Ancient Double Sized
DBA Battle between Indians &
Achaemenid Persians. The Indian Army is heavy with Elephants,
Chariots, Bows & Blades. The Persians have Spears, Cavalry &
deadly Scythed Chariots. General Jack would take the Persians &
yours truly the Indians. My army combined a Mountain Indian &
a Classical Indian selection. The tabletop was a
TerrainMat.
Scenery from commercial companies.
II/2 Mountain Indian
El(Gen), 2X2
Lh, 1x4
Bd, 4x3Ax, 4x2
PsII/3 Classical Indian
El(Gen), 2
xEl, 2
xHCh, 2x3
Cv, 1x4
Bd, 4x4
Bw--------------------------
II/7 Late
Achaemenid Persian
2
xLCh(Gen), 4X3
Cv, 4x2
Lh, 8x4Sp, 4x2
Ps, 2
xSChThe Indian Line up, Jumbos/Heavy Chariots in Middle.
Mountain Indians would take the left & the rough terrain.
Persian set up, Spears in the Middle, Light Horse & Cavalry
on each flank.
Overview of the set up.
General Jack with final adjustments to his Army.
Jacks view of the table
Nice views of the Indians. Note the shields on the Mountain
Indians to the right. 'Tiger' shields for
Auxillary, 'Leopards'
for the
Psiloi & 'Mountain Lion' for the Blades.
The Indian Heavies prepare to stomp the opposition.
They're off, nice Pips lead to a mass charge.
Jacks responds with just advancing his centre.
Persian General leading the Cavalry.
Funky Indian Camp guarded by a Bow element.
Jacks Scythed Chariots go straight
for the Jumbos.
The Cavalry
manoeuvre, advantage to the Persians with
greater numbers.
Persian Spears advance, there's some Mercenary Greek
Hoplites in there.
Nice view of the Persian Cavalry
The Jumbos make short work of the Scythed Chariots.
Now Jack throws in his Spears
The left flank is a battle of the Light troops
Crash! Bang! Wallop! The centre clashes, it was a big scrap.
High ground to the Persian Cavalry
Will Jacks General survive?
No.. he's mincemeat!!!! But a Jumbo goes down as well, this one
is close. With the loss of a General he needs to roll Pips
just to keep that command fighting. If he doesn't then they'll
be legging back to Persia!
The right flank fizzles out into a stalemate.
With Losses mounting, Jack's morale goes & he begs for mercy!
The Indians take the day.....
Nice battle, we loved the mixture of troops. I must admit there is
something about Chariots flashing across the table. Jacks mistake was
to put his General in the front line - I'm teaching him bad habits!
