An Update from AWC
A busy day at the Auckland Wargames club saw a near full house of 7 games in action, including two of DBMM.
Mike Hodgson's Later Macedonians took on Gordon Brennan's Polybian Romans. A tight game saw the Macedonians edging the result as time ran out. Of particular interest was the scale comparison between Mike's Newline Designs 20mm Macedonians and Gordon's antique 25mm Minifigs Romans. Not much size difference at all!
The other game saw Nick Buckby and myself in one of the truly classic matchups of Ancient Wargaming, Seleucids against Late Romans - surely two of the most widely modeled armies in the period!
A tough game (as always against Nick) saw the undermanned Seleucid left wing driven back and broken by the Roman right, with some light horse even going on to sample the delights of the Seleucid camp.
However, the massed phalanx steamrolled the double line of legionaries in the Roman centre while the Roman left was steadily ground down by the superior numbers of Seleucid mounted for a 19-6 victory for Antigonos the Great (but not Brilliant!).
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| MIke's Macedonian phalanx presses forward against Gordon's Polybian Romans |
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20mm Newline Macedonians (left) facing 25mm Minifigs Romans (right). Size wise, there's surprisingly little in it.
Perhaps this opens up a solution to continuing scale creep and thus challenge of fitting the figures onto the bases. |
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| The fearsome Seleucid phalanx is deployed, with their strong mounted right wing in the distance. |
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| The Roman legionaries advance boldly to engage the phalanx while their left engages in more measured maneuvers in the face of the superior Seleucid cavalry. |
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| Legion and Phalanx engage while the Roman right is already driving back the Seleucid left. |
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| The Roman left starts to break up in the face of the superior Seleucid cavalry |
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| However, on the other flank, the Seleucid left is in dire straights and will soon break. |
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But the Invincible Beast that is the Seleucid Phalanx is slowly but steadily rolling over the thinning line of Roman legionaries.
Two old dogs of NZ wargaming that have been looking at each other across the table since the 1980s. Love it! |
Very interesting size comparison
Glad to see someone else using New Line
Scale creep! Out of period, but a while ago I saw a Napoleonic game with one side using Airfix 20mm on one side and modern 15mm on the other. Crazily similar in size!
