The IWF in Athens 2006
Game 2 vs Alexandrian Macedonian
This time I was also attacking
The Greeks - on a fairly open table - had deployed rather defensively, with 2 blocks of pike sort of filling a gap between 2 rough hills, and a host of auxilia and some blades and LH pushed forward to their left (my right). My Teutons were in the wrong place, and needed to be painstakingly redeployed. I had selected the "standard" list this time.
In a terrifying flashback to previous editions of the rules, my light horse mini command rushed forwards to screen off one the of main pike commands. Fortunately, in their redesigned 7+General incarnation, they were wide enough to delay the pikemens advance, as well as to also sell a 2nd hand Cortina and 6 cases of cheap French lager to a bloke they met in the pub that lunchtime.
On my right, auxilia pushed forwards also, supported by wagons to try and
sweep a tiny Greek skirmish screen away, and get their toes into the RGo on the hill
before the Companions could come into play. At the back, the Teutons attempted
to maneuver behind the whole army, and then somehow replace and reinsert
themselves through the auxilia. 
On the far right, there was a brief flurry of excitement, as another large block of light horse jumped over the rough hill, hoping to overwhelm the much smaller Macedonian mounted contingent
But the Alexians were able to bring up auxilia and blades quite quickly to take that side of the table out of contention as an area where the match may be decided.
By now the Companions had surprised me by quickly moving up over the rough hill, and deploying out to threaten my auxilia - as the pikemen also shuffled around and closed in on the wagons.
I was locked into a desperate race against time - would I be able to complete a painstaking substitution of the Teutons for the Auxilia before the Companions could mount a serious attack?
Would they dare charge in whilst the wagons were still in play?
Would the grilled sausage I ate for lunch repeat on me again ?
Would I be able to take all my photos with a better white balance from now on?
But by now, seriously interesting stuff was starting to happen elsewhere.
The Greeks had been throwing pips into my right flank and their centre had been slowly advancing to press my light horse and threaten the wagons. But this had left their right flank becalmed and still pinned on the start line - and a huge gap had opened up between the two pike commands.
Spotting an opportunity, the Lithuanian CinC shoved both his warwagons and some Bw (I) into it, in an attempt to jemmy open the entire Greek army!
The Greeks responded with Cv(O), the Lithuanians then reinforced
with LH O siphoned off from the right - this also forced the pikemen into an
advance, as they had to clear out the wagons before they 
butchered
the Greek cavalry and unhinged the whole line!
With the Acropolis looming in the background, one wagon even made a dash for the end zone - only for the Greeks to bring back pikemen from their central command to try and deal with it.
But with odd elements facing all over the shop, and with the wagons spraying out lead from every orifice, there was bound to be a disaster or two - soon the Greeks had lost some pikemen to recoils blocked by light horse, the cavalry were gone, and only their general survived - overrun and surrounded.
The Teutons by now had managed to fight their way through my own infantry, and we were trading blows on my right quite successfully - the wagons were fighting heroically to hold up the Greek pikemen who were finding it tough in a very cramped and confusing space to bring sufficient weight of arms to bear to overwhelm the wagons cleanly.
With the clock ticking, the game was coming down to a question of whether I could kill the trapped cavalry general who was wedged in between 2 commands of pike and a large number of my light horse and war wagons. If he fell, I would then see what the loss of his command (which had already lost 5 elements) did to the army - I didn't even have time to count how close I was!.
With time running out, he was surrounded, I had little else to do except charge the one or two of my own elements required into him and fight the combat, and then pass the command roll dice to my opponent as soon as possible.
What a great time to roll 6 6 5 6 .....................
However, after a lightning fast move across the rest of the table, and spotting a rare opportunity for personal heroics, the Lithuanian LH sub-general pleaded with his boss to be allowed to deliver the coup-de-grace to the now rather battered Greek pike command. With support to burn, he charged in at the not unreasonable 3-2 up and no recoils to break the command and kill the general (as the only element able to reach him frontally).
Of course, 6-1 ensued and the Lithuanian general returned to LH heaven, a bitter and twisted corpse!
Despite this tragic reverse, I then survived the next dice roll, and with game turns ticking down threw everything once more into an attempt to nail the Greek cavalry general.
The way to do so was obvious - shoot the cavalry general with the war wagons. I didn't even have to move this time - and obligingly my pips were not quite as good this time.
Another speedy bound ensued.
This time the trapped general was successfully shot down!
The Greek CinC Picked up and rolled his dice - it was not (the 7) required!
THE COMMAND WAS BROKEN!!!!!!
The final whistle blew moments later.........
and in the final reckoning, the Alexandrian army had taken exactly 50% casualties - it was a last gasp total victory for the Lithuanians!!!
Post match analysis
This was a cagey game for quite some time - there was no combat until the 7th bound - as I struggled to find a way through the pikemen, and the Alexandrians sought advantage against my wagon, Teuton and auxilia formation. In the end though, the central pike command pushed on too far ahead of its sister formation as it sought to attack my wagons and expose my auxilia to the Companions. The only troops available to fill this gap were the 3 Cv (O), which the warwagons were ideally suited to fight.
The deep pike formations also found it very hard to contact the wagons cleanly, as they had spilled across the table at odd angles as they sought to get in shots, and with some judicious falling back as well, they remained out of range of the pikemen for long enough to allow the damage to be done elsewhere.
The Teutons had started deployed in entirely the wrong place, but had managed to come back into play due to the late start of combat.
