1st All Britannia Challenge Cup

[Franconicus]

Orcorama,

do not hurry. I am not sure if I can stand that fight or have to start again.

You may be right about Tingi. Still wondering how they can afford that big army.

Last night I sallied at Orca and attacked the Gaulish army that had 3 times my size. They had warbands, javelins and barb cav + some swords and druids. I had 2 warbands, 0.5 worriors, 1 druid, one slinger and three FMs. I sent 2 of my my FMs through the sidegate and attacked the enemies flank. My infantry engaged them, too. My chariots killed their cav and broke through their infantry lines. One warband from the centre turned to the flank to face my two FMs. That was the chance to attack their centre. My third FM hit their javs and cut their line in two. That was the decision. In total I killed 1,700 enemies, seven times more than I lost. However, two FMs died in this battle.
After this heroic victory my third FM is now an expert.
I have to retrain my army as fast as possible. Spain is collecting at Carthage Nova. And my garrison there is far to weak to stand.
My leader is moving from west to east. He is droving a Gaulish army.

[orcorama]

ok
i finished thorugh to 260 winter BC
i kept my battle stats and my kill average is about 2.0
i took tara in a heroic destruction of the rebels there. they left the city and i destroyed them in the field also destroying the reinforcement from the city so i could just walk in

i attacked asturica and catured it. WOW that was the closest battle i have ever fought. i had two rams.
i atacked the wall in two spots i usually attack the wall when i can because my men seem to go through the wall better than the gate
they had two units of scutarii i drove their forces away from the wall with my light chariots but as soon as i was trough they charged me
my warbands of course lost but gave fought just long enough for me to pepper the enemy with arrowsi barely beat them back
they took heavy losses and routed back to the town square. i lost a warband
in the process. i hate getting chariots through walls! GRR! they are so dumb oh well i eventually got them through and won but i took 500 casualties only killing about 700+

I then attacked scallibus and took it easily since the comuter seems to only leave their faction leader there.
the julii got osca.
i captured carthago nova taking tremendous losses but i eliminated spain

not being able to take gaulish cities is a pain especially since on very hard the gauls havnt attaked the julii and they are turning oyut boatloads of warbands. i can beat them with chariots but i dont have enough chariots to deafeat them all. i am going to try and clear out some of gaulsish armies
then i will build up a fleet and jump to palma and then sardinia
hopefully the julii are too busy fighting in spain they havent taken sardinia yet but i dought it
i will then be at war with gaul, carthage, all the romans whcih will be a major pain. then i will attack greece in rhodes and then egypt

unless i have like 10:1 odds i am going to lose all sea battles so i have to try and jump from one iskand to teh next

[Franconicus]

WELCOME;ORCORAMA,

great news.

I just started a new approach. This time I send all troops in one boat to Spain to have them all together. I ignored Ireland in the beginning. I tried to get a better cashflow by reducing my peasants in Britannia and having less boats and mercs.

I land in Spain and devide my army in two groups. First takes Asturica without problems. Second one heads south, beats a Spanish army and attacks Scallabis. Heavy fighting here. The defenders are all cav. The king and his brother, some round shields and wardogs. I have 3 warbans, 1 slinger, 2 light car. and two FMs. I brake the wall and gate. At the gate the dogs attack my band and causes some trouble. Then the two FMs attack, at each hole one. My warbands get in deep trouble and my FMs engage. My light cars and slingers fight the dogs. Enemy seems to be better at both holes. So I take all my charriots and focus on the King. The rest of my warband and my slingers try to stop the other as long as possible. It works. Their king dies, the enemy routes. Last fight with round shield at the centre - Scallabis is mine. In the same year I take Tara and loose Samarobriva.

Now I am marching with my two divisions through Gaulish Spain. I will kill as many Gauls as I can. Then I will eliminate the Spanish. It is 264 right now.

[Franconicus]

Hey IliaDN,

did you finally end your weekend session?

[Franconicus]

I am going to play over the weekend. I will try to get the Gaulish town in Spain without attacking or besieging it I am wondering if this works!

[IliaDN]

Hey IliaDN,

did you finally end your weekend session?

Sorry for letting you down , but I won't be able to play this campaign , partially because of the exam session.

[Franconicus]

Sorry for letting you down , but I won't be able to play this campaign , partially because of the exam session.

You are doing your exams and Pez is on holidays.
When will you guys finally start to work?

[Viking]

To make things worse am I burnt out on RTW, so I`m afraid I won`t be playing barbs for awhile(need elephants to spice things up).