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Saturday, June 16, 2018

Hoplite Battles

Here is a list of the troop numbers needed to refight the hoplite battle scenarios in Phil Sabin's Lost Battles rules.

Key: V denotes veteran quality, A Average, L Levy. (IL) is an inspired leader, (AL) is an average leader, (UL) is an uninspired leader.

Delium 424BC (Thebans / Athenians)
Hoplites
Heavy Infantry
Light Infantry
Heavy Cavalry
14A (AL)

1A, 
1L
4A
14A (UL)


3A


1st Mantinea 418BC (Argives / Spartans)
Hoplites
Heavy Infantry
Light Infantry
Heavy Cavalry
3V, 12A


1A
8V (UL), 
8A
1A

1L

Nemea 394BC (Allies / Spartans)
Hoplites
Heavy Infantry
Light Infantry
Heavy Cavalry
16A

1A
2A
6V (UL), 
10A

1A
1A

2nd Coronea 394BC (Allies / Spartans)
Hoplites
Heavy Infantry
Light Infantry
Heavy Cavalry
14A

1A
2A
4V (AL), 
10A
1A
1A
2A

Leuctra 371BC (Spartans / Thebans)
Hoplites
Heavy Infantry
Light Infantry
Heavy Cavalry
7V (UL), 
1A, 
7L

1A
2L
1V, 
10A (IL)

1A
3A

2nd Mantinea 362BC (Allies / Thebans)
Hoplites
Heavy Infantry
Light Infantry
Heavy Cavalry
2V, 
13A

1A
3A
1V (IL), 
8A, 
5L

3A
4A

7 comments:

  1. Thank you for the list. Is this a count of units - how many miniatures are you using per unit?

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    1. Yes, it's a unit count. I would normally use 2 bases for veteran, 4 for average and 6 or 8 for levy, but I still haven't quite painted everything yet, so will probably use 2/3/6 until the rest are painted up.

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  2. Thanks a lot! That was useful :)

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    1. Glad to hear it. It was more a 'note to self' type post, but if it's helpful for others, that's great!

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  3. 2nd Coronea features peltasts both as ALI and AHI for the Spartans. Do you think Lost Battles captures peltasts and similar medium foot well?

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    1. Yes, the peltasts are the skiritae. I think LB does a pretty good job based on the evidence we have, but I'm certainly not an expert on this period!

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    2. Cheers Aaron, I often flick through the book and ponder these things! I suppose peltasts, thuereophoroi, celtic and iberian HI were all similarly armed and it would be needless to give each its own differing classifications.

      The hoplite special rules sound like they will provide a brutal clash in these battles!

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