Pyrrhus vs Rome.

Last night capped my day off just right!!-I'd had an exciting game in the morning and an absolute "corker" of a game with Paul and Brian at night-it's great being retired you know!!
The game last night was a Roman army besieging a town,with a Pyrrhic army coming to relieve it,complete with phalanxes and elephants!!Brian and I were the Roman commanders and Paul was Pyrrhus.

This is Pyrrhus surveying the table before any movement,Brian commanded the troops attacking the town from sea and land,whilst I commanded the Legions.

Brian's attack begins,his catapults,on board the galley,knocked the wall down in three moves!!-my hero!! however the troops using the ladders and towers weren't quite so lucky,and took a bit of a hammering !!

Meanwhile,in the centre,Paul and I have locked horns-my hastati against his peltast types,with the dreaded elephants!-The elephants in the foreground were beaten soundly and had to take morale-luckily they ran amok missing all troops and eventually "fell" off the edge of the world-phew!!

Oh no!! the elephants remaining have pushed my hastati unit facing them,back,and Paul has sent in his horse archers,causing me all kinds of trouble-I wonder how Brian is getting on!!!!

We're in-hurrah,we're out-boo!! swings and roundabouts,still,if nothing else he's a determined man,and kept the pressure on Paul all game-what we need are the marines to land-I'm told they have an exploding "limpet" duck,that Brian is going to stick to the wall with chewing gum!!-the man's mad!

An exchange of lines from the Romans saw the Princepes step forward,whilst Paul has withdrawn his peltasts and the horrible Phalanxes now face me-ooh er!!

Crash!!,my pila hardly dented the shields of the phalangites,but their sarrisas dented my troops!!-this was going to be Titanic(it sank didn't it??)-The remaining elephants have ben killed,and the cavalry battle going on on the left,has been drawn again!(6 draws in total-must be a record!)

My Romans have pushed the Phalanxes back,and my hastati are starting to move to the flanks,this is looking good-what is happening at the town?

The exploding "limpet" duck has done its job,and the marines have stormed into the town-hurrah!!(limpet duck's brother can be seen in front of the galley!!)

The final photo,with the town in Roman hands,and Pyrrhus' centre in a mess,the Romans were declared the winners of this great game-well done to Brian and Paul-this is what I like about wargaming-roll on Sunday,Graham should be with us,and probably a Marlburian game.

As this is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings,I think it would be fitting if we all said a silent "thankyou" to all the brave men who took part,all those years ago-Peace!!