We played our first big game of Warmaster Ancients at the FOTOG 30JUL05 Game Day. We ended up being able to combine 1805 points of Carthaginians and 1790 points of Republican Romans.

On the Carthaginian side we had James (from Albrights) as CinC, with Rodger as his left wing commander, and Jeffry on the right. The Carthaginian Force had huge horde of Gallic Warbands (9 units) as well as the normal African and Spanish units. They did manage to field one unit of elephants.

The Romans were led by Mike, with Don on the left wing and James on the right. Pretty standard Republican Roman Army with some 12 full units of Maniples and 2 Triarii as well as the usual cavalry, ally and skirmish support.

Below - Don, James, and Rodger split up the forces.

The game lasted six turns. The wing commands had much difficulty moving forward, but the centers under the CinC’s closed quickly and pretty much mauled each other. The Carthaginians had the upper hand in the center in the end, and if they could have got their Elephant and Shock Cav in quite possibly would have broken the Roman army, as the Elephants and Shock troopers were staring right down on an already damaged Triarii brigade. But as you can guess they choked and never got in the fight. On the Romans following turn, James finally got his main brigade to roll like a wave into Rodger’s piecemealed units and take the game for Rome.

Below - The centers clash!

A fun fight that took about 4 hours, maybe three and a half if you cut out the rules overview. Not bad for six players all playing for the 1st time!

Special thanks has to go to Kieth and Rob for graciously lending troops to let this battle happened!