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Roman Civil War AAR The following battle took place at Castle's Games and Gifts in Northern Colorado Springs, Co on Aug 7th 2008. This was setup to be a classic: on the one side Caesar’s army of northern Italia with its Gallic and Spanish allies facing Pompey’s army of Syria with its large number of archers. I have to say that I was excited to see how those two armies would fare against each other. I got to Castles Games & Gifts a little early to set up everything. As I was putting stuff on the table, the players trickled in: Fred, David, Rich and the other David. Excellent! Rich & Fred took on the role of Caesar while the two David took on Pompey’s mantle. The first few turns saw both lines advance on each other. Ineffective use of missile fire (horrible, horrible rolls on both sides) led to well, nothing to report. The first major event was when Pompey’s blue cohort charged into the flanks of Caesar’s gauls and ran them down. Things look good for Pompey. The Cohort then broke a unit of Lanciarii who were in the woods. However, things went south quickly for Pompey. Both of the cohorts: purple and Green sent to hold the center were double-teamed, broken and destroyed by Caesar’s cohorts. On the Pompeian right, the Pompeian equites and the Caesarean sagitarii eyed each other without engaging combat. Combat on the Pompeian left continued as the blue cohort pulled itself out of the woods and charged into the yellow cohort in a desperate bid to delay defeat. The red cohort caught Pompey’s standard and a tough battle started. With their center broken, the equites charged and broke the Gallic sagitarii and ran them off the board. Subsequent combats on the right flank saw the cavalry score a few more victories, by breaking skirmishers and the Spanish horses. Pompey’s eagle finally fell and the blue cohort broke against the raw recruits. With only his cavalry intact, we called it a night, David (there was only one left at that time) ceded the field to Caesar Fred & Rich both of whom had all their cohorts left, their general, lanciarii, auxilia infantry and skirmishers. As a final analysis, I think that Pompey should’ve used his cavalry earlier to prevent Caesar from being able to focus all his cohorts in the center. And dice rolls. Abysmal! JP thanking: Castle G&G, Fred, Rich, David & David and Kevin (for moral support)
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