A totally fictional refight of the Battle of Delium, but just with the Spartans and a nice wall to protect the temple of Apollo - because we had them. 28mm, Hail Caesar, my miniatures (Warlord Games or Victrix).
Bart, John and Alisdair fought for the Peloponnesian League, While me, Tim and Gordon fought for the Delian Empire ... errm Athenians. The Spartans had the first move, divided their units the king to block the left and the rest to stop us from flanking them. I had a division just made out of skirmishers and I would harass them just after I would have destroyed their pesky few helots and men on horses...
BUT Bart killed my skirmishers with charging my peltats ... and basically swiped them all away in one or two turns. Yes, this was the first game ever, where I could leave the field not doing anything (I switched to umpire).
So then the Spartans turned the tide and swept around our flank and Alisdairs phalanges attacked us but came too short ... so we attacked and destroyed them, now that was a piece of luck as that was actually what was winning the battle (we would count the units costs points). So Congratulation, Gordon! Your division broke the Peloponnesian neck!
In the meantime Tim did the best taktic and kept his best, but still inferior Athenian elites out of trouble and pestered and harassed the two Spartan units - successfully with peltasts to the point where only one was not shaken!
And in the end our 5 units charged the 2 of the Spartans for the endfight. We didn't break them, but we got them shaken and or nearly so, they would not survived another round. BUT we didn't killed them.
John ( the king of Sparta and CinC of the line) was so gallant to accept the defeat - a truly new era was ushered in. So again Congratulations Gordon and Tim, Especially for the absolute right taktic that was the only successful one vs the Spartans. A Delian victory!
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| The initial set up ... |
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| Barts light flank ... |
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| Our Athenian centre ... |
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| A posh overprotected Apollo temple ... |
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| The Spartans split and came down hill ... |
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| Gordons centre forms up to meet them ... |
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| It could get ugly quite quickly ... |
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| The left the hills like in history ... |
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| And charged my skimishers ... |
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| While the Spartan King waited ... |
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| Unfortunately thats were my light division was deleted ... |
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| Our centre was with an open flank ... |
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| But Tim just continued to harassing the Spartans ... |
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| Meanwhile Gordon destroyed Alisdairs division ... |
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| Gordon formed up again to meet the threat ... |
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| And then retreated to the rest ... |
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| The Plan was to concentrate and to attack ... |
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| Before the Spartan King would be coming with the rest of his army ... |
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| And coming our way he was ... |
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| But the other unit was getting shaken ... |
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| And the Athenians all clogged up ... |
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| Until they formed line ... |
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| While being in phalanx ... (scenario rule) |
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| Time to strike ... |
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| But Time didn't made the order successfully ... |
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| Valuable time for the king ... |
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| Athenians dither ... |
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| But then finally clash ... |
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| Two units got thoroughly thrashed ... end of game. |
