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Last night was one of our Tuesday evening sessions. We continued the Battle of Trebia using Age of Hannibal rules and unit cards.
I am the Carthaginians, Gier Pyscher is the Romans.
The last session ended with the Romans being hard pressed on both flanks by Carthaginian mounted troops. However; the Carthaginian center is buckling under superior Roman heavy infantry.
Carthage continued to press the Ronans, seeking to exploit exposed and wavering troops. The Romans opted to consolidate in response. The battle then turned into a bloody scrum!
Initially the gods of the dice favored the Carthaginians. The Romans began to lose commands on the Command Clock. Despite the initial success, Gier kept his cool and made smart and determined counters. A few turns saw both sides being warn down and the Command Clocks of both sides fell to fewer and fewer commands for each side.
The Romans were the first to come to the brink of collapse, the Clock falling to four and disordered a quarter of his force. However; the Romans kept good order and rallied most of the wavering troops.
The grind continued, eventually the Carthaginian Clock fell to four, but we're unable to recover as well. The Romans smashed into Carthaginian center. There, the fighting in the even forced Hannibal to attach himself to a wavering infantry unit, but that unit was defeated and the general barely managed to escape to another infantry unit.
In the subsequent turns the Carthaginians were unable to effectively rally units.
The Romans were then able to secure its flagging left flank and managed to smash into the Carthaginian infantry in the center, again! This brought the Carthage Command Clock to two. Hannibal ceded the battlefield to Sempronius.
We had great fun! We are really enjoying Age of Hannibal.
Jeffrey A Russ has plans of making this the first engagement in a campaign!
 




 

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