| Contiuing with putting figures together, as well as making it possible to produce the spearman from the chariot set as a figure in it's own right. |
| Same sort of thing with the missile troops, as well as enabling me to produce the chariot archer in numbers a lot easier. I also took the opportunity to include the scythes from the Seleucid scythed chariot, SES1. |
| For the Egyptians, basiclly a need for decent production moulds in the first place - probably still need to do another one eventually. |
| The Egyptians are well on the way to destroying the Assyrian left. |
| Between flank attacks and kind dice the Assyrians are starting to crumble. |
| In fact, things are looking bad forAssyria. |
| However, the king is coming... |
| And takes out the opposition. |
| I was seriously considering the game was over until that 6:1 happened... |
| But although the chariots went, the Assyrians were still losing elements. |
| A few good dice rolls and who knows.... |
| But they didn't get them - game over. |
Fun game. Again, dice rolls had a major effect on the result and the game was in doubt for quite a while. On balance, I think the Assyrians were just a couple of units short. Or possibly the Egyptians had a couple too many.
| Overview of the battle. Probably the main point in this picture is the Egyptian chariots and light archers widely swinging out on their right flank. It always surprises me the effect a couple of terrain pieces can have on a battle, especially when it comes to slowing down outflanking movements. |
| The other, less obvious, point in the above picture is that Young speciality of rolling 1s! In this case, 4 out of 5! |
| While archers are proving fragile in this battle, the spears are doing what they do best. Slogging things out. It's very difficult to get a kill in a spear v spear fight, usually just back and forth pushbacks! |
| Right flank out flanking manoeuvre by the Egyptians.. |
| The Egyptians are gradually taking out that Assyrian heavy archer unit, Egyptian chariots are holding things up on the other side of the slugfest. |
| The Assyrian general and his chariot strike force have caught the Egyptian horse archers. |
| While the Egyptian chariots facing Assyrian left flank spears and slingers are finding things difficult. |
| While one Egyptian chariot is still hanging on, the other Egyptian chariots have gone through the oasis and contacted a detached slinger element. Of course, the chariots will be fighting on a -2 because of the oasis! |
| The light horse die. |
| And the onesie curse strikes the centre again! 4 out of 6 - sadly for them the ones include remains of the Assyrian archers and the lone slinger element near the copse. |
| And now the way is clear for the Egyptians on the Assyrian left. |
| While the remaining Assyrian archers have gone. |
| While the Assyrian general and his chariots are slowly getting round the Egyptian left - just a few more elements of archers to go. |
| This is the battlefield when I had to stop for the day. Hopefully, battle will commence tomorrow. The Egyptians seem to be in the better position though the Assyrians are just ahead as far as elements lost go. Archers don't seem to last long. |
Putting down a desert mat with a terrain piece on it takes a lot of time and effort. So much time and effort I thought I'd better get a bit more use out of it. It's been a long time since I've used my Minifigs Egyptians and Minifigs/Lamming Assyrians so I thought - why not?
| So I decided that the Amun Division of my Egyptian army would be one side. |
| This is my current Egyption army. Four 'historical' Divisions plus some extras forming a non-historical Pharaoh's Division. All these are Minifig's 'S' Range - I also have a Garrison army but it's a lot smaller - development of the Garrison army more or less stopped when I bought Harry's collection. There is also a later Minifigs Egyptian and Kushite army. At some time I must sort out some of that lot for a Review! |
| This is the Assyrian force. Infantry and cavalry are all ex-Harry Minifigs 'S' Range. The General's chariot in the middle is a more recent attempt of mine and consists of a mixed Garrison/Minifigs crew, Minifigs chariot body and Garrison wheels. The other chariots are from my late 70s Lamming army with Minifigs chariot bodies. |
| These are pretty much my complete Assyrian forces - mostly Minifigs 'S' Range, back ranks from the rearmost light archers are Garrison and Garrison conversions, chariots scratch built with card bodies. |
| The armies in this battle have been set up and started to move towards each other... |
| The Assyrian right flank. The chariots are splitting up to avoid the rough ground. |
| One of the advantages of solo gaming is when it comes to applying rules. I switch quite happily from treating elements separately or as individual elements. In this case I considered them to be units and the result was devastation! Of the first eight or so dice rolls I think there were about three 1s and 2 2s! |
| Leaving big gaps! |
| A view of the situation at this point. On the Egyptian right, the Egyptian archers are seeing off the left flank Scythian horse archers. |
| The fleeing Scythians have left the Assyrian left flank a bit open. |
| The centre, mainly composed of spear units, is developing into a slugfest. |
| While things are beginning to look very interesting on the Assyrian right. |
About four years ago I posted the slightly unfinished version of this army but didn't officially list it as a Review. As wargames activities seem to be suspended at the moment I thought it might be a good idea to redress that omission.
| The army in full - Royal Division, Division I Amun, Division II Pre, Division III Sutekh and Division IV Ptah. |
| The Royal Division. This started out as just a chariot squadron but expanded slightly as I acquired more figures. |
| Division I Amun. Theoretical 'Standard' organisation of my Egyptian Divisions. 1 heavy infantry regiment, 1 medium/light infantry regiment, 1 heavy archer regiment, 1 light archer regiment, 1 scout cavalry squadron and a chariot squadron. |
| Division II Pre. Heavy infantry regiment slightly depleted (ie, person I bought them off used a 20 rather than 24 figure unit), light archers replaced by a unit of light javelins. |
| Division III Sutekh. Heavy infantry regiment replaced by another light/medium regiment, heavy archers replaced by an LMI unit of light archers, LI archers replaced by a slinger unit. However, does have an 'extra' unit of LMI javelins. For some reason never got round to giving this division a general. |
| Division IV Ptah. The 'Foreign' or 'Nubian' Division. Reduced emphasis on spears, lots of Sudanese archers, one fewer chariot in the chariot squadron. |
As well as the Assyrians at the head of this blog I had the beginnings of a Lamming Egyptian army. Although I have posted about them before it was a few years ago and I didn't do them as a Review.
| Though one reason for this is that it is quite a small army... |
| Have to admit I liked the ground effect on the bases of some of these. |
| This shows the difference between the early Lamming spearman and the later one with separate spears and shields. |
| Size-wise the army looks a lot bigger if I include a unit of the spearmen that I had designed (these are the ones that were supposed to be compatible with Garrison 20mm!) |