Command & Colours: Ancients: The Spartan Army
Command & Colours: Ancients: The Spartan Army
This is an expansion for Command & Colours: Ancients and requires the base game to play.
The Spartan Army expansion features over 20 scenarios, which focus on a period of time from 669 BC to 338 BC. In the early battles of Sparta against Argive, we see the development of Hoplite armies. We then move onto the war with the Persian Empire and take a closer look at the battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC. During the Peloponnesian Wars, Sparta takes a leader position among the Peloponnesian states, which would last for almost two centuries. Finally there is a shift in power away from Sparta during the battles of the Theban Era and the rise of Macedon.
The Spartan Army expansion also provides all the blocks and stickers needed to field a Spartan Army and its allies to oppose the armies from Commands & Colors: Ancients - Expansion #1 - Greek vs Eastern Kingdoms. As well as one sheet of 15 new double sided Terrain Tiles.
Rules-wise, if you are familiar with Commands & Colors: Ancients, you'll have no trouble at all learning the special rules for Hoplite infantry, for the basic game mechanics remain unchanged. Battle dice still resolve combat quickly and the Command cards provide an element of luck that creates a fog of war and presents players with both challenges and opportunities for victory.
As with all Commands & Colors: Ancients expansions to date, the tactics you will need to execute with thees Hoplite armies will conform remarkably well to the advantages and limitations inherent to these historical units, their weapons, the terrain and history.
- Publisher Page
Contents:
- Rule/Scenario Booklet that features 26 historical scenarios
- 1 Reference Card
- 228 Blocks
- Block Label sheets
- 2 Terrain Tile Sheets: each contains 15 double-sided Terrain Tiles
Scenarios:
- Hysiae 669 BC
- Thyreatis 545 BC
- Sepeia 494 BC
- Thermopylae (Middle Gate) 480 BC
- Thermopylae (Grand Overview) 480 BC
- Plataea 479 BC
- Mycale 479 BC
- Tanagra 457 BC
- Olpae 426 BC
- Sphacteria 425 BC
- Delium 424 BC
- Amphipolis 422 BC
- Mantinea 418 BC
- Anapus River 415 BC
- Phyle 404 BC
- Munychia 404 BC
- Piraeus 403 BC
- Centrites River 401 BC
- Coronea 394 BC
- Nemea 394 BC
- Lechaeum 391 BC
- Tegyra 375 BC
- Leuctra 371 BC
- Mantinea 362 BC
- Chaeronea 338 BC
- Megalopolis 331 BC
