15mm Roman vs Late Successor - Sword & Spear Rules

The might of Rome take on Late Successor to find out which was better, the Pike or the Pilum. 

Two Heavy foot armies go sandal to sandal to slug it out. This was a prep game for a big 1500 point per side, game that was taken to a few shows on the circuit.

 The Roman army is from a friends collection and the Successor is from my own collection, with various manufacturers figures, collected over many years of Bring & Buys! 

 600 points per side. Dicing for the terrain was rather interesting. The Roman won Scouting so Successor deployed first. 

 TURN 1: 

 

My Light horse were facing the wrong way  

The Roman Heavy Cavalry.

 

The bolt thrower 

 

 The pikes of the successor plod forward 

  

 

 

I had a Captain with the wrong unit. Cannot influence Elephants 

 

End of turn 1 

 

TURN2: I, as the Successor player, played aggressive and got my pikes forward ASAP, as we had not seen a proper Heavy Infantry clash. I used group movement twice and both times used bonus dice for extra movement. 

 

TURN 3: As you see the dice (should) have helped my cause as the Roman player Deferred his dice!  

After the first clash. The cataphract are hit in the flank! The skulls are kills 

 

There were a couple of Cavalry skirmishes and shooting 

  

 Casualties of turn 3 Successor 

 

 

Roman 

 

 Turn 4: Successor loses the cataphract in the center. 

 

And my last unit of Companions is about get it from all sides  

End of turn 4

 

End of turn 4 Casualties, My combat dice were atrocious Successor

 

 Roman

 

TURN 5: Roman allocation dice. You know when it's not your day! 

  

 And my 3 allocation dice were all 1s.........Oh Dear Bye, bye Pikes  

 End of turn 5

  

 End of turn 5 casualties Successor

  

Romans lost no units this turn due my terrible dice rolling again. we finish there as I took an amry test (over 1/3rd in army points lost), and virtually every one of my units except two, took a casualty from failing discipline test. Even though I lost, I thoroughly enjoyed the game.