Ancient Indians

 

These are all H+R except for the two larger elephants which are baccus

Sim City

Ancient city layout , just ordered some temple buildings for inner keep.

As soon as they are painted we will be fighting over this city

Thursday night Ancients

Another outing for the Magnus imperium rules

This time its Alexander versus Darius at the battle of issus

 Persians set up across Alexanders line of supply,

Greek mercenaries on the river edge 

Persian foot backing them up

 Alexanders army facing them 

numerically inferior but hopefully quality will tell

 Persian right wing which was meant to pin the Greek left flank on the other side of the river struggles to comply

 Greeks closing boldly

 Cavalry clash on the Persian left flank

 Greeks struggling to get to grips with the Persians

 Pressure from the Greek right flank begins to tell

Day ends and the Persians are still on the field 

Better luck next time Alexander

Thursday night game

So it was back to old school ancients this Thursday as frank commanded the Greeks and i took the Persians

 Greek Hoplites take the top hill 

 Persian centre and right 

Medes infantry hold the right hand side of the settlement whilst mercenary Hoplites and lights move up on the other side.

bottom right is the Persian reserve cavalry

 Greek left wing commander moves up 2 units of Hoplites and one of peltasts.

Persian bow and javelins moving thru the swamp to engage.

 Persians push forward on the left with lots of lights

 Greeks off the hill and into the Persians

 Persians were content to skirmish with the Greek right flank.

Greek wing commander couldn't get the Hoplites moving.

cavalry duel in the centre as Greek peltast and archers take on a medes regiment.

 Greek Hoplits slowly push back the mercenary hoplites.

Combined skirmish fire kept the Greeks at distance.

End game :- draw

Greeks could not get all their Hoplites into close combat where they outclassed their opponent.

The Persians were happy with that outcome too and were content to keep them away with bow and javelin fire.

Cheers Frank

Good game

Magnus imperetor

based on the fast play Grande armee rules

this week Greeks v Persians

Greeks left Persian right

Square Hoplite bases with round skirmish and cavalry bases

Persian light horse, like swarms of bees difficult to pin and destroy

Medes infantry reserve, plenty of skirmish capability

Persian immortals and apple bearers take the central hill

Medes infantry try to sweep to Greek right flank,

A reluctant commander (-1) lost his nerve and fell back twice

Greek hoplites close in on the hill

Persians hold the hill at days end and as neither army broke it was called a draw



Grande army ancients

just some pics of my ancients using the grande armee basing

Carthaginians

Spanish backed up by African foot

gauls , celtish cavalry and numidians

Roman legion in three line cohorts

Roman Italian allies and cavalry

Hastati front rank Pricepts second rank both with velite skirmishers

Gauls warband and elephants with skirmishers

Spanish and African foot with plenty of skirmishers

Numidians are skirmish cavalry