|The 2nd, 3rd and 4th Cohorts, forming the left wing of the army.|
This game, again, saw my early imperial Romans fighting against Hannibal and his Carthaginians.
I had added a small unit of archers this time as well as another cohort of legionaries. The full army was in two divisions, one of three cohorts of infantry and a scorpion, led by Rufus Corvinus. The second was a cohort of veterans, one of Praetorians and one of auxiliary infantry with a small unit of auxiliary archers. This one was led by the Emperor. I am, by the way, fully aware of the anachronism of there being an emperor in an army fighting Carthaginians. That's what happens when you have EIR fighting against an empire that was destroyed three hundred years before they existed.
|The Emperor's division. Veterans in front, praetorians behind. Auxiliary infantry is to the (picture) left.|
|Veterans and Iberians and elephants, oh my!|
|The cavalry was on the Carthaginian left flank, behind the trees.|
|The African horse advance to hold the left flank.|
|The last moments of the Carthaginian cavalry.|
While the horse was dying in a loud and grisly manner, the rest of the army advanced towards Rufus, anchoring it's flanks on the forest and the hill. There was not quite room for all of the line to fit in, so one unit of veterans held back.
|The Carthaginian infantry line positions itself for the fight.|
|The three lines of infantry attempting to form line to engage the Africans.|
|The opposing battle lines are formed and ready.|
|The final line prepares to charge the African veterans.|
|The Praetorians finally get their act together and charge.|
|The auxiliaries accomplish their mission by threat and bluff.|
|One unit of Spanish is already gone. The next will follow soon. The veterans wouldn't die, but they were pushed back repeatedly.|
|Hannibal's division is broken, leaving a single unit of veterans to contest the field.|
I'm still loving Hail Caesar and the games are just getting more and more fun as we add more units.