Maharahah Trophy Battle from 1996

I dug into the archives to preprise a battle from our Maharajah Trophy competition of 1996 between Mark's Seleucids & Steve's Carthaginians.  In those days the battle reports were hand written with a steam photo added later.

In 1996 the battle was fought with our house rules of the day Marathon to Mafeking.  In our refight we used Hail Caesar with the OOB's converted to HC types.

 Mark commanded his infantry centre with Chris with his cavalry on the left & John on his right. 

 Steve had Jim with his right flank cavalry & Mike with his left flank cavalry.

Back in 1996 the hair was a different colour, but the umpire's outfit was the same.

The Seleucids are advancing in echelon their right forward from the far side of the table.  The Carthos are trying to advance on a uniform front. 

Battle commenced with some cavalry skirmishing on the far flank, then the Celts & Galacians charged eanch other in the centre.  Both sides held their cavalry back on the near flank.

 The Celts & Galacians both won one & lost one.

On the far flank: Although the Cartho cavalry did well initially, the Greeks reorganised & have now gained the upper hand.
The phalanx has locked onto the citizen spearmen in the centre.
The Thracians have sent one unit forward to attack the elephants & turned the other to the right to support the Galacians against the Scutari.
A unit of cataphracts has also been sent right to support the Galatians.
The cavalry on the near flank have finally got into the action.

The cavalry on this flank has split up into 4 separate action with the Carthos getting the upper hand.
On the far flank the Cartho cavalry is hanging on.
But in the centre the companions have charged the flank of the citizen spearmen & rolled up their infantry line from the left & Thracians have doen the same from their right.  Both Cartho infantry divisions have broken.  No Seleucid divisions have broken, so the Cartho's fail army morale & the 1996 result has been repeated.

It seems that Mark cannot reach as far across the table as he could in 1996.