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Heraclea 280 B.C.
11 January 2011 22:29Another blog post for a snowy evening, this time it's a gaming session report. The game is Ancients, a quick 2 player wargame featuring battles of antiquity. My opponent is ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
auror. The battle is the Battle of Heraclea.
To give some background, this is the first battle in the Pyrrhic War. Rome was still a young Republic in the process of consolidating Italy. King Pyrrhus of Epirus came to the end of the Greek cities in southern Italy being threatened by Rome. Pyrrhus amassed a large army, including elephants from Egypt and after crossing to Italy set up camp behind the river Siris and waited for the Romans. When the Roman army crossed the river he attacked. It would be the first battle between Greek and Roman forces and the first time Romans encountered elephants. Historically Pyrrhus won the battle but with heavy casualties, a typically Pyrrhic victory.
I was hoping for a climatic stuggle in which the victor is in doubt until the last moment, instead I was handed one of my quickest defeats ever.
( Read on to get the gory details )
auror. The battle is the Battle of Heraclea. To give some background, this is the first battle in the Pyrrhic War. Rome was still a young Republic in the process of consolidating Italy. King Pyrrhus of Epirus came to the end of the Greek cities in southern Italy being threatened by Rome. Pyrrhus amassed a large army, including elephants from Egypt and after crossing to Italy set up camp behind the river Siris and waited for the Romans. When the Roman army crossed the river he attacked. It would be the first battle between Greek and Roman forces and the first time Romans encountered elephants. Historically Pyrrhus won the battle but with heavy casualties, a typically Pyrrhic victory.
I was hoping for a climatic stuggle in which the victor is in doubt until the last moment, instead I was handed one of my quickest defeats ever.
( Read on to get the gory details )