Burmese in Gloucestershire…

[Martin Smith]

Six games at the Thornbury DBA yesterday,with a theme of 'The Fringes', so armies from the Americas, SE Asia, the Steppes and the African Sahel.

I took my daughter's Burmese army (III/9b), with elephants, auxilia and fast moving crossbowmen, supported by a few cavalry and guards in the form of fast swordsmen and slower crossbow troops.

My six games were:-

1. Invading the steppes, against Martin M.'s Alans. On my left crossbows picked off a few enemy light cavalry, while on the right other crossbowmen provoked a charge and were trampled by armoured cavalry and horse archers. Elephants intervened, and managed to scrape us a win, 4-2.
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2. Defending Burma from an invasion by Paddy M.'s Aztec swarm. The plan was to punch through the centre and then turn outwards, but it started going wrong when the Burmese general was unexpectedly forced back by Aztec hordes (6-1 dice roll). The Burmese elephants were then ably delayed by skirmishers. This gave the Aztecs enough time to rush suit-wearing types (blades and Wb) down my right flank to crush my crossbowmen. Loss 2 + 3 x Hd to 4.
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3. Now the Burmese headed west, to invade the territory of  Paul H.'s West Sudanese. Three patches of scrubland lay in front of the Burmese left, but we launched our elephants to the right of it, with the guard swordsmen and cavalry in support. Sudanese archers caused some damage, but the elephants ran down many more, and a charge by armoured cavalry (4Kn) was stopped in its tracks by the guard swordsmen. Win 4-2.

4. Further west now, to attack Stephen F.'s NW Americans, some of whom appeared from canoes on the Burmese front right. The elephants and guard swordsmen once again combined to attack enemy archers, and swiftly overran them for a 4-0 win.
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5. Back to the Sahel next, to attack Paul M.'s West Sudanese and their Tuareg ally. Pushing forward to put pressure on the Africans, the Burmese overextended...a counter attack by armoured and unarmoured cavalry brought down some of our foot, and then the Tuareg skirmishers KO'd the Burmese elephant general, who had pursued to his doom. Loss 0-3g.
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6. Last game, defending Burma against regular opponent Colin O.'s Meroitic Kushites. This was a confusing mess of combats, during which one of my elephants attacked the Kushite elephant general, lost the fight and fled. As it broke it routed some enemy archers behind it and then stumbled into another of my elephants, at which point both my elephants were scattered. Despite this and also because of it we managed a very tight 4-3 win.

A good day of games, with enough luck coming our way to nab bottom step on the podium. Well done, Ash's Burmese (🙃🐘🐘🐘).

[Imperial Dave]

lovely figures on show Martin

[gavindbm]

My Burmese were also in action over the recent weekend but at my local 25mm DBM competition and under the command of a friend - so a good excuse to post a picture of the elephants (25mm figures from Irregular Miniatures).
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[Adrian Nayler]

Excellent patience in painting the leg tattoos Gavin (though their tournament opponents might sarcastically allege they were wearing fishnets)! 

[Martin Smith]

lovely figures on show Martin

Yes, some of the gamers make a great effort (and certainly a more significant effort than yours truly..,) .