Warmaster Ancients: Assyrians vs. Egyptians
Warhammer Ancients: Romans vs. Gauls

We definitely had an Ancients theme going this last Friday night as you can see by the photos on the right. Gary and I did a Warmaster Ancients game while the rest of the group did a big WAB game of Romans vs. Gauls. I'll report on the WMA game as I was involved in that one and only had a few chances to break away to watch the other game.

Gary took the Assyrians as he likes to use the 4-horse chariots which we refer to as "Biblical Panzers". Both sides did a pretty good job of getting their main battle lines to advance the first few turns, but the Egyptian left flank commander and the Assyrian right flank commander were next to worthless, with each one issuing about two orders total in the first three turns! By the start of turn three the skirmishers and archers were in range so a storm of arrows flew across the battlefield.

The Egyptians made the first attack, led by their chariots. After some initial success, they were pushed back with one unit destroyed.The Assyrian heavy chariots then moved up to attack the Egyptian left. The brigade of Philsitines met the first chariot assault and forced a stalemate, then in their turn finished off the chariots! The other Assyrian heavy chariot unit was defeated by two units of Egyptian chariots and it looked like the game was getting away from the Assyrians.

The Assyrian heavy infantry then moved up with the King's Guard and plowed into the Egyptian center. Despite horrific casualties on both sides the Assyrians pressed on. During the final turn of the game, with the Assyrians having only a handful of fresh units they launched one more determined attack. On the last die roll of the last combat on the last turn the Assyrians destroyed an Egyptian unit that forced the Egyptians to withdraw. A closely fought game that went down to the final die roll!