Thursday, February 17, 2022

Romans v. the Pontic Kingdom at Black Hills

 PeterC's Romans v. Jims' Ponts:

Pic from behind the Ponts after the first few turns.
The Pontic cavalry on their left was slow to get moving but is now advancing.
The Roman cavalry is on the opposite flank & is also advancing on the flank of their Galcian allies. 
Pontic peltasts are advancing to meet the Galacians while their own Galacians are being moved right to cover the flank of the phalanx.
The Both side's best foot are hanging back on their right flanks waitng for the enemy cavalry.

The Pontic plan began to unravel on first contact with the enemy.  The Roman's Galacians smashed the peltasts aside & charged on against the Pontic Galacians & phalanx behind.  A Pontic warband also disintigrated immediately.  The other Roman allied warband had little chance against the intact heavy phalanx, but that changed when 9 Pontic dice produced zero 4+'s.  The phalanx held on for a turn, but then with another shower of crap dice they joined the rout, leaving a gaping hole in Pontic line.
Meanwhile the Pontic cavalry threw themselves at the Roman legionaries.  The Roman shield wall & more crap dice soon disposed of 2 of the 3 cavalry units.
One of the victorious warbands stopped pursuing & is about to break the remaining Pontic foot in the centre to finish off the Pontic army morale for a crushing Roman victory. 

 


2 comments:

Mutford said...

Nice dice rolls. Reminds me of my rolling last week when my French were trashed by the Portuguese. Not often that happens.

anymous said...

as we know bad dice rolling happens