EB Online Tournement Battle Report Thread

[darius_d]

This is truly a grim day for Qarthadastim, as two losses happened today:

First one against Romani (Imperial) by Jinand Juice,
The second against Hellens - mighty Arche Seleukeia led by Fluvius Camillus.

The battle against Romani is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ytzbtz2qnjz

JJ skillfully took full advantage of numerical superiority of his cavalry so his charges proved to be decisive.
My cavalry was out-manouvered too often, besides infantry on my wings it seems was set too wide to deal with cavalry attacks from the back.

The batte against AS is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?m2rtmzw2rwo

This one was quite humiliating defeat.
Qarthadastim - consequently faithful to traditional infantry warfare, avoiding phalanx style - faced this time phalanx-based army. What was impressive, AS fielded just 17 units but full of elites in every line: phalanx, supporting infantry, and cavalry (edit: except archers).

In this battle everything went wrong for Qarthadastim as much as possible. First, its formation totally messed up just before sending to fight, which prompted further problems.
Then, attack of iberian infantry on elitarian troops of right AS wing wasnt done well, some units were standing unused.
On opposite wing uncoordinated properly infantry soon was a prey for hetairoi and cataphracts.
Finally, cavalry was running around the map behind one cataphract unit and couldnt catch it, leaving infantry undefended.
Too many errors in one battle.

Congrats for JJ and Fluvius.