Dux Bellorum: a Close End

The Great Battle for Mount Hardon continued this week with Quilpius Lamus and Iammius Gittus facing off against the Picts of Norris of the McWhirters and King Tugga of the Vanking Saxons.  This was looking more and more like the culminating game of the campaign.

The Pictish King faces off against Tribune Iammius on the flank.  Just before Iammius runs away.

The cataphracts finally manage a charge, into the centre of the Pictish line.  

On the Saxon flank the Vankings get stuck into the Romans. 

Jarl Skvirt attacks the Jazz Hands again.  The Manus Gothica hold out in an extraordinary fight that lasts almost the whole game.  They are renamed the Fortis Manus Gothica.

The Cataphracts kill off the Pictish warband opposing them, but once again are reduced to a pitiful few cohesion points, making them virtually useless for further action.

  

The Pictish Monks prayers to Vectron are more powerful since they are nude.  Vectron smiles on a naked supplicant!

Jarl Skvirt struggles to make any impact on the Jazz Hands

The Claws of Quilpius are shown on table, with some Roman anguish.  The Roman left is gone, but the Picts are in tatters. 

The Fortis Manus Gothica are shot down by Pictish archers.  Shame!   Jarl Skvirt storms up the hill ready to descend on the Romans beyond.

The Saxons have lost heavily too.  With only two units left from their original six they are on 66%, but with the Vankguard of the King and Jarl Skvirt still on table they are still powerful.

The end game.  The Pictish King in Combat with Quilpius, Iammius Gittus dead, and King Tugga about to attack again.  Both sides were over the 80% and it came down to cohesion points remaining.  With the VankGuard still pretty much fresh the Conspiracy of Barbarians had won the day.