This time it was just a quick round of DBA3 with my wife, who was kind enough to indulge on a slow evening. We r.ployed my Wars of the Roses Yorkist and Lancastrian armies, on arable terrain with a city in the center.
Since I forget which army is which, I will refer to them as red and blue.
Red (myself) was defending, so I set up my army in a battle line across a field, with one unit of Blades detached to hold the city, and a unit of Psiloi detached into the woods on my left. Blue set up opposite, with no terrain of note to deal with. On the first bound, we established that the fields were dry and hard, offering no terrain penalties.
Both armies pressed forward, and Blue's Blades threw themselves into the fray in the city - with extraordinary luck, they immediately routed the defenders, and set to plundering!
The rest of Blue's army advanced and dressed off to face Red, and we were set for a general advance until Blue's general began shuffling her forces, trying to bring more bows to bear and maneuver her piles around the city to join in.
Sensing opportunity, Red's general and his Knights rushed forward and hit the enemy's left. In the ensuing melee, Blue lost Blades, her General, and her Psiloi, leaving the Blue army routing in tatters, and the path open to her camp for the impetuous Knights.
All in all, it was short and sweet as all DBA3 games are, and despite having lost familiarity with the rules over time we picked them back up reasonably quickly (though we may have played cities wrong? With the exception of one lost unit for Red the city had little effect on the battle overall).
It is also always fun to break out the sand table. It is very well suited to DBA, allowing one to go through the terrain setup quickly and kinetically, and providing, in my opinion, a much more aesthetic effect than terrain plonked on a mat possibly could.
Until next time!
