Alexander the Great in Armageddon Tournament
Pregame
The tournament was nominally two days, with 13 players playing both days and 3 or 4 players playing just the one day on each of the Saturday and Sunday. I was playing only on the first day. Apart from playing with a classical army in an open period tournament, I expected my biggest challenge would be to finish my games in the scheduled time as normally my games are leisurely all day affairs.
Army lists
My Alexander the Great list
Games
Alexandrian vs Patrician RomansAlexandrian vs Medieval Scandinavian
Review
I brought the elephants because I expected to be facing more knights. There was no knights in my first game and in the second, two of the four mounted knights dismounted.
In the first game I wasn't able to get my pikes into combat effectively, and in the second game I wasn't only able to get a couple of units in the elephant corps into combat. In both games the medium cavalry unit in the pike corps ended up forgotten in the rear for lack of command pips, and the cavalry corps was not able to effectively defend the flank it was deployed on.
Impact heavy cavalry does seem to face more issues in an open comp than in the classical period that I am used to:
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Stakes cancel the Impact ability and Furious charge of all mounted troops including elephants. Additionally mounted troops, except elephants, suffer a -2 penalty in combat.
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Missile Support cancels the Furious charge of mounted troops
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Polearm has a +1 bonus in first round of a melee against mounted troops (except elephants), and when it wins a melee against mounted troops adds +1 to die roll before determining combat outcome.