The City States of Greece : A Koinon Hellenon AAR

[STuNTz2023]

Wow just wow. Love the story and the screenshots. A couple questions. How do you set up your formations for battle? In other words do you string up the hoplites into one long line? Also do you fight them so that they are deep as they are wide so that its a square unit? What units do you use to turn the flanks of the enemy? And finally whatever the formation you use is that a "traditional" fighting tactic of the Greeks? Hope I didnt overwhelm you with all that but I am following your AAR with great Interest. Greek history is fascinating to me. Awesome job

For my formation, on flat ground which is where ive read greek battle lines looked for, missile infront of a line of hoplites. I select the hoplites i want and just drag them out to the desired length. I try to keep the hoplites in a square, but i play with large formations, and if they havent been recently retrained that can be challenging. If i face mostly light troops i may make the phalanx very thin, to make flanking me much harder.

Next after the phalanx is placed and i move the superior hoplites to the right side of the phalanx. This early in the game itd go like this (left to right), levy, classical, spartans (general). I do this only because ive read about it when reading on ancient greek battles.

Finally i put a more flexable troop, usually theuropoi(sp?) but this early in the game hoplites behind the phalanx. Two units on each side. As for calvary, which i dont use a lot of but if its 3 or less units in a line behind my flanking units. If i have 4 units or more there also split up evenly on each side of the phalanx line.

Turning the flank of the enemy is usually simple, if they crash into your sheilds and they arent allowed to flank you, just watch the right side of the line.

As far as I can tell this is a historical formation, minus the calvary. I really dont know how they set up their calvary.

And the questions are no problem, greek history is fascinating to me as well. I'm glad you guys enjoy it.

Edit : Apperently after the long chapter i just wrote, the pictures are overwritting themselves. So all 30+ pictures are gone, which is depressing because they were awesome screenshots. Looks like the next chapter is going to be a lot of text.