Minoans vs Egyptians

I played in a big game of Art De La Guerre (ADLG) last night. I'm still not sure about these rules. I won't deny that the game rattled along nicely and gave a decisive result, but there's lots of fiddly factors which seem quite hard to memorise. But it's not unplayable and I'll admit that I enjoyed myself. I'll also admit that I still prefer DBA v3.0; I can live without chrome and detail in my ancients games.

Anyway, I'm not sure how many points we played, but we had four commands a side and around 34 troop elements each. Apparently that was a big game.

Geoff provided his Minoan Greeks whilst Dave brought along some contemporary flavour of Egyptians to oppose them.

Geoff and I took the Minoans whilst Dave and ... Dave were the Egyptians. Peter adjudicated.

My two commands. I had a large force of infantry covering our right-centre, consisting of spearmen and archers. On my right was our army's elite chariot strike-force. This faced their Egyptian opposite numbers and they pretty much stared at each other all game.

The Egyptians pushed forward aggressively, probably helped by the fact that their Libyan contingent was pretty impetuous. It charged my spearmen.

The initial rush saw some big holes appear in my line.

Geoff's armoured spearmen were attacked by Egyptians with various chopping weapons, and suffered pretty badly.

Meanwhile my spearmen had halted the Libyan attack and proceeded to wipe them out.

They were wiped out almost as rapidly as Geoff's spearmen

With our army hovering on the edge of a catastrophic morale failure I felt I had nothing to lose in committing my chariots. The fight was indecisive and after one round the rest of the Minoan army decided that it had had enough and fled. 

It wasn't a complete whitewash; I think we got the Egyptians to about 2/3rds of their breakpoint. Things had looked quite good on my flank. It was only when I looked to my left that I saw just how badly Geoff's troops were suffering. 

Anyway, and enjoyable game. Thanks to all who put it together.