No time in Xmas week to set up a new OOB, so used last weeks, just removed the elephants.
Ptolemy: Mike
Seleucis: SteveJ & Jim
Both sides deployed onvntionally with inf in the centre & cav on the flanks, but Ptolemy made his left stronger than his right. Both side deployed mostly in two lines, best troops in the front line. Ptolemy held back his weaker right flank & advanced with his right.
Seeucis advanced on the whole front.Prety much full frontal all the way along except a gap appeared between Ptolemy's infantry's left & cavalry's right & Seleucis slipped Thorakatai & light cav into it. OIn the far flank, Ptolemy's superior numbers of cavary was getting on top.
In the centre Ptolemy's levy phalanx is doing pretty well espcially at their left end where they broke the Galacians On the Seleucis phalanx' flank.
On the left, Ptolemy's cavalry is generally winning, except on the right of the cavalry line where the Seleucid catapfracts have broken thru.On the far flank Ptolemy's cavalry is mopping up.
In the centre Seleucis is wrapping around Ptolemy's Thorakatai, but the levy phalanx units have broken Seleucis' Galacians & a veteran phalanx unit. The next levy phalanx unit was broken, but their veteran opponents are under pressure from the levy unit that beat off the Galacians.
Ptolemy's second line peltasts broke the Thorakitai trying to break thru the gap, but Seleucis' Cataphracts are charging towards the Ptolomy's infantry rear as Thorakitai hold off Ptolemy's victorious cavalry.
Seleucis has lost heavily, but got the breaks at the end so Ptolemy failed his army morale test first. Another close battle with sound tactics on both sides. Ptolemy did a good job maximising the chances for his levy phalanx. Seleucis's cataphracts breaking thu on the right with troops in place to exploit it may have been the decisive event, as otherwise Seleucis would have been rolled up from the right by Ptolemy's cavalry.
Two battles with almost the same armies giving very close but opposite results indicates that the points system can't be far wrong.





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