At this month's club's games day I had a much more relaxed opportunity to try this scenario again. Simon and Marc were the Carthaginians, Stephen and I were the Romans and I also had command of the Numidians.
Previous AAR and info on the Zama scenario for Basic Impetus can be found here:
https://onesidedminiaturewargamingdiscourse.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-battle-of-zama.html
Deployment as per the scenario
A cautious few turns ensued
The Carthaginians have a definite advantage with the Numidians
A close up prior to action developing on the right
The fight is on as the Roman's Numidian allies surge forward
The Roman Legions are now advancing
The elephants are getting ready to charge
(superbly painted by Mark Woods, I am very fortunate to have this army in my possession)
The Carthaginian left is under threat
Now the Carthaginian right has come into action
along with the elephants
The elephants are having a hard time
as are the Carthaginian flanks
The situation as seen from the Carthaginian side
The Carthaginian front line has broken
The Carthaginian second line has broken.
The veteran Spanish have been vanquished (after being charged in the flank)
both units of veteran Gauls have been blunted
Only Hannibal remains with the veteran Libyans.
At this stage it would have been cruel to play on. The Romans had just lost one unit of velites and one of Numidian light cavalry. Hard work for the Carthaginians, but they did have some poor die rolls. Will be interesting to try with the Gauls as large units also a change in command structures and free deployment.
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