Strength & Honour Heraklea Pyrrhic v Republican Roman

A Strength & Honour game against Pete using the new Conquest supplement to play the battle of Heraklea  between Pyrrhus' Epirot army and Lavainus commanding the Republican Romans. The Roman's aim was to cross the Siris river in the face of the Epirot army using a flank marching force of cavalry to hopefully outflank the enemy.

The Epirots deploy to defend the ford (which counts as open ground to cross, the rest of the river is difficult to cross):

Epirot skirmishers cross the river to delay the Romans:

A Roman Legion attempts to clear them away:

Remarkably the skirmishers repulse the Legion. Another Legion heads for the ford but is faced off by the Epirot cavalry while a Phalanx takes on a third Legion that has crossed the river:

Epirot cavalry are forced back:

Two Legions are now across the river but are somewhat isolated:

The Roman flanking cavalry arrive on the right but are faced off by the Epirot elephants:

The battle ends with some Romans across the river but the rest being held by Phalanx units:

Great fun and the 3mm armies really look like armies rather than the normal handful of figures! The result was a win to Pete's Romans who had got the required three units across the river. All the units are very versatile and could be used to represent most of the armies in the Conquest supplement so hopefully we will get some more games in, perhaps following the entire campaign of Pyyrhus!