Friday, 3 January 2025

The Testiad, Book Two, the battle in the Mist

 Of King Testes I speak, swollen and Proud after Victory,

He advances on the Greeks, Mighty King of Tumesces.

But the mist comes down, and it's all a bit of a cock-up.

Oh sing ye muses, shall he be victorious, or is he yet fated?

The field of mist

And as we deployed we realised that the mist had messed with us.


A cautious central advance for the Sea Peoples as we attacked the Greek flanks.


And I have to admit that the heroes shooting reflected the Iliad quite nicely.

Gradually we closed in.  Not too impetuous but then again Testes is an old hand at this kind of job.


The Greeks were waiting g for the mist to lift.  It didn't.


Meanwhile the Sea Peoples bullied the flanks.

Finally Testes charges in.

And my dice were enough to win big occasionally as well as stave off defeat repeatedly.

The centre of both lines breaks into small groups melees

And it's all pretty evenly matched although Testes is wounded with a spear up his chitterlings.

The Greek chariots shooting is pretty great.

Bur tge Sea Peoples use the open flanks to support with light chariots and javelinmen.

The end of Pajamarama's hopes, as the Sea Peoples bite at both his flanks and the centre Melee sees him held.  To be honest it was a brutal fight that went both ways. 

Fated Testes wins again though wounded.  I shall field him as a level 2 hero in the next game to reflect the spear to his chitterlings.  I fear for his future.