09/04/2021
The Graeculi took on the Gauls in a randomly generated Battle of Heroes, Regicide. Six points each.
The Gauls and the Greeks both sacrificed a die each to boost their units numbers, The Gauls with two units of 12 Warriors and the Greeks with a large force of mounted Hearth Gaurd of 8. The Greeks also utilised, 'Ellie" The Elephant and the Gallic Warlord debuted her chariot for the first time. Along with the various levi, the Gauls with Bows and the Greeks, javelins the sides met.
The Chariot harassed the Greek Hearthguard with splendidly lucky dice as did the Gallic mounted HG utilising ‘Before the wave’. A couple of times and thinned down the numbers of the massed Greek horses. Meanwhile on the infantry front, there was a lot of tactical manoeuvring on both sides with neither sides blades drawn in anger.
The first melee was between the remnants of the Greek Cavalry whom were soundly defeated by their Gaul counterparts.
By turn four or five the Gallic chariot got a bit greedy for more stick throwing and ended up stuck in the path of a raging elephant, and with the terms of regicide the game ended with the life of the Gallic Warlord. Auld Abruna was stomped amid the dirt and splinters of the chariot by a furious pachyderm.
Unusually, neither factions warriors saw any action and essentially moved around and watched from a safe distance as the horses and jumbos duked it out.
The Gauls took out a narrow but clear victory in end on survival points and bonus melee victory points.
A good evening for Saga but not for the RSPCA or PETA as it was the animals on the field who did all of the dirty work.