Re: The Battle of Delta Neilou
Public feedback for Turn 4:
This must be the most boring point during this battle.. if we can call it a battle! Neither side wants to be the first to cross this river and are waiting when their enemy makes some wrong moves.
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Re: The Battle of Delta Neilou
Public feedback for Turn 5:
Mid afternoon ended with no movement from either side. Seeing that Sarpedons heavy infantry doesn't move Alexandros' phalangitai started to taunt and insult their opponents on the other side. Sarpedon answered to that with his archers firing those phalangitai. Though some men died the losses on Alexandros' side were not big enough to make any difference. The situation remained the same. Many soldiers from both sides started to think how long to they have to stay there. This is the strangest battle they have ever "fought"...
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Re: The Battle of Delta Neilou
Public feedback for Turn 6:
Storm clouds were approaching but no one noticed it because all eyes were turned towards the missile duel that took place between near the middle river crossing. Arrhenides had finally called his archers from reserve and sent them to harass Euandros' infantry division near the swamp. While the first archers launched their arrows they suddenly saw that Royal missile divisions approached from south. There was a small confusion what to do next but when Sarpedons archers fired at them they decided to respond and so this missile duel started...
Casualties were high... Sarpedon had lost almost half his missile units while Arrhenides had lost his entire missile division. This meant that in the future battles archers will play a lot smaller role than they did in this one...
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Re: The Battle of Delta Neilou
Public feedback for Turn 7:
Arrhenides, seeing what Sarpedons missile units had done, retreated behind his infantry division. Words he used to describe Sarpedons men were such that some of his own men looked a bit scared.
Royal missile divisions in the same time targeted Arrhenides' heavy infantry division. A small number of Thureophoroi fell by the arrows, clear sign that missile units are not the main players in this battle anymore.
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Re: The Battle of Delta Neilou
Public feedback for Turn 8:
Darkness fell and covered the battlefield. Four armies had been "fighting" for almost 18 hours and it was clear that people were tires. They wanted to finish it either charging their enemies or retreating from the battlefield.
Even Caucasians, Sarpedons loyal archers, missed in the dark. Arrhenides' heavy infantry had moved a bit to north so that arrows hit only couple men who were too tired to keep up with the rest of the units.
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