Thinking of starting Successors

[Westbury]

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[Westbury]

As the cavalry struggles wound down the infantry masses trundled forward.
The Ptolemaics got the initiative at the crucial point and launched their line forward except that several units failed to charge 
3 units failed to charge and a potential disaster was facing Ptolemy as the initiative passed to the other side who experienced a similar failure with 2 of their units.
There then followed a scampering of leaders as they attached themselves to reluctant units and eventually everyone who could get in was in.
From a rules perspective I was initially a bit concerned but within another turn all was as I envisaged which was a more staggered set of fights rather than one long solid mass.
 

[Westbury]

As the push of pike settled down, the left wing satrap elephant got spooked from javelin fire and stampeded through it's own skirmishers and across the ground separating the pike lines to wind up in front of the Ptolemaic guard who charged in and cut it/them down.

[Westbury]

The battle of the pikes finally resolved itself decisively in favour of the Ptolemaic's; both the opposing hoplite units routed and 2 of the pikes, one of which was being encouraged by the army general (Peithon) who fell gloriously 
This was the decisive point, regardless of cavalry success, the scale losses on the routing units varied between 12 and 30% with no hope of rallying with their general dead. The remaining pikes straightened their weapons and swapped sides.

[Westbury]

Overall the game played well. It looked good and the mechanisms worked. I'm sure we'll do a bit of tinkering around the edges with both the rules and the collection - cataphract cavalry and scythed chariots have been discussed  but we're done and so now can look forward to doing different iterations to see how they play out - Galatians, Thracians, etc.
As a side bar note, the other elephant eventually got shot down by the Cretans and the Thracians did nothing 

[Pattus Magnus]

That looked glorious! So many beautifully painted figures beating the crap out of each other! It sounds like the game was fun and generated a number of unexpected events, while producing a plausible outcome. I’m looking forward to more battle reports and hearing about the rules as you develop them.

[Westbury]

Camps completed, ready for rallying and looting

[Zingara]

Ian - good looking bases - is that it for camps or will there be another 2 bases ?

[Easy E]

Very lived in and evocative.

[Westbury]

Gregor. Two camps of two bases each, so in theory if we did a game of multiple armies a side like Ipsus we could have a base per army. It's a dream.

[Westbury]

Refought the Battle of Paraitacene recently which took up virtually the whole collection which was nice and served as a dry run for Partizan in May.
I wont do a report just a selection of shots.

[Westbury]

Early action

[Westbury]

Later action

[Westbury]

No elephants were harmed during the making of this post 

[Digits]

Must just be taking a nap then. 😏

Looking pretty cool Ian!