23nd Australian Ancients Championships - Cancon 2001

The Players (1)

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Peter Rosetti (left) with Seleucids plays young Duncan Curtis and his Late Imperial Romans. The Seleucids went down 1-9.
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Peter's strike command of knights & elephants moving in for the kill (or be killed!)
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David Woodcock (left) with Early Samurai had a near perfect run until round 5 when he met Greg Russell's West Sudanese.
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David's Bd(F) Warrior Monks about to become speed humps to an angry herd of stampeding Sudanese cows.
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Marcus Watson (left) with Classical Indian faces Mike Walsh's Sea Peoples invasion. Marcus deploy a river to break up Mike's attack.
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Mike's right flank charges into Indian warwagons and Cv(O) chariots while his Libyans in the far top left remain unreliable.
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Martin Morgan (left) with Middle Assyrian faces Dean Morris' Gallic hordes.
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The trap is set. While charging the Assyrian head on, the Gauls are caught in the rear by the enemy flank march appearing top right.
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John Mumford using Early Acheamenid Persians relaxes during his game against David Quilty with New Kingdom Egyptian
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John's Sparabara with supporting war towers advances, the Egyptian right  flank seems to have disappeared against the scythed chariots.
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Hernan Pinto-Lopez with Medieval Portuguese meets Scott Nicholas with the same army.
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Hernan's CinC command of knights with supporting Auxilia in the background..
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Peter Ware running Patrician Romans faces John McCartney with his surprise selection of Mithridatic.
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Mithridatic hordes looking on nervously as Romanised Kn(F) bear down upon them.
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Bowmaster Dean Beddlington using West Sudanese plays "Tupi Boy" Jason Williams in what ended in a hard fought 4-6 draw.
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West Sudanese Irr Bw(I) come to grips with Tupi Wb(F) supported by Bw(S).
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Selwyn Peake with Christian Nubian plays John Shaw with Abbasids.
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John has had some success with his Abbasid Cv(S) here pursuing a routed Nubian command.
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Glenn Harvey and Abbasids plays Scotsman John McQualter using pre-Feudal Scots. John was the only true Scot, running an actual Scottish army (with Viking ally).
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Abbasid auxiliaries about to be swamped by Irr Bd(O) Viking allies.