The Dustbin

[stockwellpete]

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Weekly round-up
Two wins for ianiow (of Arabia) this week sees him close the gap to 3 points on current leader Cunningcairn (Egyptian). Further down the table pantherboy (Kyrenean Greek) registered his second win from 2 starts. deve finished his Division B campaign with 2 wins to overtake devoncop (Arkanian) at the top of the table leaving desertedfox (Egyptian) a target of 12 points from his remaining 4 matches to win automatic promotion.

Unbeaten runs of 3 matches or more

desertedfox (Division B) 5 matches
deve (Division B) 6 matches and finished
devoncop (Division B) 6 matches

Match completion rate (45 matches in total to be played in each division)
Division A - 26 out of 45 matches completed
Division B - 27 out of 45 matches completed

These are good match completion rates.

Player of the week
ianiow (Division A) and deve (Division B) both with 2 wins this week.

[Triarii]

Div A

Triarii - Carthaginian, Hannibal in Africa 202 BC beats Cunningcairn - Macedonian 328-321 BC 61-34

A very much closer game than the final score suggests - thanks to Cunningcairn for a very bruising game.

[stockwellpete]

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[Triarii]

Div A

Triarii - Carthaginian, Hannibal in Africa 202 BC beats youngr - Roman 219-200 BC 75- 25

Sometimes nothing will go your way and I can only apologise to youngr for my good luck in this where results nearly all went my way and when ever the good Roman foot could pushback in the wrong direction they did.

[Triarii]

Div A

Triarii - Dailami 928-1055 AD (Arab (Syria/Iraq) 1009-1150 AD allies beats Cunningcairn - Viking 900-1049 AD (Irish ally) 43-17

Thanks again for a good game.

[stockwellpete]

There will be no changes at the second Time Control check as everyone has either satisfied the requirement or has plenty of matches now in progress. Thanks very much everyone.

[stockwellpete]

This poll is now closed. It has a clear majority in favour of a small exemptions list and this will be introduced for Season 6.

[lydianed]

Division D

lydianed (Gepid) defeated SawyerK (Ptolemaic) 52:20.

The Ptolemies occupied two hills a long way apart. The gepids marched straight past the first, being showered with arrows through some atrocious terrain to invest the second hill. The greeks abandoned their first hill and were set upon by the gepids and defeated in detail. Two large pike phalanxes eventually crumbled to seal the win for the boys with the large number of horses.

[Bluefin]

Division D

Bluefin (Syracusan) defeats SawyerK (Seleucid) 62-48.

The rally cry was big in this one and ultimately turned the tide. Otherwise, great battle that could've gone either way. Thanks for the game!

[harveylh]

Division A

harveylh - Arab (Umayyad) 685-750 AD (no allies) defeats Triarii - Dailami 928-1055 AD (Arab (Syria/Iraq) 1009-1150 AD allies), 60-33.

Great game with my opponent who played well particularly with his LC, but was hampered by three Arab MI bow on a hill overlooking the center of the battlefield that disrupted seven of his units over the course of the game.

[lydianed]

Division B

A couple of results not in the lists:

desertedfox (Egyptian) defeated (some time ago!) lydianed (Lydian) 66:39


lydianed (Lydians) drew with uneducated (Hebrew) 53:36

(2-2)

[lydianed]

Division B

lydianed (Lydians) defeated Barrold713 (Corinthians) 46:18

[lydianed]

Division B

lydianed (Lydians) challenges Ulysisgrunt (Cypriot) pw: Ulysisgrunt

PM sent.

[MikeMUC]

Division B

MikeMUC - Assyrian defeated uneducated - Hebrew 64-49

[uneducated]

Division D
uneducated (Jewish 163-111 BC) defeats MikeMarchant (Roman 105-25 BC) 60/53

Match Void - already Played

Sorry to be a pooper but you two have already played this match . . .

Re: Classical Antiquity: winners post your results here . . .

Post by MikeMarchant » 07 Jun 2019 21:18
Division D

MikeMarchant - Roman 105-25 BC beat uneducated (Jewish 163-111 BC) - 64/24

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The Battle of Whirlpool

There is a pool in Judea. Its waters are red with blood.

I started this battle, as every battle, with only the faintest hope of winning. The only prospect was to somehow capture the high ground on the left flank by moving at breakneck speed and, in fact, running faster on foot than MikeMarchant could move with his horse.

I got off to a flying start, but his weather eye too quickly saw my intention and his horse beat me to the North of the Whirlpool before I could arrange my line. The head of my column were frantic to break through his horse, or the entire line would be left out of position.

By some battle turning fortune, a Zealot, frothing with conviction somehow punched through and allowed the column to continue its move onto the banks to the West of Whirlpool. The entire battle revolved around that pool. The armies chased each other around and around it, each thinking they were pushing the other down into the vortex. First one side were crawling out of it, then the other. Combatants on all sides vied with each other to fill the Whirlpool with more and yet more blood. The armies turned each other, the Whirlpool all the time filling, filling with blood.

Some of the fiercest fighting I ever encountered was against veteran Roman Legionaries stood on a hill, overlooking Whirlpool, and steadfastly remaining till the very end.

Finally, I was left in disbelief, as the fighting ended, and we were left to wash our horny feet on the banks of Whirlpool.

You couldn't hope to meet a more pleasant, informed and helpful player than MikeMarchant. Thank you very much for the game!

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[MikeMarchant]

The Battle of Whirlpool Heights

Lining up in their traditional chequerboard pattern, the Romans faced large numbers of zealots and raw pike opposite them but offset toward the Roman right flank. As the legionaries began their march forward, the Jewish army quickly darted off even further wide of the Roman right flank. A brilliant strategy by the Jewish commander to occupy a high ridge behind a whirlpool that threatened to swallow one army or the other.

The Legatus gave the order to turn the legion through 90 degrees.

Actually, the Legatus simply had a quiet word with the Camp Prefect, who barked at the Primus Pilus, who then shouted very, very loudly until all the other Centurions cottoned on and echoed the command from cohort down to century with their own bellows.

Two neat rows of highly disciplined legionaries turned to their right and marched swiftly towards the ridge. The Lagatus could see the Jews massing on the ridge, but there wasn’t a lot of space for them and they weren’t professional enough to get themselves organised properly, the way an army like the Romans would. A large number of raw pike were leading the Jewish formation and served to bottle up the zealots behind. Ahead of the raw pike was a mass of light foot, with little space for them to manoeuvre.

Seeing a chance to strike the enemy lights and keep the pike bottled up with their best troops caged behind, the Legatus sent the cavalry reserve forward to engage the lights. At the same time, he detached a small vexillation of legionaries to march to the opposite end of the ridge where the Jewish commander had left a small rear-guard.

The Roman cavalry hammered into the lights, causing absolute chaos, and light troops were routing all over the place. Roman cavalry, despite having been given endless lessons on this, decided to pursue the routing lights through the packed Jewish army where they were guaranteed to be surrounded and slaughtered. They were lucky to be killed by the enemy, because they would not have had such an easy time of it had they returned to camp.

Pursuing routing enemy troops across an open field is one thing, but a desire to do so through a packed army to certain death is the sort of thing that should be queried on the application form for any prospective equites. Anyone ticking that box should instead be stripped naked, painted blue and sold to the Brits as surplus to requirements.

The legionaries arrived shortly after the cavalry and began a life and death struggle fighting their way uphill against the raw pike. Given the Jews were unable to bring many units to bear on such a narrow frontage it ought to have been a routine task, but no-one had told the raw pike that they were raw, clearly they had delusions of marching with Alexander’s army. Legionaries were soon turning and running, giving the Jews the space to loose their zealots on the remaining legionaries in the second rank.

The Roman position quickly disintegrated as the zealots and raw pike flanked the Romans on both sides. Never a pretty sight. One brave cohort, fragmented, but trying to hold the heights opposite managed to rally to good order and held back the tide like half of Moses with half of the Red Sea, but he was only one and they were many. These brave legionaries might all have received great honour for their courage that day, but for the fact Plutarch was on holiday and wasn’t there to record it.

At the other end of the ridge the Romans were having no such problems, cutting through the weak rear-guard, until (what’s the collective noun for a group zealots?) a dreary of zealots refused to let the legionaries past. Turn after turn they were hammered and refused to budge, turn after turn after turn, until finally they were reduced to a fragmented status. And yet still... fragmented and assailed on three sides, they continued to resist, turn after turn after turn until finally they auto-routed.

By the time the route was thrown open it was too late. The roman right had all but disintegrated and though the Roman left started to tear through the remainder of the rear-guard, they were having to fight a rear-guard action of their own, with their last surviving general holding back the Jewish tide, rather more successfully than Canute.

The battle was one that swirled around this whirlpool flanked by ridges, and in the end it was the sons of Romulus sucked to Hades through it.

This was an immensely enjoyable battle, as was my last with uneducated, and I am profoundly grateful to him for both the fun of the battle and the fun of the conversation as the battle unfolded.


Best Wishes

Mike

[ulysisgrunt]

Division B

Ulysisgrunt (Cypriots) defeated Barrold713(Corinthians) 66 to35

[deve]

deve (Dailami + Khorosanians) issued challenges to

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Ulysisgrunt
desertedfox
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