My cloud of skirmishers annoyed the Dacians to death for almost 20 turns before I fumbled through an attack that I did not think would succeed. Tying the warbands up enough to hit with my weaker units on the flanks proved to be the difference. I almost want to apologize for being annoying. Thanks for the match.
This was a really tough battle, as the numbers suggest, and it could have gone either way. But, at the end of the day, Mars was behind us and the luck fell our way. Thanks for a really great game, Bluefin, and bad luck.
(7) phoyle3290 - Jewish Revolt 66-135 AD defeats (5) Supervark - Lombard 493-567 AD - 41-12
His cavalry tried to outflank me on both sides, but I was able to get rid of his infantry quickly before the cavalry forces arrived. It was a smart move by my opponent that just didn't pan out as planned. Good game. Thanks for the match!
devoncop (Arkanian) beat Paul McNeil 57% to 32% on the very last turn.
A highly wooded and hilly map saw the Arkanians having serious problems against mass Javelin Cavalry and Thracian medium foot that came streaming out of the woods mid game. Paul was very unlucky with rallies and perhaps ironically got his only rally of the game on the last turn which reduced his losses from 60 to 57% but which nonetheless gave me the very minimum margin to just scrape the win.