Romans and Seleucids.

 I had myself another game of ancients with the rules in Neil Thomas' Introduction to Wargaming book.

I have made the elephants less effective against infantry (six dice as opposed to eight) and especially light infantry (only four dice instead of eight) so we'll see how it goes.

Here we are getting stuck in...

The Romans beat off the Cataphracts.

The white tunic Velites are taking on the elephant and score two out of it's four hits.

But then they break, oh well, nice try!.

The green shield Romans suddenly break!.

The Romans are beating this phalanx though.

There is some jockeying for position.

The Roman cavalry finally break.

The Triarii see off the Phalangites.

The Companions and Agema crash into the Roman infantry.

The left flank Phalangites are just hanging on.

The Triarii hang on as the Velites arrive to help.

The Seleucid elites are now getting the better of the Roman infantry.

The Green tunic Velites flank the elephant and it flees straight back missing everyone before it dies.

The elite Seleucid cavalry eventually rout the Romans.

The Companions and Agema then flank the Velites but only score a measly two hits!.

The Seleucid archers come down from the hill to threaten the Roman flank. They never hit a thing with their arrows and watched the battle from the sidelines but did their bit just by surviving.

The Velites are not so fortunate this time and are scattered to the four winds.

The Romans are down to two units now and the Seleucids win the battle.

Another very entertaining battle, I have been tweaking other parts of the rules, introducing Peltasts as a troop type and mucking about with the combat dice table. I am looking forward to seeing Neil Thomas' full rules when they arrive.