Battle of Platea

[petercooman]

Very nice pics!

Really like your spartans!

[FierceKitty]

I'll like 'em more if they deliver the bacon at the rematch.

[petercooman]

I'll like 'em more if they deliver the bacon at the rematch.

Bacon? are they bringing fire pigs next time?

[Bodvoc]

Thanks for the photo's, that looks like a great game on a very big table.

[FierceKitty]

Right. This evening, for one night only: The Revenge of the Greeks!

[FierceKitty]

Persians have just smashed the Greeks a second time. How DOES one guard the flanks of a heavy infantry army against a cavalry horde?

[petercooman]

Persians have just smashed the Greeks a second time. How DOES one guard the flanks of a heavy infantry army against a cavalry horde?

Well,broken ground is best for that.

[FierceKitty]

Would have been useful. Alas, they got an almost featureless plain today.

[FierceKitty]

(From a tombstone on the battlefield)

    If thou'rt at Lacedaemon, pause and say
   Forgetful of their laws, we ran away.

[Ithoriel]

Poetry? From Spartans? Shouldn't it be something pithy like the message sent after Cyzicus:

"Ships gone. Mindarus dead. Men starving. What next?"

[petercooman]

Would have been useful. Alas, they got an almost featureless plain today.

Hug the table edge and reinforce your open flank?

[FierceKitty]

The rules involve some weighty penalties to discourage using the edges as terrain.
I was parodying a Spartan verse which actually IS on a tombstone at Thermopylae. The Spartans weren't really what Athenian historians try to make them.

[Ithoriel]

The rules involve some weighty penalties to discourage using the edges as terrain.
I was parodying a Spartan verse which actually IS on a tombstone at Thermopylae. The Spartans weren't really what Athenian historians try to make them.

I recognised the parody of Simonides, my point was that Simonides was not a Spartan and Lacadaemonian communications were noted for being more .... laconic

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Least you are getting the morally correct result.

IanS

[petercooman]

The rules involve some weighty penalties to discourage using the edges as terrain.

Make your battle line less wide and keep some units in reserve to flank charge the flanking cavalry?