When Nellie the Elephant met Pharoah Rammettuphem II

[davem]

I promised a AAR of Rammetuphem II’s latest adventures, so here goes:

I took NKE with 4 TC’s, Pharoah Rammetuphem II and his sons Prince Notahope, Haatwishiteon and of course, Prince Imphotent..
My opponent fielded Classical Indians with an IC and 2 TC’s.

The army was:
3 x 4 LCh, sup Bw
3 x 6 Mf, unprot. Bw
3 x 6 Hf, Prot, Lt Sp
1 x 6 Lf, Jv
1 x 6 Lf, Bw
All above drilled
1x 6 Lf Sup, Bw (Nubians)
1 x 8 Mf, Unprot. Imp Ft, Sw (Libyans)
1 x 8 Hf, Prot, Imp Ft, Sw (Sea Peoples)

I defended and the only terrain of note was a vineyard I placed centrally in my opponents ½ of the table to split his forces and one in my ½ in my center-right flank

I deployed with my Lf spaced in each 1/3rd, Nubians in the center aiming to get into my opponents vineyard. My Bw/Lt Sp groups were 2 Bw/ 2 Sp to my left and the other pair to my right but still central. My Mf Libyans also planned to head for my opponents vineyard behind the Nubians. The Sea People took the center supported by the Bw/Sp on their right and Lch to their left. The other LCh were to the right on my open flank, one well forward and the other supporting the Sea People and Bw/Sp BG’s.

My opponent placed from my left, 8 Prot Bw, El, 8 Prot Bw, El, 8 Mf Lsp, 6 Lf Bw, 8 Prot Bw, 8 Prot Bw, El, 8 Prot Bw, El, 4 Cv Sup Arm Lance, 4 Lh Bw. In rear support next to the Mf Lsp were 4 Indian Cv.

In my 1st bound I sent the Nubians and Libyans double moving to the vineyard under the command of Prince Imphotent, the Lch on the extreme right went forward to buy time commanded by Prince Haatwishiteon, while everywhere else I came forward slowly. The Indians came forward across their whole width.

In the next bound I started to pull back my Lf on the wings as they were facing big groups of Bw and would get slaughtered. The Nubians had traded shots with the Indian Lt ft no no effect so I pulled them behind the Libyans so there was no chance of getting “stuck” there as I readied to charge the Indian Mf. The Indian Lf then had the check to get 3 hits on the Libyans, who promptly dropped a level!

On my right the LCh were facing the Lancers while the Lh got around to their flank. The Indian archers and Lh shot at my LCh to no effect, my LCh promptly shot a lancer from his saddle! At this Prince Haatwishiteon charged the Lancer/Bw group and desultory combat flared up! With all our dice no advantage was gained by either side for several turns! My Lf Jv in the meantime had angled themselves to shoot at the Bw and promptly got 3 hits and dropped the Bw a level who also failed their death roll.

The Indian Lh charged the flank of Haatwishiteon’s LCh who still held on although eventually loosing 2 stands. What a hero!! Single handed they had taken a Bw, Cv and Lh BG out of the game.
My remaining LCh charged the Lh in the concluding bound.

In the center, Prince Imphotent bolstered the Libyans and they charged the Indian Mf in the vineyard. This too went on for several bounds as we drew impact and then both of us failed to get many hits after that. Eventually the Indian Cv were able to add their weight and finally the Libyans broke.

The key combat however was a Bg of el coming through to the right of the vineyard. I was now able to bring the Nubians and a BG of Chariots in to shoot and also had 1 stand of Ave Bw shooting. So 7 sup dice and one ave dice later I had 7 hits on the El who failed their death roll. Scratch one Nellie Bg!

To the left of the vineyard my 2 Bw/ 2 Hf Bg’s faced 2 Bw BG’s and 2 El Bg’s. A good couple of rounds of shooting dropped the Nellies to fragged. These broke when my Hf interpentetrated my Bw and charged Nellies and Bw, who went disr when the Nellies fled.

Finally in the center my Sea Peoples and the other Bg of Hf got into 2 Bw BG’s and made short work of them! Led from the front by Pharoah Rammettuphem II himself who in the melee struck down the Indian IC! At this the both Bw Bg’s dropped a level and the Indians were clearly doomed.

At this point my opponent conceded, I had broken 3 BG’s of Bw, 2 Bg’s of El, 2 Bg’s were fragged and he was about to loose his Lh and another Bw. I had lost only the Libyans and would probably loose my hero LCh Bg on base loss.

[philqw78]

And your problem with the NKE army was what? They appear to have done very well. Up the Pharoah

[nikgaukroger]

I think we need to know who lost - name and shame

[daleivan]

I'm impressed--the Nellie steamroller thwarted by Egyptian chariots and bow fire.

Dale

[Redpossum]

Thanks for a fun AAR. This was an enjoyable read, and it sounds like it was an interesting match-up.

[ahd1976]

What is NKE?

[Phaze_of_the_Moon]

What is NKE?

New Kingdom Egyptian

[vingthorr]

ah yes, a famous list of commanders. someone help me out with this one though "Haatwishiteon"

[philqw78]

Haat wi shite on.

The Pharoahs son with the worst milliner

[davem]

Haat wi shite on.

The Pharoahs son with the worst milliner

Quite. It is rumoured that this son of the Pharoah has spent some time "ooop noorth" and may have acquired some items whilst there......
Although my first tale of the great Pharoah and his sons indicated that this unfortunate lad was often used as target practice by sea-birds.....

[flamingpig0]

Nice AAR.

3 x 6 Hf, Prot, Lt Sp - has the NKE list now been changed last I heard the close fighters were going to be restricted to Mf

[davem]

Nice AAR.

3 x 6 Hf, Prot, Lt Sp - has the NKE list now been changed last I heard the close fighters were going to be restricted to Mf

Still running on Beta list where they're permitted to be Hf. I have run them as Mf. Bad mistake, any 1/2 decent Cv will just mow them down as they don't count as "spearmen" and if you loose impact you're toast.
If they are Mf only in the new book, then that's another nail in the coffin of FOG for me.

[hammy]

Nice AAR.

3 x 6 Hf, Prot, Lt Sp - has the NKE list now been changed last I heard the close fighters were going to be restricted to Mf

Still running on Beta list where they're permitted to be Hf. I have run them as Mf. Bad mistake, any 1/2 decent Cv will just mow them down as they don't count as "spearmen" and if you loose impact you're toast.
If they are Mf only in the new book, then that's another nail in the coffin of FOG for me.

Just use more chariots Dave......

FWIW there is nothing wrong with MF in FoG, it is just that you can't use them like you used the same troops in DBM.

[davem]

Nice AAR.

3 x 6 Hf, Prot, Lt Sp - has the NKE list now been changed last I heard the close fighters were going to be restricted to Mf

Still running on Beta list where they're permitted to be Hf. I have run them as Mf. Bad mistake, any 1/2 decent Cv will just mow them down as they don't count as "spearmen" and if you loose impact you're toast.
If they are Mf only in the new book, then that's another nail in the coffin of FOG for me.

Just use more chariots Dave......

FWIW there is nothing wrong with MF in FoG, it is just that you can't use them like you used the same troops in DBM.

But using more Chariots makes NKE just more like Hyskos, Mittani or (shudder) Ugaritic. Why not take Ugaritic if I want to run loads of chariots?
It was the foot supported by chariot synergy that really made NKE work for me.
However I will work on my list to see if I can fit 4 BG's of chariots in.

[nikgaukroger]

But using more Chariots makes NKE just more like Hyskos, Mittani or (shudder) Ugaritic. Why not take Ugaritic if I want to run loads of chariots?
It was the foot supported by chariot synergy that really made NKE work for me.

And you can still do this, plus with the foot being Drilled compared to Canaanite Undrilled it makes for a quite different army - you can't necessarily do it the same way as in DBM though so don't try and play it like that.

However, I will confirm that the close fighters are MF in the final book like the majority of bronze age and earlier infantry.