Galatians versus Early Seleucids Mortem et Gloriam Game

 

Armies deployed from the Galatian side

From the Early Seleucid side

Armies close - there's no room for manoeuvring!

Galatian warriors are impetuous and charge

I'm not really a comp player but have entered a 28mm MeG Pacto Classical competition that is part of the 3rd Con event being held here in Canberra in March. Hopefully it will be fun and a good opportunity to meet other MeG players and improve my knowledge of the rules. This afternoon Garry came over to play a practice game with his Early Seleucids taking on my Galatians. After the Pre Battle System for terrain and deployment, I was the attacker on a flat plain with a marsh but out scouted by 40%, so had to deploy that amount of my army first. We used 80mm base widths for the game (60mm is the 28mm standard for MeG) but kept the 4'x3' table size and 30mm halved base widths for the Pacto version. 

The table was pretty congested, there was no room for manoeuvring, the Galatian warriors are all impetuous and charged the Seleucid pike and elephants. On the Galatian right flank the chariots and cavalry kept the Seleucid Companions and line cavalry occupied for a number of turns before eventually breaking the line cavalry. In the centre it was a slogging match with Seleucid pike and ellies. The Galatian warriors had them under pressure after a few turns with some lucky dice rolling. In the end the Seleucids broke handing the Galatians a 15-6 victory. I played a solo game last year with same armies and the result was a 15-4 for the Seleucids, so I'm not reading too much in to the result, luck always plays a fair part.

I've just painted this Wargames Factory chariot and these Eureka Miniatures Paphlagonian infantry for my Galatians (see photos below). I have some javelinmen that I used in the game as well but they're not quite finished yet.

Slogging match commences

The Seleucid Pike are under pressure

Seleucids break 15-6 victory for the Galatians

Galatian chariot

Paphlagonian infantry