Battle of Bradun 119AD.

Talk about a game of two halves!!!-last night's game was certainly that.As Dave had "hoyed a sickie" it fell to Graham and I vs Brian and Paul....................

Top photo is the scenario,bottom is the table before any movement.
Brian and Paul commanded the Romans whilst Graham and I commanded the Britons-all was set for another epic game(of two halves,as you will see!)

Top photo shows Graham's ferocious advance against the Legion,which Paul is still manoeuvering into position,bottom photo shows Brian's charge against the "town" defended by the King and his "Hearth Troops"-so far so good(??)

To break up Graham's attack,Paul has formed the Legion into a chequer-board formation-who's a clever boy then??

Well, not so clever now,because Paul lost every single melee!!-he must have fallen out with the Devil,who normally makes sure that he throws high and kills officers like they are going out of fashion!!

On my flank,Brian is advancing his auxiliaries,but I didn't wait to be caught,instead I attacked across the river,and won every melee(now that is a surprise!!)-the Romans were in trouble,but what of the "town" melee??

Ah,well, some dismal dice throwing from me(so what's new?) saw Brian's Marines break down the "town" gate and started to give the "Hearth Troops" a right old bashing!!-is this the start of the second half??-you bet it was!

In the centre and on the far right flank,Graham is being held by the Cohorts(ooh can be very painful that!!) and the Romans are gradually pushing the Warbands back-about time you put your commander in chief into the fight to save the day!!!!(you just know what's coming don't you?)

Well,Graham did put his C-in-C into the fight,got him killed,and the warbands decided to re-evaluate their positions,and,well,not to put it too delicately,pissed off!!!!!
At this point Brian started to laugh and "guffaw" like a LOON,which does count for gloating,which is not tolerated in our club!!

Brian's Marines are burning the "town",so technically,the game is over,but not before my remaining warbands are getting a good old bashing from Brian's other auxiliaries-oh dear!

We are not running away,we are retiring(it's good being retired!)
What a good game this was,Graham and I thought we had won it by about move number 7,but by move number 10,we had lost it(some would say we had lost it a long time ago!!)
Roll on next week,if Dave is not too contagious we will be playing in his new wargaming room,and hopefully we will be playing an ACW game.