Thursday evening, Si and I played a game of To the Strongest, pitting my Late Romans against his Sassanid Persians. My Late Romans have a western flavour, so probably represent one of the western pretenders operating in the east. Roman right flank command, nearest the camera, consisted of a unit of slingers, Hun mounted bowmen, Sarmatian cataphracts and Frankish warbands, supported by cataphracts and clibinarii under the overall commander. The centre comprised five units of legionaries supported by two units of lanciarii and three units of bowmen. The left flank comprised two units of light horse archers and two veteran javelin armed cavalry. With the three camps, my troops came to 202 points. The Sassanids had flanks dominated by heavy cavalry and cataphracts, while the centre comprised units of long bowmen and deep spear armed infantry, with an escorted elephant unit.
My Frankish warbands, Victrix early Saxons, with singers to their front.
The far right flank with Hun light horse archers and Sarmatian cataphracts, backed up with the CinC's cataphracts and clibinarii.
The left flank cavalry and light horse with the edge of the legionary units in the centre.
Sadly, the action was too intense to take more photos once we got going. It was a tight game, but lots of fun. On the right flank, the Sarmatians and one of the Frank warbands broke, but the bosses cataphracts and clibinarii did for all bar one unit of Sassanid cataphracts, so the Romans were able to change facing and were about to try and roll up the Sassanid centre, while the Huns were about to ransack the nearby Sassanid camp. The surviving Frankish warband and one of the legionary units were in a tussle with the Sassanid's elephant unit. In the centre, the Romans lost some archers and lanciarii, but had disrupted lots of the Sassanid spears. The left flank was still up for grabs, with the Romans losing a light horse unit and the Sassanids a unit of cavalry, but we felt this flank could go either way. The veteran Roman cavalry were batting way above their weight, thanks to the superior save factor.
Sadly, too many troops to play out on a club night, but it gave a good game and we felt the table looked really good.
So, still lots of Late Romans to work on, probably going to use them as sub-Roman Brits, plus lots of Vikings who will finish up with the early Saxons and Dark Age warriors in a generic army for the period and be pressed into service as early Saxons through to Viking or later Saxon/Anglo-Dane. Then I'm also building up a Norman/early Crusaders force, ready to appear on the painting table later in the year.
As ever, thanks for looking.
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