That interpretation of the texts makes sense. Thanks for the extensive answer!

Div A

Nijis (Meroitic) beat tmac11 (Roman) 60-36.

For once, the Nubians withstood the charge of high-quality infantry long enough to bring their numbers to bear.

Question - on the Hoysala friezes and elsewhere, you often see what appear to be unarmored riders on barded horses. I assume it's an artistic convention to sometimes depict warriors without armor that they would normally wear in battle, as the Greeks sometimes did?

Div B -

Nijis (Blemmye) defeats Najanaja (Byzantines) 52-21.

The maneuverable Nubian defensive spear was able to corner a mostly cavalry army after their camelry - barely - managed to break the momentum of the Greek lancers' initial charge.

Div B

Nijis (Blemmye) defeats Morat (Ostrogoths) 61-41.

The Blemmye's combination of spear, bow, horsemen and camels was able to overwhelm the elite lancers, but at a heavy price.

Div A

Nijis (Meroitic) defeats Gdod (Spartan) 60-43.

Fortune smiled on the Nubians. Their raw infantry, for once, held their own against their counterparts, while their elephants smashed through the Spartan line and turned around to trample their way down the length of their foes' right flank.

You want the cnc in exclusive charge of zero units in fact, which can be done by shifting him to a unit that is under a subgeneral and then reassigning the unit he was on. Ah! Didn't think of that. Anyway, it would be nice to assign these fairly low-consequence and somewhat high-effort assignments ...

Please ignore if I've missed a function that already does this. One small part of the game that I find a little tedious is reassigning units to commanders after setup. I'm not aware of any way to do this more efficiently than unit-by-unit. I'd be happy with an auto-assign button that just uses the e...

Div B

Nijis Blemmye 298-499 vs frederic02 Romans 379-424 + Armenian 253-476 allies
Nijis Blemmye 298-499 vs Trogdor666 Indo-Parthian 60BC-130AD + Indian 500BC-319AD allies
Nijis Blemmye 298-499 vs Najanaja Byzantine 551–578

Challenges created and DMs sent.

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Good luck all!

I think the bigger problem is that there is no disincentive to turtle on a defensible edge within the context of the particular 1-1 battle. Yes, in a tournament you get penalized for a 0-0 draw, but that seems like a game of chicken. Typically one side would find itself under some political or logis...

Div A

Nijis (Meroitic) challenges Deeter (Lysimachid 320-281 w Seleucid allies)

Nijis (Meroitic) challenges tmac11 (Roman 219-200BC w Pergamene 262-191BC allies)

DMs sent

PW meroe

River or stream? I've never had a major river separating deployment zones. I think it was relatively common in ancient and medieval battles to have a stream (in FoG terms) running roughly parallel to the two armies. Pretty much any valley will have some sort of watercourse in the middle, even a dry ...

Div A Nijis (Meroitic) defeats Stones1985 (Elamite), 63-57. Extremely close game. Each side's left flank crushed their opposing flank, with the Elamites coming off ahead in terms of casualties and routed units. When the victorious flanks wheeled to face each other, however, Elamite chariots in the o...

Div B

Nijis (Blemmye) defeats Grahamed (Sassanids) 64-43.

Plentiful camels and cavalry were able to overwhelm their higher quality Persian counterparts, while Blemmye infantry for once was able to slug it out with their foot adversaries without giving way.

Div B

Nijis (Blemmye) defeats alexstandish (Hephthalites) 48-10.

The Huns cut down swathes of Blemmye, but the Red Sea foot were numerous enough to soak up the arrows and overwhelm the elite archers of the steppe.

I have encountered this problem with several multiplayer games starting around GMT 0830 on Aug 4. The server does not seem to be accepting my uploaded turns after I move my units, forcing me to retry multiple times. It does seem to work on some attempts, although it might require me to abandon the t...

Div B

Nijis (Blemmye) defeats ulysisgrunt (Avars) 43-13.

Quantity overcame quality, as hordes of camels backed by foot archers swamped the elite steppe cavalry.

I doubt this comes up very much, but if by any chance you are planning to do tournaments from northern India, here's a PSA: I was in the state of Ladakh, and I was unable to do any turns or even access the Slitherine website, from any device, to send DMs to my opponents. I could not also access the ...

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1. Meroitic, 280 BC to 400 AD
2. Indian 500 BC to 319 AD
3. Seleucid 205 BC to 167 AD

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1. Blemmya 298-499 AD
3. Nobatae 500-549 AD
3. Axumite 100-970 AD