Turn 1N.B. by dint of only printing the end three pages of the army list the old knight shield rules were use by mistake for this turn. Turn two onwards used the correct rules. Minervans win the initiative and go first, the manticore battery hitting the Baron’s formation for 3BMs. Most formations double and place BMs with minor casualties. The Baron’s formation and the Crusaders both fail to activate. The shadowsword downs a Crusader with a critical, breaking them due to a previous BM. The Knights use their squires to block off the gaps between the forest and building blocks, preventing the Minervans from marching past the middle of the board. On the left flank both sides screen with scouts and BM, setting up and blocking assaults for next turn, the salamanders break after taking casualties from doubling lancers.
The wooded left flank:
Tanks and knights face off on the roads of the industrial complex:
Both flights of thunderbolts BM the lancers, tanking AA fire from ballistae as they disengage with the loss of one aircraft. The Baron, LR exterminators and shadowsword fail to remove BMs.
Turn 2Minervans win the initiative and with the SC re-roll sustain on the knight errant’s that were threatening the exterminator formation on the road. The executioners MW plasma misses, but the volley of battle cannon shells hit home, blowing away three erratns and breaking the formation.
In response the crusader formation sustains on the exterminators, destroying two. The squires retain, advancing to block the SHT company from moving up the road and placing another blast marker on the exterminators, which break from casualties this turn and failing to remove BMs in the previous turn. The SHT company fails to activate and pepper the nearby paladin formation with seven hits, all saved.
On the left flank the squires advance and re-break the rallied salamanders. The tank platoon of conquers that had been screened by the salamanders sustain on the lancers, killing one for nine hits. Across the lancers, the paladin formation advances and BMs the conquerors. Not wanting to risk assault with the conquerors due to casualties and BMs the lancers instead charge the manticores, wiping them out as they reloaded from the previous turn’s barrage.
The shadowsword fires on the crusaders again, missing. The Baron marshals his formation, removing four BMs. The Thunderbolt formation that had taken casualties the previous turn stands down while the second BMs the squires on the left flank. The final formation of Paladins place a blast marker on the shadowsword.
The broken exterminator formation fails to rally and the shadowsowrd, crusaders and the paladin formation up road from the SHTs fail to remove BMs.
End of turn 2. Reasonably light casualties: four dead knights, the manticores wiped out and a three LR exterminators destroyed. The knights have advanced into the Minervan half, blocking the Legion's advance with scouts.
