The Seleucids invaded lands occupied by the Galatians, a people from the Danube area of Europe who had moved south through Greece and into Asia Minor.
The Galatian deployment was unusual in having three commands layered one behind the other, the advance command being all mounted cavalry, chariots and expendables, and the two remaining commands being all warband superior.
The Seleucids had two commands set up side by side, each having a mixture of pike, knights fast, elephants, and expendables. The right hand command also had a small number of light horse out on the right flank.
The Seleucids struggled to advance quickly as a deployment mistake had been made, mixing mounted with foot, and regular with irregular. This gave the Galatian cavalry and chariots the time to move out to their left, turning inwards to face the advancing Seleucids, and creating a flanking situation.
The Seleucid expendables were sent forward and made inroads into the Galatian cavalry before breaking through to hit the warband command behind. Bizarrely the Galatians also had expendables which were sent to attack the elephants, but the Galatian expendables were wiped out in one round of combat.
The Seleucid right hand command became very fragmented where the Galatian cavalry threatened them.
The Seleucid right hand command sent a phalanx of pike forward to try and further damage the Galatian cavalry, which served to soak up the very few movement pips that the Galatians were throwing.
Meanwhile the main Seleucid army had slowly rumbled forward, and the Galatian warband commands also moved out to meet them, although the game was over before they made contact.
The Galatian cavalry command was slowly whittled down, not helped when the Seleucid light horse managed to get around and into their rear, and over two critical bounds the cavalry command went through disheartened and then broke. The Galatians then surrendered and the fight was over.
The Galatians had lost 12.5 ME plus their expendables, and the Seleucids 1 ME plus one expendable.
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