AAR: Sea Peoples First Outing (ADLG)

The best thing about not working is that I am available for afternoon gaming. I had my first game for several months on Monday afternoon, which was the debut for the Sea Peoples army I painted up earlier this year. They were facing Libyan Egyptians.

Initial deployments. With hindsight (and ain't that a wonderful thing?) my big mistake was not spreading out across more of the table - that hit me hard later on. I should have stuck the medium foot from the central command as a reserve behind the heavy foot (and able to move to cover their left flank) and put most of the medium foot from my right flank command into the front line rather than having them in reserve.

The terrain deployment wasn't the best. The rolls for position meant that two items had to be discarded as they wouldn't fit into the sector they should have been in. that left a road, a field (the brown patch) and a village (the grey patch).

I'd lost the initiative, and my opponent moved forward quickly to close me down.

I forgot to take pics for a turn or two. I'd lost two light foot in the meantime. Here you can see that I've charged in, with mixed results.

My chariot command was suffering the effects of shooting from the Egyptian chariots and bowmen.

My heavy foot charged forward to fight some crap medium cavalry which was blocking them from attacking the enemy heavy foot.

An almost equal fight - all impetuous medium swordsmen, but the enemy were "elite".

Some dreadful dice rolls from my medium foot charging light chariots in the open saw the predictable damage marker appear.

And more damage markers sprout among my troops. the enemy heavy foot have now charged into mine, who didn't really seem to notice. Unlike my medium foot who are mostly dying. On my right flank I detached the javelinmen with the intention of getting them round to make a flank or rear attack on the Egyptian chariots.

More of my troops are disappearing or taking damage.

Not looking good for my chariots.

Definitely not looking good for this chariot.

My heavy foot on the other hand are doing a splendid job. 

Chariot and general killed.

And you'll be chocked that the chariot which had been hit in the flank and the rear also died.

The heavy boys are doing what they're best at.

Unfortunately by then enough of my units had either been killed or damaged that I reached army break point.

I had terrible dice throughout most of the game. It didn't seem to matter what the dice were for -command pips, shooting, melee or rallying - they were almost all bleedin' awful. Unlike my opponent's dice which were consistently rolling 5s and 6s.

It was a good game though and it was great to get back to gaming after such a long break.