Hypotheses are sweet as candies but of little value without the beginning of some evidence ; in this case, we don't know which translation was used... :-) Besides, this experiment is based on the research of a Doctorate in Greek History, an indication of diligence (and of his ability to translate An...

I am afraid the whys of 73% are a matter of hypothesis. If I get what you mean, melees were the normal/ultimate way of fighting for a hoplite phalanx but, in 73 % of the cases, one side collapsed before it because of its part-timers who refused it and run away before the impact. Because of inexperie...

For those interested and who wouldn't have noticed, there's a bibliography on the matter, when you click on 'more' below the video. Not being an heavy reader about warfare, what surprised me the most is the premise of this experiment being that phalanx breaks before or at impact (that is charges wit...

A very interesting video about the Hoplites vs Hoplites charges and especially routs.
Serious work.
In French but with very good subtitles in English as far as I could tell :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VerlSW1iPJ8

d'Artagnan, RL King's musketeer and character in novels, died during the siege of Maastricht in 1673 at the age of 60, most likely with a musket shot in his head, while he was leading the charge in a narrow passage. He was buried in a unkown place, his body never found since. But a few weeeks ago...

Does anyone know a free/'friendly' substitute to imgur that works in the UK (and elsewhere) ?

It also depends on what kind of (war)game you want, whether or not you're willing to add speculations and mistakes.

I modified the bit of script (shown above) aboout the reinforcement/withdrawal of the AI army, forcing it to occur only on human player’s turn, as new bugs happened today such as the reinforcement message ou the reinforcement not showing up at all. It seems to work better : if(((GetTurn() == 6) &...

a more mixed army would be more (...) historical. « historical » means based on written and archaeological traces, not maybe, most likely, etc. The issue with the Sea Peoples is that very little (if anything) is known for sure about them. Their geographical origin is uncertain. And the fact of comi...

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at it and reply ! I keep on testing to see if unwanted results come up. But there is the issue of the rout % calculation. Once the Persian cavalry has left, the Greeks have to rout 100% of the Persian non-light infantry to get a 53% win :). To fix it, I ...

I wrote this fragment of script for my scenario script (here is only the upper part of the FUNCTION) : FUNCTION StartTurn(side) { int turn; int i; int id if (GetTurn() == -1) { SetUniversalVar("Deploym", 0); } if(((GetTurn() >= 7) && (Rand(1,100) <= 20) && (GetTurn() <= 11)...

I get it. 1) I added RemoveTeam at the end of the fragment about the Reinforcement in my scenario script : FUNCTION StartTurn(side) { int id (...) if (GetTurn() == 3) // For testing. { id = PlaceUnit(36, 42, 4, 1, 6, "EASTERN_HILLMEN") AddVizCam(GetUnitX(id), GetUnitY(id), 0) AddVizFunctio...

Thank you very much, Richard !

I succeeded in turning the Persian Infantry into Reinforcements with Artaphernes as their C-in-C.

But I haven't figured out yet how to use the FUNCTION RemoveTeam.

I might have found an easy (ie script-free) solution. I made a module for this battle with 2 battles : 1) first, the skirmish against the Persian Cav, Chariots and LH with a limited number of turns (4 or 6) 2) second, the infantry battle against the Persian Infantry alone. All the Greek units are Un...

I'd like to have a battle in two 'episodes' : 1) Hoplites and LF are caught up and attacked by the Persian cavalry vangard 2) As soon as the slower Persian Infantry enter the battlefield in front of the Hoplites (using the Scripted Method of reinforcements), the enemy cavalry vangard withdraw (by th...

I won too easily with the Hoplites at the 3rd attempt, after a couple of small tweaks. Balancing scenarios is a hard task !

Paul59 wrote: Why not make them Raw?

Tested. Very nice working basis. During first test, I retreated from battle as Greek.
Thank you very much !

That's the option I've been thinking just after hitting 'Submit' and added to OP

Thanks for the quick advice. Will test it right away !!!

To have worn-out/demoralized Hoplites at the start of the battle of Ephesus (498 BC), should I rather : 1) make a couple of them disrupted from the beginning ? Often a very brief state. 2) use a few units of Shallow Armoured Hoplites, instead of plain Citizen/Armoured Hoplites ? It works well in the...