The Worlds in Rome 2022
Khurasanian vs Catalan Company
Game 1 Khurasanian vs Catalan Company
Game 2 Khurasanian vs Classical Indian
Game 3 Khurasanian vs 100YW English
Game 4 Khurasanian vs Later Byzantine
Game 5 Khurasanian vs Rajput Hindu Indian
Game 6 Khurasanian vs Catalan Company
With the world now all but back to normal, The Worlds had re-started in the ADLG Cinematic Universe with a return to the scene of the 2019 event, the Eternal City of Rome
This did mean an opportunity to spend all of those airline credit notes that had sat idle in the accounts of BA and others over the last few years, and also a chance to endure the random cancellations and flight time changes of their schedules in order to get on board and head for Italia
The Italian organising team had done us all proud with a keenly priced modern(ish) hotel on the outskirts of the city, so Team CLWC were all staying at the venue itself
With the combination of hot weather, possibly chilly indoor A/C, and staying in the same hotel meant that I also had to dig out, and quite literally dust off my trusty wheelie hand-luggage case to carry the army, rules, laptop to write these reports, and enough shorts and t-shirts to survive a possible Charleroi experience !
The Italian organising team had done us all proud with a keenly priced modern(ish) hotel on the outskirts of the city, which - unlike 2019 - had a gaming room which was a proper modern conference suite, light and airy and air conditioned in a way which was almost Goldilocks-esque in being not too hot and not too cold.
It also had a pool, which would allow the CLWC team to display our extensive range of aquatic skills and our equally extensive range of pale and pasty legs on numerous occasions between games over the coming weekend
I had opted, after much dithering, to take essentially the same Khurasanain army as I had used at the last Worlds in Rome in 2019, pre Covid
This had 2 very different lists, one an essentially Mongol-style almost all mounted version with an Abbasid ally designed to dance around the desert stepped of Transoxia and Iraq. The other was really best described as a Ghaznavid Lite army with a Dailami ally, which I had used to good effect in 2019 against enemies by hurling the elephant/Ghazi/Dailami combination against any wall of infantry I came across
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The lists for the Khurasanian and Catalan Company from this game, as well as all the other lists from the games at The Worlds in Rome can be seen here in the L'Art de la Guerre Wiki.
The Catalan Company is a list which has been upgraded in V4 of the rules by the introduction of a new troop type of Medium Spear Impact which models the performance of the Catalan Almughavars. One might suggest that the popularity of ADLG in Spain has something to do with this :-). As well as the Almughavars, the list can have a handy but not army-defining 2 Knights and a couple of Elite Impact horsemen as a rapier-like cutting edge to complement the anvil-like properties of the Almughavars when used against enemy cavalry. Add in a lot of potentially Elite LH and Light Foot shirmishers and its a flexible mixed horse and foot army rather than the resilient and aggressive infantry force that a read of the Almughavar troop category might suggest
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The Result is a timed-out draw
Read on for the post match summaries from the Generals involved, as well as another episode of legendary expert analysis from Hannibal
Post Match Summary from the Khurasanian Commander
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Hannibal's Post Match Analysis
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That's the end - so why not go back to the Match Reports Index and read some more reports?
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