Last night, David very kindly invited me round for a game, so he could test out his hoplite Greeks. Seven units of Greek spears, one of which was superior, Thracians, cavalry, Cretan archers, Javelinmen. Tasty! There is quite a void in my army lists between 650BCE(Siatics) and Mid Republican Roman (c100BCE), I really do not have anything in that timescale, so I had to be creative. My list, cobbled together from Si's rebases , my Siatics , Mid Republican Romans and Dacian s (pretending to be Thracians and Illyrians). Maybe I should get a contemporary army one year? I held no great hope for this list, and I'm not the world's greatest fan of pike, so let's see how we do? The terrain, very dense mountains, sensibly David chose lots of open terrain, and had a perfect sector to hold with this spearmen in the middle of his line, secured by bad going; as did I. I managed to outscout him by 50% (not bad on two cards) and I was attacking. Deployment was two straight lines, ...