Art De La Guerre

[madaxeman]

Last month my mostly Legio Heroica 15mm Sassanid Persian army fought its way out of the Bisley storage cabinet* for the first time in almost 8 years (!!) to conduct a 5-battle campaign against a number of fairly historical foes at the Roll Call competition in Cranfield.

All of the many highs (and lows) of this sequence of military misadventures have now been painstakingly captured and lovingly crafted into a semi-coherent wordy and verbose narrative for your delight and delectation, and are even now available on Madaxeman.com.



These include three battles against the Sassanids arch-enemies the Byzantines, as well as a Sassanid Civil War and a somewhat time travelling faceoff against the might of the Fatimid Caliphate.



You'll see Elephants, Camels, fierce hill tribesmen and well-drilled Roman-style cavalry whirling across a number of tabletops, all with the added bonus of all of the in-stream historical videos, dreadful puns, partially-relevant animated GIFs, and vague attempts to explain the rules of the game that you may by now have come to love and dread in equal measure.



There are - of course - also a great many photos in which you can see what the soldiers are saying and thinking on the tabletop, blatantly false and self-congratulatory summaries of the battle from the Great Shah, and all topped off with the usual bitingly acerbic analysis from Hannibal himself.

So, pour yourself a cup of Iranian tea and get ready to dunk into the un-digestive-able narrative that is 5 all new Sassanid Persian battle reports on Madaxeman.com!

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[MarkK]

As someone who has been toying with the Fatamid list I was looking at the army list you posted and wondered if I had missed a trick? Why would you choose HC Bw and 1/2 and half spear and Bw (both of which seem completely unreliable troop types never having been able to lay a glove on the oppo with either of those or even have them do anything against me in any battle ever) when you can have Impact Cv and heavy Sp support for the same points? Am I missing something?

[Three]

Is Roll Call indeed the first big "UK" event of the year?
Both the Scottish Open (January) and Schiltron (March) had bigger 15mm fields, 34 & 36 players respectively.
If you add in the 28mm field then admittedly Roll Call is slightly bigger at 40 players overall, but it's a bit of a stretch to have it as the "first" big one of the year

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[MarkK]

Ah gotcha - I think I need to upgrade my dice as all they do is run off the table for me

[Black Prince]

Hi Tim, thanks for posting it was great after not visiting your page for a couple of week to look today to find 5 battle reports - Thanks.

One question - how did Andy get 6 Elite HC impact 1/2 bow I thought the list only allowed 4 HC to be Elite?

Andy Ellis' winning list from Roll Call 2025
Turkish Ally
4 LH Bow Elite
2 HCv Bow Elite, Included Ordinary Commander
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2 LH Bw
4 Elite HCv 1/2 & 1/2, included Ordinary General
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Strategist
2 HCv Elite 1/2 & 1/2
3 HCv 1/2 & 1/2
1 LH Bow
1 MCv 1/2 & 1/2
1 Bowman

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[Black Prince]

Hi Tim,

Thanks, if the 2 Elite HC impact 1/2 bow are HC bow Eltile then that takes the points total 200. I find it interested to have a look army designs that win comps.