Dice or No Dice

  After his resounding victory last week Gareth asked for more Greeks this week.  I decided to ring the changes by fielding a mix of Macedonians and Greeks in a 'What if?' scenario.  What if the Lamian War had not gone as it did and instead of Leonatus coming to a sticky end against the Greek alliance he won his battle against them and then attempted to execute his plan of taking out Antipater and making himself ruler of Macedon? This gave the justification for lining up two armies each containing Macedonians along with sundry Greek allies.  On one side, Leonatus, backed up by Craterus, brought four blocks of Macedonian phalanx supported by four units of Greek allied hoplites and a variety of light troops and given extra striking power by a couple of units of Macedonian lancers.  Opposing them, Antipater had only two blocks of Macedonian phalanx but had allied contigents from Boeotia and Sparta.  The latter had two A class hoplite units to counter-balance L...