“The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.”
― Carl von Clausewitz

And so it was, I had worked out the perfect game scenario, written the briefings, prepared the table and the figures and then everything went awry. First one of the protagonists couldn’t make it and then our married son left the place in chaos whilst leaving to move into a house of his own (pleased about that……. no REALLY pleased about that!!!!).

Did I mention that I was really please to finally be an “empty nester”. Ahh waht to do with those two spare bedrooms?

So a quick change of venue (thanks Andrew) and grabbing the army that I still had not unpacked from last weeks game and we were on our way.

Another game of LADLG this time my Classical Indians taking on Andrew’s Conquest Arabs. Right from the start the auguries were favouring Porus. When I rolled bad dice Andrew rolled even worse, and when I rolled well Andrew still rolled poorly. The Indian intial shooting proved deadly and combat dice were even better.

The Indian right flank moving forward to take the hill.

The Arab centre

The Arab right just before crunch time.

The Indian right just before the Arab collapse

The fight in the centre – note the damage markers on the Arab units!!!

Indian nobility do what they were born for.

The end is nigh!!

The Arabs under pressure all along the line.

Note that in the photo above there are only four green markers (one step loss) and one yellow marker (two step loss) on the Indian side. This means there were only six occasions where the Arab dice bettered the Indians for the whole game!!!

The final break through.

What can I say, wasn’t Napoleon heard saying,  “give me a lucky general over a good one any day”?

Maybe this isn’t such a bad system after all.