Assyrians vs Egyptians.

From 740 to 627 Bc, Assyrian empire under kings as Tiglath Pilesser, Senaquerib, Salmanssar, or Asurbanipal rules Mesopotamia, and conquered Canaan, and Egypt.

They fought only one big battle, in egyptian border in Sinai.

The egyptian army were destroy.

Clash of chariots

The battle we played, is a fictional assyrian attack in canaan border.

We played, as usual, with WAB 2.0 rules, and with 20mm-1/72 models.

We used zvezda, caesar, atlantic, and new line designs models for this battle.

Clash of Chariots and cavalry

Egyptian line

The egyptian army were large and quickly, but poor armoured, the assyrians, were less people than the egyptians, but stronger and very well armoured.

This battle, was a very slow battle, where the egyptians attacks with all their chariotry the assyrian left wing, trying to involve, and fleeing the left wing from the assyrian cavalry in the right wing.

The Assyrian deploy were classical, with an strong battle line, to try to cut in the middle the egyptian army.

After four hours fighting, we decided, no one of them can break the other.

Usualy, the assyrian army is superior to egyptian army, but, the god of dices, was angry with assyrians, and the rest is history...

Miniatures from the collection of Jaime de Miguel.

For king & country.

Is not usually, for us, play WWI cavalry battles, and of course, not in the western front.

Our last game, was a battle in Belgium, where the germans, must defend a town, and the british, covered by an snow storm must flank the town with cavalry, and attack the germans to the rear.

This was the plan.

The german forces were five platoons with two heavy MGs, and they must defend the town. The british were two cavalry squads, two armoured cars, and a 18 pdr gun.

The cars covered by the snow, and covering the gun marching by the road, and the cavalry squads, each one to the left and to the right, to flank the germans.

The cars were too slow, and the cavalry passed the cars in second turn.

The right squad were stopped by the german MGs fire, but the left squad charged to a german platoon. The platoon were destroy, but the cavalry must retreat.

The rest of the battle were the british cavalry trying to move, the armoured cars firing but do it nothing, and the gun suffered a lot of german fire, and after one turn they retreat after fire one tiem.

The battlefield.

British advance.

German forces defending the town.

German view.

Last british charge.

I think is a very funny scenary, but small, if you want a flank move by the cavalry, also, in our game, the germans were lucky, because the MGs places were right to stop the right cavalry squads. In twelve turns, I think, right squads fired, I don´t know, but, may be one or two times!!!!

Miniatures from the collections of Benito Vera and Dario Garcia.

Roma Vs Carthago.

We were playing last morning an small battle between Romans and Carthginians.

As is usual, we played with WAB 2.0 rules and the book Hannibal and the punic wars.

The two small armies were formed by four groups of skirmishers, two cavalry units, and a core of republican legion for the romans, and african infantry for the carthaginians, supported for a big gaul warband and an elephant. After the first movements turns, the carthaginians flanked the romans with cavalry, gauls, and skirmishers. One roman cavalry unit was routed, and the other charged by the elephant. The hastati turn to face the cavlary units behind them, and the skirmishers were running out the battlefield. Carthaginian maniouvres were perfect, and the trap closed over the romans.

But gods of war were in Rome this morning. The elephant was wounded by the roman cavalry, and disbanded, attacking all troops in the battlefield. Carthaginians skirmisers ran out the elephant, also the cavlary, and finally, the gauls were far from african infantry to help them, and finally, the africans micght surrender to the Roman legions.

Roman tarantine cavalry

Carthaginian gaul cavalry.

Carthaginian army deploy.

After the first movements turns, the carthaginians flanked the romans with cavalry, gauls, and skirmishers. One roman cavalry unit was routed, and the other charged by the elephant. The hastati turn to face the cavlary units behind them, and the skirmishers were running out the battlefield. Carthaginian maniouvres were perfect, and the trap closed over the romans.

But gods of war were in Rome this morning. The elephant was wounded by the roman cavalry, and disbanded, attacking all troops in the battlefield. Carthaginians skirmisers ran out the elephant, also the cavlary, and finally, the gauls were far from african infantry to help them, and finally, the africans micght surrender to the Roman legions.

Six turns and around three hours playing this battle.

The miniatures are from collections of Jaime de Miguel and Luis Illanas.