can shoot over friendly units as long as it is on a higher elevation
friendly unit must be nearer to shooter than enemy.
The Roman Ongar can fire over head at the same level.
 
Arc of fire for field artillery is a base width either
 side for scorpions and base width only for the Ongar.
 
 
 
Light horse when evading in their own
 turn can fire as they evade with a -1 to hit.
 
 
 
Pike units must move at half rate if turning/echelon.
 
 
Commanders
 
If a commander is attached to a unit in combat or under
 missile fire there is a chance that he will become a casualty.
Any unit(s) losing a round of combat and pushed back with a commander attached
 must roll 2d6 and achieve a result greater than the distance pushed back.
 If not then roll 1d6 1,2 good shield, 3,4 wounded -1 command, 5,6 dead Jim.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


The Celts

The Celts
This month instead of march I will be putting on some ancient battles and I thought I would like to add a theme.
So I give you the Celts
 
 

 
 
The Celts (/ˈkɛlts/, occasionally /ˈsɛlts/, see pronunciation of Celtic) or Kelts were an ethnolinguistic group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had a similar culture,[1] although the relationship between the ethnic, linguistic and cultural elements remains uncertain and controversial.
The earliest archaeological culture that may justifiably be considered Proto-Celtic is the Late Bronze Age Urnfield culture of Central Europe, which flourished from around 1200 BC.[2] Their fully Celtic[2] descendants in central Europe were the people of the Iron Age Hallstatt culture (c. 800–450 BC) named for the rich grave finds in Hallstatt, Austria.[3] By the later La Tène period (c. 450 BC up to the Roman conquest), this Celtic culture had expanded by diffusion or migration to the British Isles (Insular Celts), France and The Low Countries (Gauls), Bohemia, Poland and much of Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula (Celtiberians, Celtici and Gallaeci) and northern Italy (Golaseccans and Cisalpine Gauls)[4] and, following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC, as far east as central Anatolia (Galatians).[5]
 
 
Each week this month the Celts will be taking on a different opponent from the ancient world.
 
 
The Romans
 
The Romans knew the Celts then living in what became present-day France as Gauls. The territory of these peoples probably included the Low Countries, the Alps and present-day northern Italy. Julius Caesar in his Gallic Wars described the 1st-century BC descendants of those Gauls.
Eastern Gaul became the centre of the western La Tène culture. In later Iron Age Gaul, the social organisation resembled that of the Romans, with large towns. From the 3rd century BC the Gauls adopted coinage, and texts with Greek characters from southern Gaul have survived from the 2nd century BC.
Greek traders founded Massalia about 600 BC, with some objects (mostly drinking ceramics) being traded up the Rhone valley. But trade became disrupted soon after 500 BC and re-oriented over the Alps to the Po valley in the Italian peninsula. The Romans arrived in the Rhone valley in the 2nd century BC and encountered a mostly Celtic-speaking Gaul. Rome wanted land communications with its Iberian provinces and fought a major battle with the Saluvii at Entremont in 124–123 BC. Gradually Roman control extended, and the Roman Province of Gallia Transalpina developed along the Mediterranean coast.[46][47] The Romans knew the remainder of Gaul as Gallia Comata – "Hairy Gaul".
In 58 BC the Helvetii planned to migrate westward but Julius Caesar forced them back. He then became involved in fighting the various tribes in Gaul, and by 55 BC had overrun most of Gaul. In 52 BC Vercingetorix led a revolt against the Roman occupation but was defeated at the siege of Alesia and surrendered.
Following the Gallic Wars of 58–51 BC, Caesar's Celtica formed the main part of Roman Gaul, becoming the province of Gallia Lugdunensis. This territory of the Celtic tribes was bounded on the south by the Garonne and on the north by the Seine and the Marne.[48] The Romans attached large swathes of this region to neighboring provinces Belgica and Aquitania, particularly under Augustus.
 
The Greeks
 
 
The Celtic military pressure toward Greece in the southern Balkans reached its turning point in 281 BC. The collapse of Lysimachus' successor kingdom in Thrace opened the way for the migration.[4] The cause for this is explained by Pausanias as greed for loot,[5] by Justin as a result of overpopulation,[6] and by Memnon as the result of famine.[7] According to Pausanias, an initial probing raid led by Cambaules withdrew when they realized they were too few in numbers.[5] In 280 BC a great army, comprising about 85,000 warriors,[8] coming from Pannonia and split into three divisions, marched South in a great expedition[9][10] to Macedon and central Greece. Under the leadership of Cerethrius, 20,000 men moved against the Thracians and Triballi. Another division, led by Brennus[11] and Acichorius[12][13] moved against Paionians while a third division, headed by Bolgios, aimed for Macedonians and Illyrians.[5]
 
Bolgios inflicted heavy losses on the Macedonians, whose young king, Ptolemy Keraunos, was captured and decapitated. However, Bolgios' contingent was repulsed by the Macedonian nobleman Sosthenes, and satisfied with the loot they had won, Bolgios' contingents turned back. Sosthenes, in turn, was attacked and defeated by Brennus and his division, who were then free to ravage the country.
After these expeditions returned home, Brennus urged and persuaded them to mount a third united expedition against central Greece, led by himself and Acichorius.[5] The reported strength of the army of 152,000 infantry and 24,400 cavalry is impossibly large.[14] The actual number of horsemen has to be intended half as big: Pausanias describes how they used a tactic called trimarcisia, where each cavalryman was supported by two mounted servants, who could supply him with a spare horse should he have to be dismounted, or take his place in the battle, should he be killed or wounded.[15][16]


In the East, Persians
 

 
 

The Galatians were in their origin a part of the great Celtic migration which invaded Macedon, led by Brennus. The original Celts who settled in Galatia came through Thrace under the leadership of Leotarios and Leonnorios c. 270 BC. These Celts consisted of three tribes, the Tectosages, the Trocmii, and the Tolistobogii
Brennus invaded Greece in 281 BC with a huge war band and was turned back before he could plunder the temple of Apollo at Delphi. At the same time, another Gaulish group of men, women, and children were migrating through Thrace. They had split off from Brennus' people in 279 BC, and had migrated into Thrace under their leaders Leonnorius and Lutarius. These invaders appeared in Asia Minor in 278–277 BC; others invaded Macedonia, killed the Ptolemaic ruler Ptolemy Ceraunus but were eventually ousted by Antigonus Gonatas, the grandson of the defeated Diadoch Antigonus the One-Eyed.
The invaders came at the invitation of Nicomedes I of Bithynia, who required help in a dynastic struggle against his brother. Three tribes crossed over from Thrace to Asia Minor. They numbered about 10,000 fighting men and about the same number of women and children, divided into three tribes, Trocmi, Tolistobogii and Tectosages. They were eventually defeated by the Seleucid king Antiochus I, in a battle where the Seleucid war elephants shocked the Celts. While the momentum of the invasion was broken, the Galatians were by no means exterminated.
Instead, the migration led to the establishment of a long-lived Celtic territory in central Anatolia, which included the eastern part of ancient Phrygia, a territory that became known as Galatia. There they ultimately settled, and being strengthened by fresh accessions of the same clan from Europe, they overran Bithynia and supported themselves by plundering neighbouring countries.
The Gauls invaded the eastern part of Phrygia on at least one occasion.[3]

 
The Carthaginians
 
 
Hannibal departed New Carthage in late spring of 218 BC.[22] He fought his way through the northern tribes to the foothills of the Pyrenees, subduing the tribes through clever mountain tactics and stubborn fighting. He left a detachment of 20,000 troops to garrison the newly conquered region. At the Pyrenees, he released 11,000 Iberian troops who showed reluctance to leave their homeland. Hannibal reportedly entered Gaul with 40,000 foot soldiers and 12,000 horsemen.[23]
Hannibal recognized that he still needed to cross the Pyrenees, the Alps, and many significant rivers.[24] Additionally, he would have to contend with opposition from the Gauls, whose territory he passed through. Starting in the spring of 218 BC, he crossed the Pyrenees and, by conciliating the Gaulish chiefs along his passage, reached the River Rhône before the Romans could take any measures to bar his advance. Arriving at the Rhône in September, Hannibal's army numbered 38,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants, most of which could not survive the harsh conditions.[25]aginians

This should give you a flavour of this months up and coming games
I will be posting a few alteration/clarifications to the ancient rule set later.

Mark