Successful Successors!

These Thursday morning games with Paul are just getting better and better -Todays foray into history pitted Ptolemy against Antigonus,and it was another "cracker" of a game!

Terrain map and table before any movement-I was Ptolemy and Paul was Antigonus(on the left of picture)

Top photo shows the "calm before the storm"-bottom photo shows the STORM!!-Billy Smart didn't have as many Elephants as this!!(but probably handled them better!)

Things are starting to hot up-my phalanx is advancing "En Echelon" and my first line of peltasts are advancing to contact Paul's-it's going to get messy soon!

Top photo shows my 2 strong phalanx units mixing it with Paul's units,bottom photo shows the Elephants running amok-I said it would get messy!!-Why would anyone have Elephants in their army by choice??-bloody things!

Top shot shows the on-going melee between phalanx units,bottom shot shows all of the phalanx units making contact-these melees went on for three or four moves before we both had units retiring(it's good being retired!)-look at the centre-the peltasts are slaughtering each other-neither side gaining a foothold!!

This is move 7,and my plan has just come to fruition-my second line peltasts are just about to hit Paul's phalanx in the flank-however,his second line of peltasts are still fresh and could sweep down on my centre,so we decided that a  draw was  a good result for both of us-at least I hadn't lost!

The final shot just had to go to the remaining Elephants-still rampaging around the place-absolutely great game,I lost 7 officers to Paul's 3-same old,same old!!! Roll on next week,maybe Brian can come along,you never know! Next week might be a Jacobite game.