Chaos Tourney

[Karvon]

OK, here's an update to the scoring and games completed so far...

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u = publicly posted;hopefully underway.

Karvon has taken the lead, for the moment, with 4 wins out of 5 games.

Schweetness101 has completed 8 of his 10 matches.

SnuggleBunnies has the greatest margin of victory with his 49-0 win.

General Shapur has the narrowest margin of victory with his 60-58 win.

Keep those games going and let's see some more reports coming in.

Karvon the Chaotic

[Challenge1]

Challenge1 (German) Draws with Schweetness101 (Dacian) 30-27 - Battle Timed Out

The Dacians drew up the majority of their forces on a large hill, situated on their right flank. There was some desultory skirmishing between the light troops before the German commander decided the Dacian position was too strong to assault. Meanwhile on the German's right they sent their lancers and light cavalry forward to try and entice the remaining Dacian forces to advance. Unfortunately, the intended advance was ambushed by Dacian troops hidden in a forest protecting their left and although no serious casualties arose, the German probe was checked and had to withdraw.
The Dacians eventually began to come off their hill, after giving the German light troops a good thrashing. They also followed up the retreating German cavalry on their left, but ran into spears and more spears and the ensuing mass brawl between the Dacian warbands and the German shieldwall deteriorated into the usual pushing and shoving match.

Night fell before either side could inflict enough casualties to rout the opposing army.

[SnuggleBunnies]

SnuggleBunnies (Dabuyid) defeats General Shapur (Assyrian) 52-5

The battle was divided into 4 distinct stages. At the start of the day, the Assyrian army had deployed with their foot on two enormous hills (over height 100), one of which was also protected by difficult slopes. Their cavalry were on the flanks. The Dabuyids had deployed a long line of their fearsome Dailami Infantry, extending into a large forest. Their cavalry deployed to their right.

1) The majority of the Dailami force wheeled right to attempt to outflank the Assyrian left wing cavalry. As they do so, the Assyrian right wing cavalry, supported by some of their infantry descending from the Difficult Sloped hill, pursued, pelting the 'withdrawing' Dabuyids with arrows and sling stones. The Dabuyid right continued to forge ahead, but the center about faced to confront their tormentors. As they did so, about 2000 Dailami Infantry concealed in the forest burst out and crashed into the Assyrian's flanks. Most were broken and fled, but about a thousand made it back to the Difficult hill, while another 500 would rally with their friends at the other great hill.

2) On their left, the Assyrian cavalry and chariots confronted the Dabuyid right wing. The Dabuyid horse was not as brave as their opponents, nor did they carry light lances as their foes did. However, with support from skirmishers and infantry, they drove off the Assyrian left.

3) About 3000 Dailami foot stormed the difficult sloped hill from all sides, under a hail of arrows. The defenders, outnumbered 3-1, could not cover the whole length of the hill, and were surrounded and driven off or cut down.

4) The Dabuyid army slowly surrounded the remaining Assyrians, and eventually attacked from all sides. Some of the defenders were on gentler slopes, and assaulted from two sides. Others had been shaken from missile fire, or hadn't quite recovered their spirits from having fled in the earlier fighting. As the Dabuyids broke through to the top of the great hill, a slaughter ensued.

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[SnuggleBunnies]

SnuggleBunnies (Hebrew 681-586) defeats Challenge1 (Arab (North Africa) 1100-1160) 54-20

GG

[Challenge1]

Challenge1 (Galatian) defeated SnuggleBunnies (Rus) 61-51

A bloody encounter where the Galatian warbands managed to out last the Rus shieldwall. It was touch and go for some time but the Galatian cavalry on the left managed to hold on long enough to deny the superior Rus cavalry from making a telling contribution while the Galatian warbands surged forward. Once the shieldwall started to break and with their cavalry still not able to come to their aid, after despatching the Galatian mounted, the warriors were able to use their superior numbers to overwhelm the Rus spears.

GG!

[SnuggleBunnies]

SnuggleBunnies (Palmyran) defeats Karvon (Median) 44-11

GG

[General Shapur]

General Shapur (Ach Persian 553-546BC) defeates Karvon (Thracian 329-281): 40-30

Two weak CC armies and and 2 large forests on opposite sides of an open field was always going to lead to a hesitant battle.

As usual, Karvon probed with his skirmishers and light cav getting some early hits. But Persian archers took their toll also. In the end, sensing he might have the edge in warrior backbone Karvy threw in the line troops and elite cav.

Sadly, for the plucky Thracians, with not enough turns to see the plan thru and the Persians not being the jelly backs they seemed to be earlier, the Persians came thru with a somewhat bloodless victory.

[Karvon]

General Shapur (Ach Persian 553-546BC) defeates Karvon (Thracian 329-281): 40-30

Two weak CC armies and and 2 large forests on opposite sides of an open field was always going to lead to a hesitant battle.

As usual, Karvon probed with his skirmishers and light cav getting some early hits. But Persian archers took their toll also. In the end, sensing he might have the edge in warrior backbone Karvy threw in the line troops and elite cav.

Sadly, for the plucky Thracians, with not enough turns to see the plan thru and the Persians not being the jelly backs they seemed to be earlier, the Persians came thru with a somewhat bloodless victory.

Actually, it's a 2-2 draw as neither army was broken and we both killed at least 25% of the enemy.

...and yeah your guys got a second wind there towards the end between your rallies and passing morale checks.

GG

[Challenge1]

Challenge1 (Roman 490-341BC) defeated TheGrayMouser (Pontic 84-47BC) 43-6

With the Pontic forces not being able to bring their superior cavalry to bear and some easily defensible terrain on the Roman right, the army of Pontus struggled to find a foothold on the battlefield. The Roman hoplites were more than a match for the motly, hodge podge of Thracians, Cataphracts and wannabe legionaries and with seemingly little fight (unlucky cohesion checks), the Pontic army steadily collapsed.

GG!

[General Shapur]

Draw of the century

General Shapur Avar drew GreyMouser Welsh 59-59

A long no quarters battle of cav archers vs scores of infantry - in the end we were fiching with just a few units as the field was strewn with the dead

Good game indeed!

[Karvon]

Challenges... TheGreyMouser

PW = karvon

pm sent

[Karvon]

Karvon (Parthians) defeated Challenge1 (Byzantines 620AD) 67-45 4-0

Parthian archery whittled down advancing Byzantine horse. Wild back-and-forth battle saw Cat's break and chase off a number of opposing lancers. Both sides broke and chased offboard some horse. Pursuing Parthian light horse herded a number of Byzantine routers far from the battle never to return. Several worn out Byzantine lancers swept away in a final flank attack, breaking the army.

A hard fought and interesting battle.

Karvon the Chaotic

[Karvon]

Here's another update as of today.

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Record = Wins-Ties-Losses D = Enemy Destroyed L = Own Losses

With 8 of his 10 games completed, SnuggleBunnies (6-0-2) has the lead with 25 pts.

General Shapur wins the Rabbit award for finishing all 10 of his games first.

Most everyone's down to 1-2 games left to play, so a very good rate of completion.

Karvon the Chaotic

[Schweetness101]

Schweetness101 (Spanish 718-899) defeats TheGreyMouser (Persian 224-349) 63-57

was a very close game of course. The terrain was very favorable to Spain with water and mountains creating a narrow and easily defended pass in the middle of the map. See an image here from about mid game:
https://imgur.com/e7PkPR3
Spain lined up a combination of cheap defensive spearmen on the flanks of a rough patch in the middle of the pass, and bowmen with irregular foot on the rough ground in the middle, with a complement of light foot in front and in the forest on the left and lancers lined up behind. Spain also had a secret force of light foot, cavalry, and lancers hidden in a swamp on the right that guarded a one tile wide pass through the otherwise impassable mountains. In the screenshot above these forces have already left the pass and attempted to flank to somewhat mixed success. Meanwhile, on the main line persian light foot and horse archers skirmished with the spanish ranged, the persian ranged cav withdrew, and the cataphracts crashed into the cheap spanish defensive spears, breaking some of them and in a few cases getting behind the line. Some cataphracrts broke through and managed to flank while others were themselves flanked by spanish lancers kept in reserve. By the end the battle had devolved into the total chaos seen below:
https://imgur.com/ThVDX3P
Persia broke and scattered multiple lancer units with cataphracts and elephants, and some of the Persian spears finally broke fighting the spanish spears and cavalry. Both sides suffered very heavy losses and it could have easily gone either way, but it ended at the hard 60% cap.

GG to TheGreyMouser.

[SnuggleBunnies]

SnuggleBunnies (German) defeats TheGrayMouser (Turkish) 64-46

The Turks goaded the German lancers into a premature charge by harassing them with arrows. This went badly for the Germans, who mostly were unable to catch the Turks, and then shot out of their saddles and attacked in the flank. Luckily, some survivors regrouped, and the arrival of infantry in the support of spearmen and massed archers saved the day, the Turks being low on arrows at this point.

A close, chaotic game.

[SnuggleBunnies]

SnuggleBunnies (Arab Syria/Iraq) defeats TheGrayMouser (Roman) 62-40

Squishy Arab foot were squished, but swarms of lancers won the day.

GG

[Challenge1]

Clearly real life is playing havoc with TheGrayMouser's gaming schedule so, for the sake of closure, I would like to report a defeat at his hands from some weeks ago.

TheGrayMouser (Armenian) defeated Challenge1 (Thracian) 65-59

Really good game!

[TheGrayMouser]

Clearly real life is playing havoc with TheGrayMouser's gaming schedule so, for the sake of closure, I would like to report a defeat at his hands from some weeks ago.

TheGrayMouser (Armenian) defeated Challenge1 (Thracian) 65-59

Really good game!

Haha, real life forgetfulness. It was a great game, I recall you skillfully infiltrating villages and reeking havoc on my forces with converging Zoc’s!! Thank for posting!

Sorry all of the slow play and reporting! I have one last game to report ( with karvon) and one final game wrapping up ( also with karvon)

[Karvon]

Here's another update to the standings. TGM and I are in the final throes of the last game, so a final update will be out probably in a few days or so.

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SnuggleBunnies has finished a top the leader board with 8 wins against 2 losses for a final score of 33 and an unassailable lead on the rest of us. Well done!

Karvon the Chaotic

[Karvon]

Karvon (Antigonid) defeated TheGreyMouser (Carthaginian 490BC) 63-52 for a 3-1 win.

A large forest sealed off our right. Beyond that, was a rise with a lot of rough ground. Several small hills rose on our left, also dominated by rough ground. A small woods lay in about the middle of the field. Beyond that, the enemy right was almost completely sealed off by a belt of rough ground and another small forest.

We deployed a phalanx of six pikes in the center, screened by a line of light foot with light horse anchoring each end of the line. We didn't have near the medium foot of the enemy, but we placed one on our more open left and two on the more congested right. We deployed one cavalry on each flank to support the skirmish line. In reserve we held our 3 lancers flanked by elephants.

The Carthaginians deployed in three wings; a large block of medium foot in the rough ground on the rise on our right screened by a lot of light foot, some spears supported by a few light and medium foot in the center and some medium foot and a few lights on the right. Some cavalry was visible in reserve on his right.

I decided to focus on the left as the ground was more open there than on the right. I pushed everything hard in that direction. The Carthaginian rushed his mediums on his right forward to secure the hills and rough ground and wheeled his left to pursue, leading to a rather lopsided fight on my right where some of my lights and mediums got caught and forced to face superior numbers in order to allow the rest of the army to redeploy as planned.

The main fighting took place on the left hills in and around the small woods and rough ground. My initial overwhelming numbers allowed to surround and destroy his opposing mediums, but they hung on longer than I hoped and he brought his spear and other mediums into a growing and swirling melee. The broken ground inhibited how easily I could shift and commit my phalanx, lancers and elephants and allowed him to flank me on several occasions, but eventually the phalanx, supported by a surviving elephant and lancer prevailed and ground down enough of his foot for the final win.

A very hard fought battle.

Karvon the Chaotic