In our latest ADLG game my Kushite Egyptians took on Gordon's Medes, a re-run of a game we played quite a while ago which Gordon triumphed in.
This time I went for two mixed commands of mounted and foot with brilliant generals and an unreliable small foot command entirely of bowmen and medium swordsmen giving a substantial army with a 26 break point. Unlike last time I also opted for the new 'armoured' light chariots available in V4 of ADLG rather than the previous (now downgraded in my opinion!) heavy chariots.
Gordon won the initiative and decided to attack in the plains. I got a waterway to narrow the table and put down the maximum terrain I could then deployed the all-infantry command on the left with the two mixed commands in the centre and on the right:
The Medes had deployed with two mixed corps of their own on their right/centre and an entirely cavalry command on their left. They immediately began to advance as did the Kushite centre and right:
One Kushite light horse moves over to slow the advance of the Median right, with luck it will take the Medes a while to get these troops into action:
Feeling that they have an advantage facing the palm tree plantation and on the right the Kushites push forward quickly moving the archers up on the left to defend the flank:
On the far left the Kushite light horse hold up the Median advance again:
On the right the Kushites advance into missile range. The fire proves especially effective with hits sprouting all along the Median line:
On the left the Kushite archers manage to get a few shots off at some distant Median cavalry inflicting more damage. The light horse are still doing their holding job well:
Fighting has broken out in the palm grove with both sides having wins and losses. The Median cavalry wing retires but is followed up by the Kushites:
On the left the delaying Kushite light horse have been dealt with while in the centre the two lines will clash soon. Kushite archery has already inflicted some hits on the Medes:
The Kushites continue to press the Median cavalry wing:
The centres clash! The combats slightly favour the Medes but, unlike the Kushites, some of the Medes have already taken hits weakening their effectiveness:
In the palm grove the fight proves to be brutal with around equal losses on both sides. The Median cavalry have been forced back almost to the table edge:
In the centre the Kushite archers and chariots overcome the odds, holding off the Median cavalry and managing to destroy an already weakened Median spear element:
A closer view of the fight in the centre and palm grove:
On the left there are still a lot of Medes out of the action, a couple of Kushite swordsmen continue to slow them down:
Having taken a lot of shooting hits and lost several elements the Medes are close to breaking, their cavalry are forced to turn to face their pursuers:
A couple more elements destroyed in the centre and the Kushites are victorious!:
Pharaoh watches on as the Medes break and flee:
So revenge is sweet for the Kushites and my ADLG winning streak extends further! I guess some of the lessons Gordon has taught me must finally have sunk in and I think I've improved at both choosing a more competitive army composition and deploying it with some sort of plan.
The Kushites also shot very effectively (perhaps helped by Gordon's fondness for medium cavalry archers and mediocre spearmen), much of Gordon's army didn't really get into the game and when they needed to the Kushites also fought well.
As the Byzantines, Carthaginians and Kushites have all had outings recently that leaves the Late Romans or Huns to see some more action or maybe a new army that I'm working on......
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