Across The Danube - Turn V

Situation after four turns

The start-of-turn-event die lands as a 4, which gives me the option of moving any unengaged unit that is in command range, except for cavalry and the commander himself. I take advantage of this to move the rearward legionaries so they become engaged with the remaining Dacian cavalry, adding to the unequal numbers in that ongoing melee.

I again leave my archers on the small hill.

The rearward Dacian archers also stay still, but the forward unit advances diagonally right, into trees beside a swordsman unit.

I move the commander into the clump of trees beside the Danube, and I leave the unengaged Roman cavalry where they are.

The Dacian cavalry cannot move as they are engaged in combat, but all three units of swordsmen advance, which takes one into a hex adjacent to my furthest-forward legionaries.

I pull my unengaged legionaries back leftwards, so they are out of range of the advancing Dacian archers, but still able to give support to the legionaries that have just been contacted by swordsmen.

The falxmen, having earlier shown an apparent reluctance to get too close to the front lines, all advance.

My spearmen leave the hill, so as to make contact with the Dacian cavalry, who are now nearly surrounded.

Finally, the warriors continue their advance by moving down from the hill on which they have spent the whole battle.

The Dacians seem to have coordinated a rush