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Well, we came 2nd - with Khmer The scores were 10-0 (vs Crusaders) 5-5 (vs Hungarians) 10-0 (vs Parthians) 5-5 (vs the damn Abbassids) Well, we basically got to 30 with 2 mismatched games (El vs Kn (O)
and El vs Kn (X)), and 2 tough games (against Hungarian and Abbasid -
both excellent fun, swinging back and forth games) and in the end we
only got stiffed by the rules-based "random result last-round"
scoring system, as we lost 1 and 2 elements respectively in our 2
10-0's, (which the others definitely did worse than!!!), but our last
game was a bloody command each 5-5 against the Abbasids. We nearly held
out for a 7-3, but lost the CinC's command (eventually, and admittedly
deservedly!) on the last roll of the game, edging ahead with 25% losses
to 27% . The other team on 30 had a non-game, with a Spartan army
deploying in a steeply wooded pass next to a WW against a Patrician with
no Wb(S), so they both called it off after less than an hour, with a
couple of EE lost each side, so the Spartans had it. Highlights (& lowlights) were ... vs Hungarians - (Mick) losing the CinC's command, but then (me) re-taking the Hungarian CinC's command with a Ps (I) - who 6-1'ed 2 ranks of double overlapped spears in the penultimate bound vs Parthians (Mick) only losing 2 elements - the CinC and the El (X) - 48ap !!! - but in the last bound, so no rolling necessary!!! vs Abbasids (Me) losing 2 elephants to 6-1's, but catching the Abbasid CinC after an element-of-intervene allowed an auxilia to get round a pinningposition and inflict a fatal recoil into his flank. The biggest p*sser was that the eventual winners had had their 2
10-0's in their first day (one against Phil Barker's Ancient Brits - to
which they MUST have lost some troops!!!!!) and spent the second day
with two defensive match abandoned non-games where they dug in and
didn't even try to play - and still ended up above us!!!
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The Ancient Army List Index
The Rise of Rome (280 BC to 25 BC) Mid Republican Roman ; Late Republican Roman ; Gallic ; Pyrrhic ; Later Carthaginian ; Ancient Spanish ; Later Macedonian ; Later Seleucid ; Later Ptolemaic ; Attalid Pergamene ; Numidian or early Moorish ; Pontic ; Early Armenian ; Parthian ; Later Jewish ; Illyrian ; Spartacus Slave Revolt ; Bosporan ;
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Immortal Fire - The Greek, Persian & Macedonian Wars (550 BC - 146 BC)
Classical Greek ;
Early Achaemenid Persian ;
Lydian ;
Thracian ;
Syracusan ;
Early Carthaginian ;
Skythian or Saka ;
Kyrenean Greek ;
Late Dynastic Egyptian ;
Alexandrian Macedonian ;
Later Achaemenid Persian ;
Classical Indian ;
Early Successor ;
Early Sarmatian ;
Galatian ;
Hellenistic Greek ;
Graeco-Bactrian ;
Graeco-Indian and Indo-Greek
Legions Triumphant - Imperial Rome (25 BC to 493 AD) Dominate Roman ; Principate Roman ; Foederate Roman ; Later Sarmatian ; Early German ; Dacian or Carpi ; Ancient British ; Caledonian ; Early Alan ; Jewish Revolt ; Sassanid Persian ; Kushan or Indo-Skythian ; Palmyran ; Early Frankish, Alamanni, Burgundi, Limigantes, Rugian, Suevi or Turcilingi ; Western Hunnic ; Early Visigothic & Early Vandal ; Early Ostrogothic, Herul, Sciri or Taifali ; Early Anglo-Saxon, Bavarian, Frisian, Old Saxon or Thuringian ; Gepid or Early Lombard ; Early Scots Irish ; Early Pictish ; Hephthalite Hunnic ;
Swords & Scimitars - The Crusades (1096 AD to 1311 AD) Early Crusader ; Later Crusader ; Fatimid Egyptian ; Georgian ; Seljuk Turk ; Cuman ; Komnenan Byzantine ; Post Latin Conquest Byzantine ; Ilkhanid Mongol ; Mamluk Egyptian ; Cilician Armenian ; Syrian States ; Khwarazmian ; Ayyubid Egyptian ; Middle Serbian ; Middle Bulgarian; Medieval Cypriot ; Latin Greece ; Pecheneg ;
Eternal Empire - Eastern Europe and the Rise of the Ottomans (1300 AD to 1500 AD) Early Ottoman Turkish ; Later Ottoman Turkish ; Tatar ; Later Russian ; Later Serbian Empire ; Later Bulgarian ; Later Lithuanian ; Later Polish ; Later Teutonic Knights ; Catalan Company ; Middle Hungarian ; Moldavian or Wallachian ; Albanian ; Timurid, White Sheep Turcoman or Black Sheep Turcoman ; Later Hungarian ; Hussite ;
Decline & Fall - Byzantium and Islam (493 AD to 1071 AD) Early Byzantine; Maurikian Byzantine ; Thematic Byzantine ; Nikephorian Byzantine ; Later Moorish ; Later Visigothic ; African Vandal ; Italian Ostrogothic ; Early South Slav ; Lombard ; Avar ; Arab Conquest ; Early Bulgar ; Ummayad Arab ; Abbasid Arab ; Early North African Dynasties ; Khurasanian Dynasties ; Bedouin Dynasties ; Dailami Dynasties ; Pecheneg ; Ghaznavid ; Western Turkish (includes Khazar);
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