{"id":563,"date":"2014-07-24T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T11:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/?p=563"},"modified":"2014-10-12T17:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T17:56:39","slug":"club-game-teutoburg-forest-9ad-11th-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/club-game-teutoburg-forest-9ad-11th-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Game – Teutoburg Forest 9AD – 11th September"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d like to propose a club game to refight the destruction of Varus and his legions in the Teutoburg Forest in 9AD. The date given for the battle is mid-September, and the date in the McNally book is actually the 11st September, so given that is a Thursday this year I suggest that this be the date.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m proposing using the more recent evidence from Mjr. T Clunn, which places the battle near modern Kalkriese.<\/p>\n

My current thought is that we fight 4 battle simultaneously reflecting the 3 phases of the battle. I\u2019ll use the Osprey titles for each phase as they seem as good as any. They all take place after Varus and his officers commit suicide<\/p>\n

An Army at bay.<\/h1>\n

Lucius Eggius harrassed by the Bructeri passing Kalkriese Berg. Followed by the subsequent ambush by Arminius and the Chercusci.<\/p>\n

A second smaller battle of the Numonius Vala and the auxiliary alae being ambushed by the German cavalry after leaving the Felsemfield (Marching camp). This will be a quite small affair, but has some cavalry so adds a bit of colour.<\/p>\n

A Desperate Situation<\/h1>\n

The Germans set up a fortification along a sandy patch that the Romans must cross. The Romans detach 6 cohorts who advance in Testudo to attack the ramparts.<\/p>\n

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Death in the Forest.<\/h1>\n

The remnants of Caeonius & Eggius try to reform and escape.<\/p>\n

To do this we would need 8 players. If I can drum up the interest I can flesh out the detail. We would need quite a lot of figures. Probably about 300 stands of Germans \u2013 but I have 100. I know Peter has a chunk and Steve most likely.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d need about half of that in Romans. But I\u2019m sure we can get that together.<\/p>\n

I propose using Hail Caeasar, to make it fast, an get a resolution in an evening.<\/p>\n

Please let me know your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d like to propose a club game to refight the destruction of Varus and his legions in the Teutoburg Forest in 9AD. The date given for the battle is mid-September, and the date in the McNally book is actually the 11st September, so given that is a Thursday this year I suggest that this be … Continue reading Club Game – Teutoburg Forest 9AD – 11th September<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancients","category-battle-of-teutoburger-wald","category-fields-of-glory-ancients-and-medievil","category-hail-ceasar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}