Mark Woods, using his fabulous 6mm collection of Romans and Macedonians, created army lists to allow a big battle using Basic Impetus 2.0 (note: not so much the Great Battles option in those rules, just a really big Basic game).
Mark and Michael were the Romans (left and right respectively) while Karl and I were the Greeks (right and left).
It is also nice to have some historical context to game (which is most missing in my Ancients games). In 191 BC, Roman forces led by Manius Acilius Glabrio defeated Antiochus III the Great and forced him to leave Greece
This was my force.
It consisted of:
- Six units of Agrianians
- Two units of Illyrians
- Four units of Thracians
- Three units of cavalry and
- Three large units of Phalangites
With games of this size, capturing everything in one image is a challenge,
but here is the deployment.
Greek infantry are holding a hill in the centre.
The first couple of moves I spent shuffling my cavalry to the left to avoid the elephants.
Checking distance till contact.
It took a while.
Little legs after all.
The elephants.
Things got off to a good start with the rout of the Roman light cavalry.
On the right the Greek cavalry didn't do so well.
The skirmishers really earned their pay.
Things have started to happen, and the results are somewhat mixed.
The wheeling Roman unit on the right-hand side of the image will win them the game.
The right wing's right flank has been compromised.
The Macedonian pike armed infantry are hard at work,
the Galatians however lacked staying power.
At this stage I was quietly confident...
The Roman left is starting to collapse.
But it also rapidly went pear-shaped on the Greek left.
The Greek right fell apart as well after a flank charge on a pike block
by the previously identified Roman unit.
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