Seleucus, Antigonus and Charioteer

 

Above is a guest post by Garry of two Successor command stands he has just painted. The first is of Seleucus, a Relic figure with an Essex officer and Aventine standard bearer. The second is Antigonus, a Relic figure with a Relic shield bearer and Aventine figures for the rest. The banners are by LBM with some VVV stars.

This week I received my copy of the new GMT Games, Roman chariot racing game, Charioteer, see photo below. This looks interesting, I've read the rules, they're only eleven pages, not overly complex but use a  mixture of cards and tokens to race the chariots. The game comes with six plastic counters for chariots  but I will use the Steve Barber quadrigae I've been painting for Circus Maximus. Hopefully I will get to try this out soon. 

Battle of Paraitacene 317 BC - Command and Colors Ancients

Eumenes' army on the left, Antigonus' on the right

Opposite end of the table

Light infantry get stuck in the centre

Antigonus' right flank

Antigonus' left flank

Last Wednesday night Rick, Simon, Phil and I met down at the Vikings Club for a game of Command and Colors Ancients (CCA). The scenario was the Battle of Paraitacene with Antigonus taking on Eumenes. Rick and Phil commanded Antigonus' forces while Simon and I commanded those of Eumenes. We played a CCA game of the Battle of Gabiene a few years ago at Little Wars which was a lot of fun, so it was good to play this battle which took place one year earlier in 317 BC, between the same armies.

Antigonus got off to a good start by despatching all of Eumenes' elephants. However a combination of poor cards and dice saw his attack falter and he was unable to capitalise on his cavalry advantage on his right flank. Eumenes responded by cleaning up Peithon's light cavalry and Antigonus's light infantry and pike in the centre. In the end it was a comprehensive victory for Eumenes with seven to three victory banners.

Eumenes' right flank

Eumenes' left flank

Fighting in the centre

Light infantry keep it up

Eumenes cleans up the the right flank and centre