Rhesaina - 243 AD

This was a Command & Colours game played at Sheffield a couple of weeks ago.  The recently crowned Sassanid Persian King Shapur I took on the Roman Praetorian Prefect Timesethius..  For the full scenario notes see here.  

This was really the first time that most of my Sassanid Army (see this earlier confession) had taken the field.  Mostly made up of the Triples purchase this also included a few bits from JR's collection.  Real veterans then!  Above can be seen the Sassanid reserve - Shapur is visible just behind the elephant.

The Persian front line - heavy cavalry and even heavier cavalry.

Roman light troops.

The Persian front line was quite impressive.

The Romans get stuck in first - here cavalry on the right engages the Persian light cavalry.  His standard soon gave the Persian general the name 'Bank-of-Scotland'......

Persian heavy cavalry engage in what soon became a swirling mess.

On the Roman left their cavalry was driven off by hordes of Persians.

Meanwhile General Bank-of-Scotland had prevailed over his Roman opposite number.  For the moment.

On the roman right things looked a bit sticky...

...while on the left they seemed to have the upper hand....

...leading to more Persians being thrown in.

With the results so far against them the Persians had a go at the Roman right.

But it soon went horribly wrong!

The end.  General Bank-of-Scotland perishes at the hands of some Roman auxiliaries.