Thursday 7 June 2012

Calamity at Carrhae (twice)

As reported in my previous post, I ran the Carrhae game (with Command & Colours) twice on Monday.  In contrast to the Parthian walkover the previous Wednesday, the Romans had the better of both games, winning 7-2 and 7-3.  Phil Steele led the Romans in both games, aided by Graham Evans in the first.  Graham defected to the Parthians for the second game, joining Chris Ager.
Phil shows off with some classic 'wargames pointing' as Chris (left) and Graham look on despairingly.
Horse archers gallop around the Roman flank - but to no avail.
The Roman left giving serious consideration to becoming involved in the battle.
The first game draws to a close - most of the Parthian light cavalry has run off...

6 comments:

Paul said...

Horses! You need to tool up those Parthian units with HMMWV's Tim.

Lets see how those Romans would like that!

I am now going to prove I am not a robot by typing in "pacitic 62"

Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com said...

Glad to see the rules allowed the game to swing both ways.

Nice Romans!

(phhh like a robot couldn't type " pacitic 62" if it wanted to)

Tim Gow said...

Paul
After their recent drubbings I suspect my Parthians may well be considering such a change...

Tim Gow said...

Ross Mac
It certainly proves that both sides have a chance.
Interestingly, I only have to prove I'm not a robot on other peoples' blogs....

Prufrock said...

i AM a robot and I spit brake fluid on your puny defences.

Ha ha ha!

(Good report, BTW. Nice to see C&C getting some blogtime)

Tim Gow said...

Prufrock
It's as I always suspected! Now be a good mechanoid and deactivate yourself before you cause any more chaos.
Glad you're enjoying the C&C posts - more such games are planned....