The battle had some interesting twists and turns and generally followed history, except that Alexander and the companions were eventually surrounded and cut down and the left flank collapsed despite Parmenion's best giving their all.
Er...so not like history at all!
Well I can explain - we gave the Persians 5 cavalry units including 2 horse arches, 2 light infantry and 4 auxiliaries. This was more than enough to undo the normal Macedonian tactics where the companions are screened and the phalanx flank protected by light cav and skirmishers. I suspect I interpretated the Macedonians as having too few hoplites in their force too. Saying that it was a close run thing and had some dice throws gong the other way Alexander would have crashed through his opponents.
So looking ahead to Issus, we'll be using 3000 foot/2000 cav to a unit and only using the army lists as a broad basis but until then, here are some piccies.....
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