Persians 15mm

[Phil Portway]

My 15mm newly bases for S&S Achaemenid Persians finally march to war, against Rome? They will be Sassanids on Monday. On the table is approx 700pts, But will be using 550. Will also be using an Elephant or two. Report to follow.

[WuZhuiQiu]

Nice work! Are they intended for L'art de la guerre?

[Richard in Sachsen]

I love large massed armies on the table-top. Nice work on those shields, too. The army looks great.

[Phil Portway]

Nice work! Are they intended for L'art de la guerre?

Sword & spear, Same basing as Guerre and DBM

[Phil Portway]

Harry and I broke out another couple of ancient armies for a bit of Sword & Spear. My Achaemid Persian stepped in as Sassanids.
Persian 560 points and Roman 548 Points.

The set up. Did not use terrain this time (just get stuck in and learn the rules), which suited the Persians.

We both used camps for the first time and these are handy to have for command and an extra dice in the bag! Romans had 18 dice and Persians 20 dice.

Romans on the right of Picture


Persians:




Roman




Turn 1: bits of maneuvering from both sides, Romans fire their Ballistas at long range against my Uber light Horse Romans firing continually every turn and did not cause one casualty against this unit all night.




Enveloping the Roman Cavalry on Persian left flank


Turn 2: Persians lose some light foot and a unit of Cataphracts on the left, to very bad combat dice! And I charge so had impact!


The Persian right had successful combat and took out four Roman units
End of turn 2:


Roman Casualties
 
Persian Casualties



Turn 3:


Persian were starting to roll bad combats, even lost one unit of Elephants to archers IN COMBAT!


Roman Casualties were building too!



Turn 4:Disaster after disaster for the Persians in combat


No Roman casualties this turn, only more Elephants!


Turn 5 saw more combats along the line and both sides reaching the first morale stage (1/3 losses), The Roman Infantry were plodding across the battlefield to the Persian infantry but we ran out of time for a sixth turn, so called it a draw with a pyrrhic victory to the Romans

Roman Casualties


Persian Casualties

[FierceKitty]

That elephant lancer looks very Macedonian.

[Phil Portway]

That elephant lancer looks very Macedonian.

As I said at the beginning of my post these are Achaemenid posing as Sassinids, so needed to proxy some bits and bobs