that's
finding half an elephant”
Me mukkah Tony did, of his on volition, purchached a positive pile of proud pachyderms on e-bay. We have settled into series of what we call “End Games”, which is to say tactical problems such as a chess player might enjoy.
The following games had no points, extras. They are simple “what if's” or “have we got that right?”.
Game 1 Elephant vs
Phalanx. A fairly pedestrian push n shove game. Nothing will really
happen until someone rolls a wobbly. I'd park up in front of the
pointy's and blow raspberries until something happens. This is when
you need archers to even the odds.
Game 2 Elephants vs Javelin skirmishers.
This was fun! Don't try it until your familiar with rules.
To start, there's where
the missiles land. You need a D6 for each shooter then sort them out
in respect of recipient. A quick tot up of factors then roll some
dice – once your used to the mechanics it becomes obvious which is
useless so you can speed through the process.
A lucky shot skewered
the Mahout, leaving the elephant to rampage. (1-5 hit the elephant)
A quick pass through the
skirmishers killed 4, 1 to the pikemen.
Game 3 we racked up the
odds. A unit of pike supported by close order archers vs elephant
and 4 skirmishers.
“The
engines will never stand it!”
Smack into the archers, who failed
to shoot or evade. Two get trampled, one gets piked. Javelin
support, hassled and locked the pike, even pushed 2 back!
Activation,
1! So they skip off. Elephant gets 2 so does a hand brake turn and
piles into the rear of the phalanx, 3 gone. Javelins skip to the side to make sure
they're not in the way.
(if I ever roll a 6, I'll post it here)
What to do but
go straight ahead and hope? Now elephants go faster than close order
infantry, and they don't like it up'em!
So our recommendation
for a fun game is infantry vs skirmishers, full of action, movement
and drama.
An elephant that has “passed through” a pike block
(it's all that forin food) meeting the reception committee. Can you
imagine what it's like? Hearing all that, waiting to be stomped from
behind. Don't panic!
Yes, I know they are the wrong period troops, on too wide bases and not even fully painted.
But I'd rather be happy and wrong. Good days wargaming in 'er in doors shop. Thanks Tone!
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