The Ballad of Bradicles
Turn 2, A cloud of dust
Hero shot as the Macedonians surge forward. 
As anticipated, the Numidian cavalry makes a wide sweep to threaten my flanks. The pikemen and slingers will have to deal with this. 
The initially cramped deployment zone left the slingers somewhat sandwiched in between some units. I’ll have to carefully plan their activation to get the most benefit from them. 
The Pezhetairoi with javelins should be a good match against the Numidian javelin men with a better melee skill and some armor. They’re going to grab that palm grove in the center and to the left. 
Final position end of turn 2. The Numidian cavalry swung wide, lobbed a few javelins and retired. The Numidian javelin men occupy the left hand palm grive and the Carthaginian Hoplites hold one objective. There was very little guile with this Malchus. But it didn’t matter, his moves were effective. Bradicles could tell where the Numidian cavalry was by the clouds of dust it created even though they put a building between them and his slingers. Seeing this, Mediocrates reoriented the pikemen and urged the slingers forward. Good, Bradicles thought , he’s anticipating what’s about to happen. The Numidians then appear, trot forward and throw a few javelins before retiring. A few land but the pikemen stay in formation.
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