Last week we played Romans versus the Macedonian /late Greek Mercenary armies, by the rules of "To the Strongest", 28mm at Peter‘s. Campbell and Bart proudly presented their Roman armoured proletarian raffle, while me and Peter presented our Seleucid Specialist Forces (by the courtesy of Peters magnificent miniature collection).
We had large unwieldy phalanges and both flanking cavalry and an elephant, that should count for something! While Campbell and Bart had just tough Roman Republican troops and people on horses. And a ballista (scorpio) that would count for nothing!
I don‘t know what their plan was, but it sure didn't seem to work. They seem to wait for us to come to them, which we did, which was nearly fatal for us, and also their Romans shittiest cavalry held out for a very very unbelievable long time ... just to succumb at last. On Peters side the elephant made its way and the cavalry outflanked the Romans.
In "To the Strongest" out-flanking is somewhat the beginning of the end! My classical Greeks can vouch for that (which weren‘t allowed to come out that day, probably not to demoralise the SPQR civilians too much).
So to cut their "pilae" and "iugulae" and the rest of the story short, we put an end to their sufferings by thrusting our "lancea" in their "sterna" of some more units and won by coins ("nummi"), which is what you get when you annihilate units of the opponent in those times. What a mercenary mindset - but hey thats what we came for, isn't it?
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initial set up
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our ranks
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Barts Romans
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Campbells nervous Romans
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Us Greeks coming to the enemy
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Romans climbing hills
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| Helenistic Greek Cavalry meeting Roman Horse dilletarii |
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Romans still climbing hills or forming up
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| Roman "Friends on Horses" are getting decimated |
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Romans still climbing hills
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Romans forming up around hills - they really like them!!
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Peters Cavalry at their flank
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My cavalry searching for Equestrian hobbyists of the Romans
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