Thursday 21 March 2019

The Huns take it out at the eleventh hour!

A slice of the action

Its always great to play a fun game on a club night.

Wednesday saw us play a tremendous battle using Simon Millers "To the Strongest" rules.  I have no doubt that for our club, Simon has reinvigorated ancients wargaming for us all.

It was great to have Jeff C join Steve and myself for a game of Late Romans versus Huns with grisly Frankish allies and even better to blood Angus into his first game of TtS.

The scene was set for 130 points a side as per the authors competition guidelines and having been outscouted as expected, the brave defenders of Rome deployed and awaited the onslaught.

A view of the central Roman command

Roman light cavalry, with just a few javelins having been thrown (OK the fell off and need to be super glued back on!).

Veteran Roman legios await the Hunnic advance

Roman Cavalry feeling quite confident

Steves Franks hit the centre whilst Angus and his cavalry harass the flank on the Roman right

In what was a fascinating battle, it would appear that the Barbarians would win and win easily.  Angus and his cavalry made very light work of the majority of the Roman cavalry on their right flank (Hunnic left) and then started to make their way towards the baggage and camp.
However on the Roman left Jeff, with the weaker force of raw auxilia and two veteran javelin armed light infantry decided to take the fight up to the Hun in spectacular fashion.
In the centre I had the cornist blow the horn and sounded a general advance. 
Romans on the advance as Jeff leads the way

Jeff indeed leads the way with a flurry of tactical genius.

All that was holding Angus up was this heavily outnumbered and outflanked unit of Roman cavalry and its brave commander.  Thanks to quite a few 1's being drawn for activation and some outstanding saves they managed to holdout for another five turns! Unbelievable. 

Another view of the Roman heroes

I love this army of Steves.  Wargames Foundry Huns and Franks.


The Roman auxilia

It was a spectacular game, heaps of fun and just epitomised everything which is great about wargaming.  Cant wait for the next one.

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    1. Thanks very much Jack Sarge - greatly appreciated.

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  2. Nice looking game, and sounds like it was fun to play which is the important part! 😀
    I’m kinda waiting for the V2 of TtS before trying it out.

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    1. Dont wait Stew as the rules are too good at present not to dive in and enjoy.

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  3. Goddammit! Missed another great game by the looks of it Carlos.
    Don't wait Stew, jump in now as V2 is a couple of years away.

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    1. Great looking game with nicely contrasting armies. I was going to say the same thing - don't wait for the 2nd edition, as it is quite a ways off. If you have ECW figures, try For King and Parliament by Simon and Andrew; there will be a lot about those rules on my blog shortly!

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    2. Absolutely agree Peter - the rules are wonderful and when the V2 comes out in 2020 you will be up to speed with it all anyway.

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  4. And the game and the army are very good! Thanks for the report 8)

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    1. Cheers K and thanks for your kind comments.

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