The second DBM battle on the go on Saturday was the Sassanids controlled by myself and a Greek army controlled by Robert. It was a replay of a game a few weeks prior with the addition of some rules we had overlooked.
I already new I would be up against it as the Sassanids last time were well and truly humped but I wanted to try it out with the exact same army as last time to see if there would be any change in the outcome.
And the answer was a big fat NO!
Despite looking like a rather taste army the Sassanids don't appear to be a good army to fight massed spears.
I'm new to DBM and it is well worth getting beat to see the deficiency's of each troop type as well as their positive aspects.
The little white sheeted dudes doing what they do best. Making up the numbers!
Lesson 1 : I now know what the point of the little white dudes are (and it's not just to get massacred) they increase your numbers in each unit so you can take more casualties.
Lesson 2 : Elephants although pretty have their time and place and it is not fighting Greek spears and pikes!
Lesson 3 : I need to build a couple of DBM armies of my own that have different abilities that can fight different opponents.
Lesson 4 : Greeks are pretty tough opponents especially with superior troops spread amongst them.
Robert menacing little Greek dudes with the Spartan superior troops displaying their red upside down V's.
Robert and I managed to squeeze in 2 games on the Saturday afternoon. The 1st was a crushing defeat however the 2nd I decided to ditch the elephants and set out a bit better. and used the little white dudes properly.
However although I wasn't getting massacred in droves neither could I make the breakthrough.
The Greeks were just too damn strong and even when I was rolling 6's my opponent rolled just enough to save them or the superior troop factor would save them. In the same vain my cavalry would flee then return to the battle and it took a long time for Robert to kill enough of my guys for the game to be over.
In the end all I was killing was the Greek skirmishers.
So 2 defeats on the trot but I feel I learnt a lot and would like to learn more about the flank march that can get the cavalry behind the Greek troops.FiguresGreeks : Robert T
Sassanids : Stuart L
The 2nd battle saw David up against Robert (who dropped in on his way down for a paper).
So more pretty pictures of the 2 armies facing up.
Again I have no idea who won the battle?
David's Sassanid army is pretty much all cavalry.
Some Sassanid cavalry taking on the Romans.
More Sassanid cavalry.
And a big hand with the DBM measuring stick.
More fighting.
Now this picture looks as though the Romans might have cleared away a lot of the Sassanid cavalry threat? But I can't be sure?
There were 2 DBM games played by the end of Saturday both with the same figures.
The 1st game was David P snr and Jon B as the Sassanids. You can pretty much work out what the 2 elephant crews are saying to each other.
Up against JP with the Romans.
The guys haven't been doing points battles so it's been a case of put down on the table what you have painted.
This week both armies came from David P's growing collection
I have no idea who won in the end as I wasn't paying attention?
David P, John M and JP set up a fine looking DBM game. John M is dipping his toe in the water of 15mm DBM so we look forward to seeing a nice army from him in the near future.
David P and John M controlled the swollen ranks of Romans and allies againt JP's Celts.
The guys haven't been doing the army points system for their troops yet so it was just a case of put on the table what you have painted so the odds were stacked against JP who as usual took it in his stride.
The game had the most 6's rolled I have ever seen (JP's dice) with David rolling nine 6's out of eleven roles at 1 point!!!! With JP rolling his fair share too.
However it was a victory for David and John.
Didn't pay much attention to this 1 a few weeks ago as John M and myself were too busy giving the younger lads at the club a lesson in kicking as and rolling dice . . . Yeah, who's the daddy!!!!
So some pretty pictures of some colourful troops. All these troops are from the collection of David P
Who buys the best Christmas presents?
Sassinachs.
Roman cavalry and friends
Don't turn your back on me when I'm photographing you!
Your doing it again!!!!
That's more like it. Sassanid cavalry
And the efalumps
See their doing it again!!!
In the end a Sassanid victory I believe?
I'm surprised they recovered from the many times I got them wiped out against the Greeks! 
Again I didn't get a chance to pay much attention to this game so here are some pretty pictures of the combatants.
A Roman stone thrower type thing. I can't be assed to look up the spelling so I will type it how it sounds TREE-BUSH-EEEE!l How was that :-)
Some Romans and Sacinid cavalry mixing it up.
Some big efalumps rumbling around.
David's extra Romans that I convinced him to buy at Kirriemuir, Bargain!
I already new I would be up against it as the Sassanids last time were well and truly humped but I wanted to try it out with the exact same army as last time to see if there would be any change in the outcome. And the answer was a big fat NO!
Despite looking like a rather taste army the Sassanids don't appear to be a good army to fight massed spears.
I'm new to DBM and it is well worth getting beat to see the deficiency's of each troop type as well as their positive aspects.
The little white sheeted dudes doing what they do best. Making up the numbers!
Robert menacing little Greek dudes with the Spartan superior troops displaying their red upside down V's.
Robert and I managed to squeeze in 2 games on the Saturday afternoon. The 1st was a crushing defeat however the 2nd I decided to ditch the elephants and set out a bit better. and used the little white dudes properly.
However although I wasn't getting massacred in droves neither could I make the breakthrough.
In the end all I was killing was the Greek skirmishers.
For a nice change JP brought along a different army to fight David's growing Roman legions.
And very colourful it looked too.
As well as all the spears and pikes JP had included 2 nice efelumps.
David's Romans with skirmishers out front ready to do battle with the enemy.
And his new Roman auxiliaries that I persuaded him to buy up at Kirriemuir.
The sabre rattling begins.
Combat breaks out.
Alexander and his merry band.
A face off with Alexander and David's Roman cavalry.
Davids 1st attempt at taking down the efelumps that ended in failure.
Davids 2nd attempt at taking down John's Elephant and this time successful.