We fought this game yesterday (June 24) in Lodi.

Lorenzo and me (yes we both are Lorenzos ) with Classical Indians vs Marco and Davide with Parthians.

We set the game at 500 pts.

Here the deployment. As you can see the terrain was very flat with the exception of a gentle hill we use to hide our poor Cavalry



The Parthians were made with CP and CL with the centre made with Daylami and skirmishers both upgraded.
We also decided to keep one on our General "poor" to save 10 pts to use as reroll. Well we forgot to use them and the General rolled a double 1 becoming incompetent towards thge end of the game

Our plan was top refuse the centre and the left and push foward our right wing confident on our 3 Units of Heavy Chariots.

The game lasted around 10 turns. We finished as it was too late.

See the final stage of the battle




well on our left the Light Cavalry was repulsed by our Elephants. They evaded when soot at. But their CP broke our archers and in the last tun reached one of the CM behind the hil and destroyed it
Also this general become incompetent loosing one important turn.

In the centre it was stationary. The melee started lately. On the right we broke their line with our chariots and at the last turn we suceed to rout their command.
We lost 1 Chariot, 1 CM, 1 S, 1 FP and 3-4 archers but none of our command were put to rout, though we lost more units than our opponents.

Well it was a balanced game. The Elephants and the chariots are the best things in the Indian army. Archers are not very good, above all if they gave to confront with shooting CL. The Parthian army is very flexible and an hard opponent.

Lorenzo will confirm that our cohesion tests were very bad and that they rolled very good tests. But this is another story

Hello Lorenzo,

nice description. And I would add that this battle was really fought at 70% by missile fire. They had skirmishers, dailami and light horse against our bowmen and moving-firing-platforms (i.e. Chariots and Elephants: for those elephants, with vbu 6 you often end up preferring to shoot 6 dices at short range rather than charging, unless you are really near in which case you can do both).

And yes, those vbu 3 archers with long bow B where quite strong against the heavy mounted but really puny against the CL... and it is very easy to screen your heavies with the CL.

It was my first 500 point battle, so the first one really exploiting the multiple command structure (I always played 300 pts).. and I would say I liked it! it really starts to make sense to make larger-scoped battle plans...

Lorenzo: which program did you use to make those nice maps in the report above? can I have it?

Cheers,
Lorenzo

it is a freeware (demo) program for web design (Web Art Designer by IBM). I will make you a copy.