Post by jim1973 on Dec 17, 2022 1:29:36 GMT
Here's an ahistorical battle between Brasidas and Agesileus using all the exotic troops each list offers. Here's the setup:
Brasidas is defending and as both armies are littoral, refuses his flank near the waterway rather than using a naval force, because clearly local knowledge of the coast is useless! (I dislike the naval landing rules very much!). His Thracian peltasts infest the marshlands. Agesileus plans to land his Paplagonians forward to take care of the Thracians with the support of his Mysians before the hoplites and cavalry meet. However, his phalanx is delayed by bad omens (PIP 1) leaving his Paphlagonians dangerously exposed with only the Mysians able to advance. Brasidas seizes the opportunity and splits his phalanx to crush the light troops.
After a scrambled melee in and around the marshes, with many an underdog prevailing against overwhelming odds, Brasidas fails to destroy the Paphlagonians and they eventually win the marshes against the Thracians but with losses (two elements Ax v three elements Ps). Now Brasidas is in danger as the King has arrived.
But the brilliant general scrambles and his remaining Thracians delay the phalanx protecting his flank until the rest of the hoplites arrive. However, Brasidas is distracted himself by some Mysian psiloi and the King's phalanx seems to be grinding away to a victory. Brasidas mutters a prayer to Zeus and the Father of the Gods obliges by scattering the Ionian cavalry, thus isolating the end of the King's phalanx, which is destroyed (some extreme dice rolling here). The king himself is in peril!
The battle is lost as the King retreats from the field!
Brasidas is defending and as both armies are littoral, refuses his flank near the waterway rather than using a naval force, because clearly local knowledge of the coast is useless! (I dislike the naval landing rules very much!). His Thracian peltasts infest the marshlands. Agesileus plans to land his Paplagonians forward to take care of the Thracians with the support of his Mysians before the hoplites and cavalry meet. However, his phalanx is delayed by bad omens (PIP 1) leaving his Paphlagonians dangerously exposed with only the Mysians able to advance. Brasidas seizes the opportunity and splits his phalanx to crush the light troops.
After a scrambled melee in and around the marshes, with many an underdog prevailing against overwhelming odds, Brasidas fails to destroy the Paphlagonians and they eventually win the marshes against the Thracians but with losses (two elements Ax v three elements Ps). Now Brasidas is in danger as the King has arrived.
But the brilliant general scrambles and his remaining Thracians delay the phalanx protecting his flank until the rest of the hoplites arrive. However, Brasidas is distracted himself by some Mysian psiloi and the King's phalanx seems to be grinding away to a victory. Brasidas mutters a prayer to Zeus and the Father of the Gods obliges by scattering the Ionian cavalry, thus isolating the end of the King's phalanx, which is destroyed (some extreme dice rolling here). The king himself is in peril!
The battle is lost as the King retreats from the field!
