And so our retsina-sozzled war correspondent made it to southern Thessaly in the late 5th century BC to see Chris’ Thessalians take on my Greek Hoplite “City States” commanded by “Charge May”. The Southerners somehow won the scouting, forcing Chris to deploy first. It was clear that his right was to be his cavalry “schwerpunkt” with hoplites centre and left. Tony left only light forces facing Chris’ cavalry. Did we detect a “refused flank”, and almost a strategy from Tony? Surely not!
The battle proceeded briskly with both hoplite lines closing,
and Chris’ cavalry not fancying their chances in difficult terrain.
When the correspondent returned from providing the opposing Generals with tea, coffee and chocolate/caramel biscuits he noticed that the Thessalian left had somehow “disappeared”. The loss of only two units allowed the effete southerners to pour through.
Maybe they had seen that Chris’ camps were defended by naked people.
Chris’ chit pulling was truly inept. His centre stalled in a blizzard of “1”s, and gradually Tony turned the flank. The Thessalian flank march captured a camp but the southerners had victory medals in abundance, and laughed in Chris’ face. One of the Thessalian camps fell leaving the other in mortal danger. With some of his hoplite units in danger of complete annihilation and only 4 victory medals in play Chris called it a day.
It would be nice to say that this was a hard-fought battle. Shame I cannot.
Simon
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