The Battle of Megara 25th May 432 BC, Sparta vs Athens........

..........or don't upset the Oracle or trust Ray in a wargame!

"As normal in Ancient Greece peace never lasted long, Sparta has accused Athens of breaking the thirty years peace pact that had been agreed in 445BC. Both sides have gathered their forces with various allies looking for glory and plunder, both armies have met just outside the town of Megara on the Corinthian peninsula.
                                                                 The Game

Both sides can deploy up to a maximum of 20 inches on to the board and you will be allowed only 10 minutes to deploy and discuss tactics. No fart arsing about please you have been warned.

The Oracle will be consulted before battle!"

Kind words supplied and read out by Postie before the game started!
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Contractual "Zeus" Picture...........

Six Rejects (Myself, Ray, John, Surjit, Dave and Richard) turned up on Sunday for an Ancient Greek game between Sparta and Athens, names were drawn out.......

Richard: Spartan
Me: Boeotian
Dave: Tegean/Corinthian

vs

John: Athenian
Surjit: Phocian
Ray: Theban

There were some Postie shenanigans before the start of the game, you had to roll for the quality of your general, I was lucky and got a brilliant one, some others weren't so lucky, we also had to roll two dice to see if the "Oracle" favoured us...........we were mostly lucky except for Ray who upset his "Oracle" and had to remain still for the first two turns of the game:D

The other side or the Athenian rebels.......

Ray upset the Oracle, how we laughed.......

All about the Phalanxes, we had 10 to their 11 but 3 of ours are Spartan........

We started to move forward but the Athenians remained firm............

We gave all our skirmish troops to Dave on our left flank........

A picture of Ray not moving...........

Ever forward, ever forward, six inches at a time, bloody Athenians......

Dave was also doing some grading work by this stage waiting on Ray.........

The Spartans...........

These are killing machines if you let them get close, they threw 10 dice in close combat and got 10 kills.......

The action on the left flank starts to hot up with skirmishers skirmishing with each other.....

Life could be over quite quickly...........

Nice piece of scratch built terrain by Postie.......

Light cavalry clash, this would continue back and forth for several turns until Rays luck ran out......

Ever forward, ever forward......

Aerial shot........

Any moment now.........

Finally..........

What happened next was a little one sided with some outrageous dice rolling on our side with a 70%+ kill rate and a 100% rate from the Spartans for nearly two turns, there were some small setbacks but not enough.........

This picture summed up what the Athenians thought of our dice rolling.......

One of the Spartan phalanxes in trouble and would retire but not destroyed......

Things were starting to get a little confusing.......

More charges but we remained lucky with the dice.......

I show this just to show a triple disordered unit..............

The game was called at this point due to Ray withdrawing his troops from the Athenian army and then joining the Spartan army, his colleagues were not impressed, how we laughed.......

Dave won man of the match for gaining the most personal points throughout the game.......

Ray, now on the winning side takes some pictures as he gloats over his former comrades.......

Good game, over by three( it would have been two if Ray had had his way or the Athenians had moved forwar), still we gathered for tea and cake and had a chat among the boys.......... 

The rules used were Posties "Let the Gods decide", the bloody dice Gods maybe..............