EB Online Tournement Battle Report Thread

**antisocialmunky** · 07-07-2009, 00:00

CHECKPOINT

Victory Against Saba For Me :)
http://www.mediafire.com/?e0lnznml1zw

I consider the battle against darius_d a draw since he could have ran waway form me forever. GG btw.

(I've played like 4 games owning people as Macedon so that's why I only have 1 Baktria)

In case anyone cares, current factional rankings are:
Pontos: 7 - 2 = 5
Romani: 7 - 5 = 2
Baktria: 1 - 0 = 1
Carthage: 1 - 0 = 1
Hayasdan: 1 - 1 = 0
Vartan 1 - 1 = 0
Makedonia: 0 - 0 = 0
Sweboz: 0 - 0 = 0
Arche Seleukia: 2 - 3 = -1
Getai: 0 - 1 = -1
Saba 0 - 2 = -2
KH: 0 - 5 = -5

The Top 3 players are:
tsidneku 7 - 2 = 5
JinandJuice 2 - 0 = 2
Antisocialmunky AND darius_d 1 - 0 =1

Tsidneku and Pontos are running aware with the game lol.

**JinandJuice** · 07-07-2009, 00:24

I had forgotten to upload this one.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ydit1tzjkzd
I won against Parallel Pain again.

BTW, how do we count the top 3? most wins or most kill/death ratio?

**Parallel Pain** · 07-07-2009, 06:52

Saba got a win!

Replay (hope it works, first time uploading)
http://www.filefront.com/13986451/Tourn-Alsatia.rpy//

Battle: Parallel Pain vs Alsatia

Alsatia forgot to bring ranged troops and a total commitment to avoiding a headlong engagement lost him the battle.

I think the fact that Saba got a win deserve to be in bold and underlined lol

**_Agrippa_** · 07-07-2009, 20:54

battle #1 : Agrippa vs ParallelPain

victory of Agrippa

replay battle : http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d...4e75f6e8ebb871

nice battle ParallelPain

**_Agrippa_** · 07-12-2009, 19:48

battle #2 Agrippa versus Alsatia

replay download :http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d...4e75f6e8ebb871 Victory of Agrippa

nice battle Alsatia

battle #1 : Agrippa vs ParallelPain

victory of Agrippa

replay battle : http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d...4e75f6e8ebb871

nice battle ParallelPain

my points are not correct 4/4 , correct : 5/4

thanks

**darius_d** · 07-12-2009, 22:19

My last battle by Qarthadastim before holidays break, and 2nd one with Aulus Caecina Severus. This time he took Imperial Romani.
Undisputable win for ACS. My cavalry survived until the end (and he had no elites this time) but he was just more swift in charging infantry.
Again - gg, ACS.

http://www.mediafire.com/?w1yyz32dnhx

Yes, good idea to take some break.

See you later guys.

**antisocialmunky** · 07-12-2009, 22:38

Wha? ACS charge? Lol :).

**Parallel Pain** · 07-13-2009, 00:45

Originally Posted by _Agrippa_

battle #1 : Agrippa vs ParallelPain

victory of Agrippa

replay battle : http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d...4e75f6e8ebb871

nice battle ParallelPain

I only played you once for tournament, Agrippa, which you already posted. I checked the one above and it's the same as the one before. When ASM posted, the score as far as I could tell was indeed 4/4: Wins are me, Maris, Alsatia x2. Loss are darius_d, tsidneku, Fluvius Camillus, Flavius_Belisarius

Right now it's 5/4

**antisocialmunky** · 07-13-2009, 02:48

So wait, am I mistaken or right?

**darius_d** · 07-07-2009, 21:15

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

I consider the battle against darius_d a draw since he could have ran waway form me forever. GG btw.

Hello everybody.

Thanks ASM, you are a kind guy, but indeed that was a legit win for Baktria:
Baktria 1:0 Qarthadastim.

This was a 2nd full battle for Qarthadastim and so the first defeat for my heros.
Mighty baktrian hetairoi once more decided it all in the end.

What was unusual it was the lenght of the battle - it lasted really long. So how did that happen?

Baktria appeared with standard (not steppe) formation: line of levy phalanx was supported by 3 decent infantry and 2 elite brutal indian guild warriors, plus 4 scythian archers and finally by 5 cavalry units, including 2 units of famous baktrian hetairoi.

Qartadastim army was more or less prepared for that, sending in first line decent libyan heavy spearmen to keep the phalanx busy and the best iberian troops on wings to kill off baktrian supporting infantry and hopefully strong enough to repel expected cavalry charges. Additionally, punic and iberian cavalry was sent for their support. Finally some archers to counter opponent's archers. However not everything went according to the plan.

After some archers' volleys the real battle started: baktrian phalanx attacked my first line of heavy spearmen, so I concentrated my remaining infantry on my left wing (right baktrian wing) where hand combat started. Soon some phalanx units also went to hand-to-hand combat with my spearmen.

Both cavalries had some troubles to do clean and devastating charges, but eventually, after this violent beginning, when some dust dispersed, Qartadastim was left with a few infantry units and its cavalry lost, and Baktria with some reduced but still powerful cavalry squad and few phalanx units.

From this moment on tactical manouver games started - Cartaginians tried to tire off baktian infantry by marching (baktrians were exhausted and was vulnerable to get broken when assaulted) and attack the cavalry when they are alone.
Baktrians tried to engage in fight only with cavalry and infantry sent together - the situation which my infantry was trying to avoid. When my infantry was attacking the cavalry alone, they were escaping the engagement.
So thats' why my troops could walk around the map for a long time just followed by Baktrians and clashes were minor. Undoubtly, fun-killing situation but we both were too proud to admit unacceptable result of battle.

This is the replay but be warned that you do better to watch let's say "Gladiator" movie in that time - far more interesting.
http://www.mediafire.com/?32jmwymzjmh

**Aulus Caecina Severus** · 07-07-2009, 23:12

battle 2: ACS vs Parallel Pain http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198535387/2touney.rpy

This is my battle against parallel pain, he is very good, but his faction give him no chance.

However GOOD GAME

**JinandJuice** · 07-08-2009, 02:58

Won a battle against tsidneku.
http://www.mediafire.com/?oolujkyryro
EDIT: I just watched the replay, and I honestly have to say that that was one of the most spectacular battles I've played. tsidneku's maneuver abilities with his cavalry are truly impressive. We both concentrated on small portions of the battle and left out a lot of things we could have otherwise exploited with our infantry. We also had archers shooting our own cavalry as well as the enemy's during the cavalry face-off on tsidneku's right flank. I have to say that I honestly had no idea how I won the cavalry charge.

Also had the 3rd win against Parallel Pain the other day, before he decided that he was getting his bowels ripped apart

.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ngezhond0ul

**antisocialmunky** · 07-08-2009, 04:19

Not to rain on your parade but Ligurian untis are classified as Pre-Marian Italian units. I'm not going to do anything since they are fairly similar to the Auxillary Cavalry that they get later. Even if tsidneku complained I don't think it would have mattered in the end since he barrelled into those archers, got swamped etc.