Wars Of The Diadochi Game
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The mighty armies deployed, Seleucid to the left and Ptolomy to the left. Over a thousand figures on a 12 foot by 4 foot table.Ptolomy's left flank's starting position.
Companion style cavalry, elephants with escorts and Egyptian Levy PhalanxPtolomy's Phalanx blockPtolomy's right flank elephantsThe Seleucid left, heavy cavalry, pike phalanx all fronted by 'dubious' ArabsSeleucid's center. Elephants, peltasts and Agema Pikes, the elite of the army.Seleucid right, Thracian light horse (black cloaks) and elite cavalrySeleucid's AgemaThe elites collide. Seleucid Agema calsh with Ptolomy's Basilikai, his elite pike who fought in shallower formations. Ptolomy's guard made a good show of the fight despite being out numbered.Seleucid's mercenary Greeks advancing towards the Egyptian leviesA view over the far side of the battlefield, lots of action going on.Top of the picture the two main phalanx blocks come to grips with each other. In the foreground the Ptolomy's greek mercenaries advance on the elephants.And on the Ptolemaic left the cavalry clashFrom behind Ptolomy's line, the Egyptian Levy pike and the Basilikai elite phalanx.A view form Ptolomy's rightAs seen from Seleucid lines, yours truly rolling terrible dice.again!. 15mm Bolt Action US Army (Commission) 3 Vehicles-1 Gun 95 Foot. 15mm Bolt Action WW2 German (Commission) 2 Vehicles-3 Guns.
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10mm WSS 16 Foot. 15mm Bolt Action WW2 British (Commission) 80 Foot-4 Vehicles.
15mm ACW Confederates 72 Foot. 15mm Late Achaemenid Persian-8 Foot. 10mm SYW Russian 40 Foot-45 Mounted- 3 Guns.
15mm Marian Roman(commission) 230 Foot-15 Mounted. 15mm AVBCW 32 Foot-1 Vehicle. 15mm Punic Wars-190 Foot-42 Mounted-6 Chariots.
15mm FOW US Army (Commission)-68 Foot. 15mm Battle of Raphia-443 Foot-44 Horse-16 Elephant-11 Casualty Markers.
The Diadochi would be a fantastic subject for a game, but I'm not sure that the Ageod engine could handle it properly.It was too much of a civil war, and armies could (and did) quickly turn on their commanders and change sides. Perdiccas was about to win the civil war when his troops took too many casualties staging an assault across the Nile, and they turned on him and killed him.
I don't think Ageod's national morale mechanic was designed to handle that kind of thing.By the time of the Epigoni (the next generation of rulers), the Successor states were acting a bit more like actual countries. But the subject is so far off normal people's radar that I doubt you could get anyone to buy it (even if you told them about the elephants). Well Philippe,I challenge you. Ask as many of your friends in France (normal people no gamers no historians) who was Alexander, Antigonus, Cassander, Antipater etc and then who was Carl XII, Pjotr I,Frederik IV, August II etc. I amvery curius for the results.
I dont want to do this test here in Greece because it won t be fair.I own ageod 's flagship PON, the excellent AJE and the very stable and perfect gameplay WIA.You are the best in whatever you do so please reconsider Successors or Pelloponisian wars with all Greek states of the era, or at least have it in the back of your mindYours,George. Wow this is an old thread but I also feel that the AGE engine would make a great Peloponnesian, Alexander, Diadochi game.
Why not all three in the AJE vein of (admiterdly large)DLC campaigns. The map should include Sicily and Italy and extend east to India and the Punjab. If necessary large area's could be greyed out for the different campaigns although large area's would still be relevent to most campaigns. The Peloponnesian war would include Sicily and southern Italy all the way to the eastern marches of Persia and north to the Crimea and south to Upper Egypt.
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The Diadochi the same. In fact one could go the whole hog and include eastern Spain and Southern France which would mean the whole of the Med would be portrayed so Carthage could be included and even a young Rome. Look I am just spitballing here but I would love to see a Peloponnesian war game and also the Diadochi. Alexander though it has been done before would also be good as well as providing continuity between the two periods I most want to see.
Please, please AGEOD consider a large scale Med based game which concentrates on the Peloponnesian War and the Diadochi (and Alexander. I have always thought that the Diadochi, in fact the entire Successor States period would make a fantastic game. As mentioned above the somewhat low morale or at leasat commitment of the troops to their leaders would have to be modelled but surely either operational morale or national morale or a mix of the two could be modified to introduce this factor as a game mechanic. I mean this period is interesting everywhere.
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The struggles in Europe between the Greek city states, Epirus and Macedonia never mind the Romans in Magna Graecia and the Carthaginians in Sicily. In the east you have ready made factions such as the Royal Argead faction, Antipater and the Macedonian homeland, the Greek city states (perhaps organised in to Leagues or factions although i would like to see the larger city states each being an independent faction to be suborned by one or other of the Diadochi. The cast of characters is no less inspiring. Perdicas and Ptolomy, Antigonus and Demetrius (now there was a man of his time) Pyrrhus of Epirus the list goes on and on.
This and the Peloponnesian War are the two millieu I have always most wanted to see attempted by AGEOD and the AGE engine or perhaps PARADOX (I believe you guys are linked now?). Neither has been successfully portrayed and both offer so much factional and historical immersiveness. I know this is an old thread but I hope someone with the company picks up on it or at least reads it and has the kernal of an idea implanted there. Pocus you still work for this lot?