Freezing! Armies before 0AD at Avignon 2019
Sargonid Assyrian vs Ugaritic
Game 1 Sargonid Assyrian vs Galatian
Game 2 Sargonid Assyrian vs Carthaginian
Game 3 Sargonid Assyrian vs Ugaritic
Game 4 Sargonid Assyrian vs Kushan
Game 5 Sargonid Assyrian vs Alexander The Great
With the southern French rain by now teeming down outside the idea of a biblical desert battle seemed entirely appropriate for the final session of the afternoon.
Luckily that was what was in store, as an old DBM classic of the Ugaritics (who?) trundled across the stone floor of the medieval olive pressing plant in which we were playing and slapped themselves down on the table across from the mighty Lions of Assyria
The lists for the Sargonid Assyrian and Ugaritic from this game, as well as all the other lists from the games at Avignon can be seen here in the L'Art de la Guerre Wiki.
The Ugarits are a textbook copycat Assyrian/Babylonian/Egyptian army with lots of light chariots which work well in tight themes but start to struggle against more coherently equipped armies.
For Light Chariots to work they tend to need an open field with space to attack flanks - resembling a biblical era Mongol horse horde more than anything else
Being the Biblical era, agriculture was slowly spreading across the civilized world and in this particular battle it had managed to inch it's way about 1/3 across the table before petering out into a wide open expanse of chariot friendly plains.
As local camel-herders surveyed the scene they could see that the Ugarits had filled this space with a combination of Light and Heavy Chariots against which the Assyrian army was pretty much fully arrayed.
Neither side seemed to keen to trample the newly-planted crops filling some of Rafa's fields on the Assyrian left.
