"Your Favorite Ancient Greek Battle to Game? - Final Round" Topic

Salamis. What can I say? Once a squid, always a squid.

I voted Salamis also. First time I played the battle was AH Trireme.

Another vote for Salamis!

I think Salamis is a great sea battle. There are a lot of really good choices for land battles. Thank the Persians and the Greeks for making this poll possible!

Wasn't the battle of Marathon a fight over a chocolate and caramel candy bar?

I have a photocopy of a hilarious wargame parody cartoon from the 1970s that purports to simulate the battle of Thermopylae. There are about three hexes on the map, surrounded by mountains and sea, and there is one huge honking Spartan counter in the OB and a few Persians with lesser combat factors and the rules are essentially, "Sequence of Play: The Persian units may stack and then move and attack the Spartan unit; roll a die for the combat results [it was something like on everything but a one, the Persians are eliminated, one is an Exchange]; eliminated Persian units reappear as replacements on the start of each game turn; and the game continues until the Spartan unit is eliminated. Pretty funny pastiche! I oughta go look for it and reproduce it here.

This is perhaps why Thermopylae, like the Alamo, is tough to make into a balanced, engaging game. So I vote for Plataea, a much more desperate affair and with really large armies on all sides.

The Battle of Leuctra, eschelon deployment. Stacking a flank, a bit of thought in initial deployment. It's what tabletop wargaming is all about for me.