Pyrrhic Campaign - Turn Three Part One

For the previous Turns and background information please see these posts for Turn One and Two:

https://onesidedminiaturewargamingdiscourse.blogspot.com/2024/04/pyrrhic-campaign-turn-one.html

https://onesidedminiaturewargamingdiscourse.blogspot.com/2024/07/pyrrhic-campaign-turn-two.html

Turn Three sees the Romans reach funding parity with Pyrrhus.  This allowed them to field two standard armies using a Basic Impetus 2.0 adaption.  

The Romans moved first and Consol Uno took his army down the cost and struck at the Greeks at Paistos.  They gave battle.

It was a tricky affair.  The Greeks had won the scouting and had a plan.  The Romans just struck for the Greek centre hoping to destroy it before the Greeks could close on their flanks.  It worked.

The Greek army retreated to Heraclea while the Romans attempted some diplomacy with Paistos becoming neutral.

Pyrrhus and the main Greek army started to move, coming down to Heraclea.

The Carthaginian army moved to besiege Syracuse.

Then Pyrrhus struck at the Romans at Paistos.  The confident Romans gave battle.

To some extent it was a repeat of the first battle, but this time the Greek cavalry deployed on their left wing and wiped out the Roman cavalry.  The Romans took out the centre, but their wings collapsed resulting in a Pyrrhic victory for Pyrrhus who has now lost all his Greek pikemen.

That was as much as we had time for in that session.

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