In this week’s game a Antigonid army based on a Macedonian pike phalanx with Companion cavalry, Greek cavalry and peltasts is set to fight a Seleucid army with a Levy phalanx supported by Mercenary and Eastern troops including an allied Parthian command.

The Seleucid army advances forward. The Persian horse and mercenary cavalry moves round the cultivated area and charges the opposing Companion cavalry (a deep double strength unit) and supporting mercenary horse initially push them back. However, after several turns they gain the upper hand, forcing back and routing their opponents and with the their supporting peltasts manage to hold off the Seleucid cavalry.

In the centre, the Macedonian phalanx advances with a screen of light infantry javelins who are beaten back by the Seleucid slingers, allowing the scythed chariots to hit home against the Macedonian phalanx. However, the Macedonians hold firm and the chariots are beaten off, leaving the slingers to slow down the Macedonian advance. Eventually the two phalanxes clash. The Seleucid levees are slowly pushed back helped by a hoplite unit hitting the silver shields. The Seleucid Commander in Chief is hit twice while encouraging his men to further efforts. But eventually the levy phalanx falls apart, before the Parthian armoured cavalry can move up in support.

On the right flank the Parthian allied commander, with support from a unit of elephants, attacks their opposition, the horse archers falling back and firing their bows from a charge of Greek cavalry. The armoured cavalry then charge through their skirmishers and push the Greek cavalry back, eventually forcing them to retire.

The remaining Greek cavalry charge the supporting elephant forcing it to retire and  causing a unit of Parthian horse archers to recoil also. The supporting peltasts move over the hill throwing javelins at the Seleucid mercenary hoplites and forcing them to retire shaken. The Greek cavalry then charge the shaken hoplites, forcing them back but then the hoplites rally and force the Greek cavalry to retire. At the end of the game the Greek cavalry were formed to the flank to prevent the rallied Parthian armoured cavalry from attacking the flank of the phalanx.

In the end a convincing win for the Macedonians.