It's time for some humility, so it's all about a DBA match against Mr. Andrea.
This time we played Carthaginians against Romans. As so often before, it started quite well for me - or rather the Carthaginians - and I had high numbers when rolling the dice. So I could at least get my army into a battle formation between forest and hills.
The crucial mistake was the position of my elephant, which I should have brought further to the right to avoid having it facing the forest and the Roman psiloi.
When both armies collided, I was not so lucky with the dice and Mr. Andrea had the better overview.
At least my Gauls held the left flank and stood stable on the hill. However, my heavy infantry in the center wavered when attacking the Roman legionnaires.
One more time I put the Roman general in trouble with a flank change of my light cavalry on the right flank.
But when it came to turning the tide I rolled only ones. But it was really exciting. All the lines broke and it was a collection of noisy battles of individual units on the battlefield.
Bloody Zama: The Carthaginians lost 4-0.
But it was, as always, a nice evening among gentlemen. Maybe it will work better next time...