On Saturday March 28th we re-fought the Battle of Hydaspes. Charles Lee was Alexander, Ken Mackie was Porus, and Dan (Regicide) Rygasewicz was his subordinate for the first two battles.
Sedov Svjatoslav replaced Dan for the third game and then took over for Ken when he had to return home.
Rules used were Scutarii from Hoplite Research
http://www.lulu.com/shop/william-butler/broadswordscutarii/paperback/product-21971341.htmlAvailable in the UK from Caliver books
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The Indian army was given a choice of three deployment options:
Arrian's 200 elephants on a frontage of 100 feet per elephant with the infantry five ranks deep.
120 elephants with the infantry ten ranks deep, but with a reduced morale rating of 8 instead of 9.
A 20 rank deep infantry formation with a morale of 9, but only 85 elephants.
The Macedonians were allowed free deployment after the Indian army was deployed. There was also the option of arming the Hypaspists with either spears or pike. Pike was chosen for all three games.
Ken chose to use the ten rank deep formation for the first two battles and the 20 deep formation for the third. The first two games ended during the third turn when Dan slew Alexander. The third game was a Macedonian victory as about half the Indian army fled from the field by the seventh turn.
Alexander did not lead the right wing Macedonian cavalry for the third battle, but instead stayed near the center of the army. The first two battles saw the Macedonians attack the Indian left flank. For the third battle Charles deployed the phalanx and most of his army on the left and some cavalry on the right. A reverse of the historical battle. Charles deployed the Macedonian heavy infantry in 8 ranks instead of 16.
We started at noon and finished at 7 PM.
Army values
| MACEDONIAN | |||||||||
| UNIT |
ATTACK
|
DEFENSE
|
MISSILE
|
MOVE
|
MORALE
|
POINTS
|
UNITS
|
TOTAL
|
|
ALEXANDER
|
ADD 2
|
X
|
X
|
14
|
+/-2,1, OR 0
|
free
|
1
|
0
| |
GENERALS
|
ADD 1
|
X
|
X
|
14
|
+/- 1 OR 0
|
free
|
3
|
0
| |
COMPANIONS
|
5
|
5
|
X
|
12
|
11
|
10
|
7
|
70
| |
HYPASPISTS 1
|
5
|
6
|
X
|
6
|
11
|
10
|
x
|
0
| |
HYPASPISTS 2
|
4
|
6
|
X
|
6
|
11
|
10
|
6
|
60
| |
PHALANX
|
3
|
6
|
X
|
6
|
11
|
9
|
8
|
72
| |
AGRIANIANS
|
3
|
5
|
2"
|
6 OR 8
|
11
|
8
|
2
|
16
| |
ARCHERS
|
2
|
4
|
6"
|
6 OR 8
|
11
|
8
|
4
|
32
| |
HORSE ARCHERS
|
2
|
4
|
4"
|
12 OR 14
|
11
|
9
|
2
|
18
| |
LIGHT HORSE
|
3
|
4
|
2"
|
12 OR 14
|
11
|
8
|
2
|
18
|
|
286
| |||||||||
| INDIAN | |||||||||
| UNIT |
ATTACK
|
DEFENSE
|
MISSILE
|
MOVE
|
MORALE
|
POINTS
|
UNITS
|
TOTAL 1.2
|
TOTAL 3
|
ELEPHANT
|
4
|
6
|
4"
|
8
|
10
|
13
|
30 or 21
|
390
|
273
|
HORSE
|
3
|
5
|
X
|
12
|
10
|
8
|
8
|
64
|
64
|
CHARIOT
|
4
|
5
|
4"
|
10
|
10
|
8
|
6
|
48
|
48
|
INFANTRY 3
|
2
|
4
|
6"
|
6
|
9
|
5
|
46
|
0
|
230
|
INFANTRY 1,2
|
1
|
4
|
6"
|
6
|
8
|
3
|
45
|
135
|
0
|
GENERALS
|
ADD 1
|
X
|
X
|
14
|
+/- 1 OR 0
|
free
|
4
|
0
|
0
|
637
|
615
|
The Indian army had 96 cavalry figures, 6 chariots 50+ elephants, and 1104 infantry figures. The Indian army was mostly Heroics and Ros and Baccus with some Irregular elephants.
The Macedonian army had 560 phalangites and hypaspists, 96 light infantry archers and javelin men, 32 light cavalry, and 84 companions. Companions were Baccus, light cavalry a mix of Rapier and H &R, light infantry H&R, phalangites and hypaspists Rapier.
2 comments:
A great looking game!
Thanks, Simon
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