Dux Bellorum 3 battle at the ford AAR

With  most of  2 armies painted for Dux Bellorum,  it seemed like a good idea to have a go at a game.  We set up battle at the ford ( one of the scenarios from the rulebook) we placed a river, a road ( to indicate where the ford was) some bog and a load of trees. Everything is measured in base widths so as I have used impetus sabot bases its 120mm.
The Irish army didn't have as many units as the Saxons so they had various add ons to bring them up, the Saxons were also a little short ,in the end the Saxons had a unit of nobles who were veterans, the Irish had that, a stampede and an extra leadership point per go.
I let Des chose which army he wanted, (he went Saxon as he was standing next to them) and we set up and got going ,both armies were made up of warriors, there are different unit types, warrior ,shieldwall, skirmisher and  various mounted types.
To start with we had no real idea what we were doing  so I took my leader and companions across the river followed by the rest of the Irish force( I'd rolled and ended up being the aggressor so Iwent first). Des (as the repellor) responded with his troops and we were in action rapidly, slightly hemmed in by terrain, not having given my leader and companions enough leadership points  they rapidly went down in cohesion points and we ended  up slugging it out as Stew pointed out we might do!  Eventually I managed to grind him down, as he lost units he lost leadership points which he then needed more and more which I thought was a good way of simulating gradual lack of overall cohesion of a force taking casualties.

  There are optinal rules to limit the amount of leadership points you can use for defence which I think are probably worth doing and I want to paint up some other unit types, shieldwall, skirmishers and the different mounted types, we both enjoyed it and Des has gone off to build his own army so I think we can call the game a success at least in the short term!
All the best
Iain