This year has been a non starter for actual wargaming, but I mean to finish the year with a flourish by taking on my usual opponent Mr. Ireland across the field of Korupedion ( Corupedium).
One of the more obscure Successor battles, Korupedion was fought in 281BC, north of Sardis in Western Asia Minor between the last of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus Nicator & Lysimachus. Both of these gentlemen were Septegenarians by this point but obviously still up for a good scrap.
Seleucus supposedly instigated the war because of some dynastic insult, but the real reason is more likely to have been the death of Ptolemy I Soter the year before. Ptolemy was an important ally of Lysimachus, helping sustain his somewhat un-popular rule & his demise would have given Seleucus an opportunity to invade the Lysimachid territories in Macedonia & Greece finally re-uniting Alexander's empire.
Great looking bases for those skirmishers, HGA. I've been doing some re-basing too; actually re-based some Napoleonic skirmisher onto 40mm squares - 3 figs per. I'm tired of moving individual figures - even skirmishers. Merry Christmas. Dean
ReplyDeleteCheers Dean, Merry Christmas to you too.
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