Path of an Outcast: Mortem et Gloriam - CanCon 2019 - Introduction

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Mortem et Gloriam - CanCon 2019 - Introduction - 2019/01/31

Hello!

One of the biggest games related event in Australia is CanCon. It takes place during the first long weekend of January and this year it was 26-28th. It is held in Canberra and attracts large crowd of enthusiasts of a huge variety of games. People attend tournaments, events, visit trade stands and participate in many different activities.

I attended my first CanCon in 2011 and I missed only a single event since then. I have always participated in 3 day tournament and this year was no different. However, this time I took part in Mortem et Gloriam event, organized by Dean from Olympian Games. Unfortunately, Dean was not an active participant as he was busy advertising Mortem et Gloriam to as many potential players at his trading stand as possible.

Sixteen players registered and all of them arrived to the venue safely. It was great to see players coming even from Perth to attend the event and we had a great variety of armies. Here is the list of players and their respective armies:

1 Stephen - Arab Conquest
2 Andrew C. - Numidians
3 Andrew W. - Picts
4 Mitchell - County of Edessa
5 Carl - Khurisanian
6 Pawel - Early Selucids
7 David - Macedonian Succesor
8 Dru - Alamanni
9 Geoff - Senguko Samurai
10 Leigh - Mid Republican Romans
11 Paul - Imperial Roman
12 Craig - Graeco-Bactrian
13 Trevor - Tutonic Order
14 Robert - Mid Republican Romans
15 Jacob - Mid Republican Romans
16 Stephen - 100 Yrs War - French

It was also good to see that Romans were quite popular as I hoped to get as many relatively accurate historical match-ups as possible.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank Will who helped us with checking the army lists prior to the event! (Check out his blog for MeG content - http://madlemmey.blogspot.com/)

I took my trusted Early Seleucids to the event. I was very happy with the fact that I managed to finish painting entire army two weeks prior to the tournament. It took me several months to do so but I am very satisfied with the overall effect.

Early Seleucids - 218 BCE

I was looking forward to the event, especially that prior to it I had only a single game at 10,500 points. Here are the details of the army list I took:

Early Seleucids - Army List

Commanders

Army Commander - Talented Professional

Subordinate General 1 - Competent Professional

Subordinate General 2 - Competent Professional
Subordinate General 3 - Mediocre Professional

Camp

Camp - Poor, Flexible

TuGs

8 Guard Argyraspides - Infantry, Drilled Close, Superior, Protected, Pike, Shove

8 Phalangites - Infantry, Drilled Close, Average, Protected, Pike, Shove

6 Thracians - Infantry, Formed Loose, Average, Protected, Devastating Charger, Melee Expert

4 Companions - Cavalry, Drilled Loose, Superior, Protected, Charging Lancer, Melee Expert

4 Line Cavalry - Cavalry, Drilled Loose, Average, Protected, Charging Lancer, Melee Expert
4 Line Cavalry - Cavalry, Drilled Loose, Average, Protected, Charging Lancer, Melee Expert

SuG's

6 Tarentine Cavalry - Cavalry, Skirmisher, Average, Protected, Javelin, Experienced, Cantabrian
6 Horse Archers - Cavalry, Skirmisher, Average, Unprotected, Bow, Experienced,

9 Cretan Archers - Infantry, Skirmisher, Average, Unproteced, Bow, Skilled, Combat Shy

In the course of three days we played six battles. I am going to write usual battle reports for each one of them. This post is intended as an introduction. I will do my best to write them as fast as possible but in the meantime, here is a teaser for each battle I played.

Battle 1 - Macedonian Successors - David

Early Seleucids vs Macedonian Successors

Deployment of the Armies

Commanders

Army Commander - Talented Professional

Subordinate General 1 - Competent Professional

Subordinate General 2 - Competent Professional

Camp

Camp - Poor, Flexible

TuGs

8 Elite Phalangites - Infantry, Drilled Close, Superior, Protected, Pike, Shove

8 Phalangites - Infantry, Drilled Close, Average, Protected, Pike, Shove

6 Mercenary Hoplites - Infantry, Drilled Close, Average, Protected, Long Spear, Shove, Shield Cover

4 Xystophoroi - Cavalry, Drilled Loose, Superior, Protected, Charging Lancer, Melee Expert

4 Xystophoroi - Cavalry, Drilled Loose, Superior, Protected, Charging Lancer, Melee Expert

2 Elephants - Elephants, Tribal Loose, Average, Protected, Shove
2 Elephants - Elephants, Tribal Loose, Average, Protected, Shove

SuG's

4 Light Horse - Cavalry, Skirmisher, Average, Unrotected, Javelin, Experienced, Cantabrian
4 Light Horse - Cavalry, Skirmisher, Average, Unrotected, Javelin, Experienced, Cantabrian

6 Cretan Archers - Infantry, Skirmisher, Average, Unproteced, Bow, Skilled, Combat Shy

6 Javelinmen - Infantry, Skirmisher, Average, Unprotected, Javelin, Experienced, Combat Shy

Battle 2 - 100 Years War French - Stephen