Allied 6th Italian Line

 Got my Allied Italian banners on before the last game

Somewhere in Spain: El Pequeño Cuerno Grande

So going into this one, the intent was clear—this was supposed to play out like the Battle of the Little Bighorn. You had your split forces, aggressive cavalry and infantry,  “this might go horribly wrong” 

Naturally… everyone completely ignored that and did their own thing 😂

Flaming Pigs

Ancient sources record the use of pigs as weapons against war elephants. Greek writers such as Polyaenus and Aelianus Tacticus describe how, during the siege of Megara in 266 BC, defenders drove flaming, squealing pigs toward the elephants of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas, sending them into panic.

 

The tactic proved effective enough that later commanders trained elephants alongside swine to blunt their fear, a weakness noted by Roman and Byzantine authors from the wars against Pyrrhus to the defense of Edessa centuries later.

Phalanx Meets East

 Macedonian and Persian battle lines are starting to deploy. 

Elephant casualty marker

 By Resin Warfare with Foundry Macedonians

The Silver Shields

 Elite light hypaspists. I know they didn’t get their silver shields till later, but wanted them to be easily identifiable.

Simmias’ Battalion

Taxis Coenus complete

 2 down, 4 to go.