Greece and Persia are finally at it. There are a lot of barbarians invading Greece (plus those Theban traitors!).

Ai! A few lucky shooting rolls, some weak reactions, and the Athenian left is routing! Spartans going head-to-head with Persian heavy horse in the centre, with no losses on either side yet.

Ouch. NOTHING worked!

Any chance of a photo or two as this is one of my favourite periods to game in?

I'm eating dinner; pix after that. Promise.

From the sound of that the Greeks are going to be way to busy dying to get any photos taken!

Pix, taken by the Persian commander. Here we see both armies marching onto the field (this wasn't a literal refight; no quarrels in Greek high command). Sorry it's skew.

Here the barbarian EHC should successfully be seeking annihilation from Spartans led by a king. You'd think.

The chariots charged through the Greek peltasts three times; by the rules they should have taken an average of 3.5 casualties to javelin fire en route. As it was, not a prick.

Plateans and Corinthians repel but fail to break some Immortals.

Thebans weren't deployed properly, and the Argives threw them back, but again without breaking them.

My right flank got tangled up. Thracians and Athenians beat off Medes and Saka rather effectively, but Cretans broke under Arab onslaught.

Blameless Ethiopians guarding the Persian camp.

All very nice sir

The wife is rather pleased with herself anyway.