First Mantinea ADLG Game

[Cyrus]

Yesterday we played an ADLG game of First Mantinea. My Spartans lost again, they don't have much of a track record!

https://bucellarii.blogspot.com/2023/03/first-battle-of-mantinea-adlg-game.html

[Imperial Dave]

great report

[dwkay57]

I was a bit confused for a minute as I thought it was the battle chosen for this year's battleday - but it wasn't which explained a lot.

Interesting how many Greek states had changed sides between the two battles.

[Cyrus]

I'd love to do Second Mantinea but need to paint more Theban hoplites. Shifting alliances I suppose is Greek democracy in action.

[dwkay57]

I've had to re-jig my Greek armies to approximate the team lists for the 362BCE battle, which has meant a lot are playing out of position and under aliases.

[Duncan Head]

I'd love to do Second Mantinea but need to paint more Theban hoplites.

This was our team's problem. Well, Bob Robertson's problem since he's painting all the figures - brave man He already had far more Spartans than we need, but has been running off another 80 or so Theban hoplites.

[Cyrus]

Leuctra and Second Mantinea are definitely on the to do list, I'll just have to finish painting all my Victrix Theban hoplites.