When Assyria was in Egypt's Land: HAVOC game 1

The snow on Friday and Saturday of HAVOC this year had a huge effect on attendance all three days, although the forecast was worse than the reality for points SOUTH of the site, as related in my last post. Thus I felt fortunate indeed to six players for the game, none of whom had ever played To the Strongest! before although about half the players were at least aware of the rules.

The players, from far to near were:

Assyria:             Egypt:
Nate                    Greg
Caleb                  Bob
Leif                     Dan

In the early going Nate, Caleb, and Lief on the Assyrian side look on while Greg and Bob maneuver their Egyptian troops. 

The Egyptians have a much more coherent line at this stage!

The very powerful Assyrian 4 horse Chariots try to try down the their lighter Egyptian opposition, but Dan keeps making the card draw for Evasion successfully!

Nate's Assyrians have largely over run Greg's Egyptians on this flank; Ramses' boys are running very low on victory medals... although both the Egyptian and the Assyrian C-in-C in this game were lost in battle!

In the infantry battle, the better armor and quality of the Assyrians didn't seem to be enough to make for the larger numbers of more lightly armed Egyptians.

By the end of the game, though the calculus had reversed, and it was Assyria who proved to be The Strongest this time!

Thanks to all of the players who braved the elements to attend! Everyone seemed to enjoy the game despite the one major error I made at first handling formed archers in melee, to Caleb's disadvantage.