Kushans and DBMM 200, posted by Craig Mabon, 18 January 2019

Since Vince asked so nicely in an earlier post, and it's a quiet Friday afternoon here's some photos from our local DBMM 200 tournament back on 2 Jan and my recent engagement with Paul Graham. First time I'd fought Paul at Ancients despite knowing him for over 40 years.

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Russell Briant We need you to have more quiet Friday afternoons. Clearly.

Thanks for helping mine.

Vincent Cholewa Great work, Craig. Parthians with elephants? 🐘

Craig Mabon The Great Kushan Empire - yes Parthians with elephants (and pike). Mind you, Paul Graham calls them 'fake Parthians'.

[Apologies for the order of the pictures. I find control of picture placement difficult in blogger.] 

Kushan Cataphracts

Elephants, mountain indian troops and Bactrian Greeks

Close up of horse archers

Close up of elephants - the one in the middle is a general.

Kushan horse archers

Kushan centre advances against Ptolemaics. Mountain Indian cavalry in the foreground. Behind the pikemen can be seen the Kushan right flank moving across to support the failing left flank.

Kushans (Craig) vs Huns (Neil) - the elephants cross the scrub only to find the Hun has buggered off.

Kushans (Craig) vs Middle Imperial Romans (Jim Hoskin) - the Roman deployment

Against Paul Graham's Pyrrhic the flank march finally arrives

Assyrians Craig Mabon vs Pyrrhics Paul Graham - the Assyrian centre where the psiloi are trying their best against the phalanx

Ptolemaic cavalry just before performing a 180 degree turn and heading off to ride down legionaries.

Before our DBMM 200 Competition, Kushan Cataphracts ready for action.