At the request of our group member Steven, we did a demo at the weekly wargame evening of the TSA or TSOA club of Antwerp.
Steven did ask for an ancients battle with Romans and Macedons.
My choice was to redo the Pydna 168BC battle, which we presented at Crisis 2012 : https://youtu.be/JgtzVXCGLTg
The Romans advanced to the banks of the Elpeus river to have a good defensive position.
The first real actions came from the flanks, the Roman cavalry on the Roman right, crossed the river and clashed with their Macedon counterparts and a falanx. The Macedons came out victorious and the falaxes of the Macedon left started to cross the river. They where charged by the elephants, one Macedon unit in big trouble and almost broke, but the general took the risk to support the unit and was able to restore order. The situation stabelized.
On the other flank, the Gaul allies of Rome started to fight the Macedon light infantry and Thracians. The Macedon heavy cavalry had to rescue the situation, and units were broken on both sides. The Roman cavalry , also moved forward to stop the Macedon cavalry to cross the river.
Here also the situation stabelized
Then it was to the centre, the falaxes against the Roman veteran legions.
One or two falaxes were able to get a foothold on the other bank, against the medium hastatii, but were not able to push the principes aside.
Where needed, the triari came to help.
With no desisive result in view, and the late hour, we called it a draw.
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