Ancient Campaign 65BC: Battle of Solo

PeterC is running an ancient campaigns set in a Roman civil war fought in Asia Minor. This was the first battle. 

Ventidus' army is all Roman troops & is deployed on a hill side in front of his camp.
Labienus with a smaller Roaman force plus his Parthian ally Pacorus I have deplyed to attack.

Pics from now on taken from Pacorus's end of the table.
Pacorus' cavalry force is advancing on Ventidus' much smaller cavalry while Labienus has moved up, but not closed with Ventidus' infantry.

Ventidus' cavalry are outnumbered & only have the slope to help them against Pacorus' mix of horse archers & cataphracts.  Ventidus has declined r=to advance his infnatry fearing attacks on hsi flanks from Labienus on hsi left & Pacorus' 2nd line on his eright.  He turns his right flank to face left to guard against loss by his cavalry.  The only ation on the far flank & centrre is a bit of skirmishing.

Ventidius' cavalry has been broken, but the allies decline to attack his foot.

There are steep wooded hils behind Ventidius' pisiton so his routed cavalry escape to their right (near side of the table).  The other troops retire to theor camps for the night.

We had quite a crowd here for this with several veterans of the group from the 70's that now live elsewhere visiting Hobart at the same time.