Seleucid Core Army Unit Designation Unit Size Tactical Usage Fight. Value Weapons Morale Skirm. Lancers 12 Heavy Cav. 5-6 Lance +1 - Lancers 12 Heavy Cav. 5-6 Lance +1 - Lancers 12 Heavy Cav. 5-6 Lance +1 - Asian Greeks 16 Heavy Cav. 4-6 Javelins 0 - Asian Greeks 16 Heavy Cav. 4-6 Javelins 0 - Pergamenes 12 Light Cav. 4-6 Javelins 0 - Greek Merc. 12 Light Cav. 3-6 Javelins 0 - Mercenary Peltasts 12 Light Inf. 3-6 Javelins 0 +1 Mercenary Peltasts 12 Light Inf. 3-6 Javelins 0 +1 Mercenary Peltasts 12 Light Inf. 3-6 Javelins 0 +1 Cretan Bows 20 Skirmish Inf. - Bows - 0 Phalanx 36 Heavy Inf. 5-6 Pikes +1 - Phalanx 36 Heavy Inf. 5-6 Pikes +1 - Allied Phalanx 36 Heavy Inf. 4-6 Pikes 0 - Galatians 32 Heavy Inf. 4-6 Spears 0 - SPECIAL RULES Skirmisher Vulnerability Galatians are very vulnerable to enemy skirmishers due to their extremely dense infantry formations. Allow enemy skirmishers to roll three dice per every two attacking figures against the Galatian infantry instead of one. All kills are still made on a normal roll of '6'. Barbarian Charge Bonus Galatians receive a Barbarian Charge Bonus on a die roll of 4-6, as per sec 15.0 in TACTiCA. Section 14.7-8 not applicable here. Victory Conditions The Pergamene army is defeated when 2 Main Battleline units are broken. REFERENCE NOTES [1] Pergamene wealth was based on a variety of commodities including oil, grain, wine, horses, gold and silver deposits and a virtual monopoly on the production of parchment in direct competition with Ptolemaic Egypt. See Peter Green, Alexander to Actium, the Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age. Los Angeles: Uiversity of California Press, 1990, pp. 167-168. [2] Michael Grant, From Alexander to Cleopatra. New York: Collier Books, 1982, p. 68. [3] Grant. op. cit., p. 70. [4] Green, op. cit., pg. 195. [5] For a brief but informative selected review see Hans Del bruck, Warfare in Antiquity, Vol. 1, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1975, 237-249. [6] By allowing players to seleatheirown additional Seleucid troop types players can effectively represent several different types of WRC army lists: 38 - Asiatic Early Successor, 39 - Lysimachid and 41 - Seleucid proper. [7] For treatment and depiction of these armored horsemen see Duncan Head, Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars. London: Wargame Research Croup, 1982. [8] See J. Scullard, The Elephant in the Greek and Roman Worid. London, n.p., 1974, pp. 121, 181. [9] See Delbruck, op. cit., 238-239. [10] After the battle of Gabiene, 316 B.C. the Seleucids never trusted the Argyraspides again. See Duncan Head, op. cit., 69. [11] See Green, op. cit., pg 166. [12] See Donald Kagen. The Archidamian War. Ithaca, New York; Cornell University Press, 1974, pges. 27-28, 38. [13] See Green, op. cit., pg. 140. [14] See Green, op. cit., pp. 265, 262-264. [15] See Green, op. cit., pg. 264. [16] Refer to Head, op. cit., cvoer page for good illustration. [17] See R. Malcolm Errington. A History of Macedonia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, pp. 197-198. Tactica Guide to the Hellenistic World Part Two: The Seleucids and the Pergamese Seleucid Design, Opponents, and Painting Seleucid Army Lists Pergamene Design, Opponents, and Painting Pergamene Army Lists Back to Table of Contents -- Courier #56 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1991 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com