S-Day Tomorrow

I have managed to get the Seleucid Army to the point where I can get it on to the field of battle, about a month ahead of my schedule. I still have a lot of troops to add, another phalanx, Companions, cataphracts, Thracians, chariots, one more elephant along with elephant escorts and the Galatian warband (another week will see these chaps ready). After this I have some odd phalangites to paint up in order to increase the number of men in the phalanxes if required for larger games, and perhaps experience on the battlefield may require my flank troops, Thorakiti, Theurophori etc. to need upping to twenty men from sixteen, time will tell. Oh, and I have yet to get my army general.

Anyway I have decided to fight with them tomorrow, this army is quite unlike all my other armies in that it has a smaller number of large infantry formations as a core and a lot more ancillary troops, the correct use of these is important as their job is to keep the enemy at bay while the phalanx wins the day. I feel these troops are a bit on the light side at the moment although some are very well armed with javelins, thrusting spears and shields, more than a match for enemy light troops in the right circumstances. The army of course is allowed elephants, something I have never used before and which I have beaten or neutralised on nearly every occasion I have fought them, which may not bode well for my elephant.

I shall be fighting Kevin's victorious Carthaginians, flush from last weeks victory over the Twelfth, the boys wanted revenge but they will have to wait. This battle should be interesting, Kevin will be on the wrong side of a phalanx for the first time and I shall have to be on my game to win.