The battlefield was a simple flat plain. Both armies camps were off table and the stream that ran between them followed the long edge of the roman side of the table. The roman and latin velites crossed that to take on some lights grafted to Pyrrhus's army (since they are missing from the lists, despite being present!).
As expected the more numerous velites drove back the cretans and peltasts and allowed the Legions to cross unhindered. I deployed my phalanx (4 units) and italian allies (2) on the table as they crossed, then as that line advanced to meet them, deployed my cavalry, heavies to the left, trantines to the right, next to my elephants.
The battle was evenly matched for a while with the legion and phalanx trading blows and the Italian allies holding their own, despite having lighter equipment (again no logic for this in the list, surely they'd have either legionary or greek equivalent gear - the author of the list also described them as auxiliaries, rather than heavy foot, again different from their Italian brethren).
On the left flank there was a stalemate as the epirot cavalry was held in place by the Romans. However on the right the tarantine and elephants destroyed the opposing latin cav, remaining lights and turned to take on the triarii.
By this point however the second line support of the legion formation had started to tell and the Italian ally foot, then the first of the phalanx units crumbled. Both ends of Pyrrhus's center were being rolled up.
Back on the left the troublesome roman cav was eliminated and Pyhrrus and his men circled onto the rear of the romans. It was now a case of who would destroy the other first.
So we stopped!
After all both sides went on to fight again....
A good game, completely different in feel from our Roman vs Barbarian campaign. My opponent is off to make up some anti-elephant carts and I'm off to paint and assemble a third such beast.
2 comments:
...and flaming pigs!
Oh I have that in hand, just finish your carts!
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