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  2. Legion: Tactical Warfare in the Roman Age, 100BC-700AD

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    Legion is a two-player tactical board wargame in which one player controls Roman legions, and the other player controls one of Rome's historic enemies during the period 100 BC to 700 AD, [1] including barbarian hordes, Carthaginians, and rebel legions.

  3. The History Channel: Great Battles of Rome - Wikipedia

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    Following the completion of the Roman portion of the game, the player is given control of the army of the Celts to command in a number of other battles. [13] Before each battle commences, the player is given the option to arrange twenty units within a set zone. These units range from skirmishers and archers to heavy cavalry and War Elephants ...

  4. Centurion: Defender of Rome - Wikipedia

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    The game begins in Ancient Rome in the year 275 BC, placing the player in the sandals of a centurion in the Roman army, at first leading a single legion.The player's ultimate goal is to become a Caesar through a mix of successful military conquests and internal politics of "Bread and Circuses".

  5. Roman army - Wikipedia

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    The central feature of the Roman army of the mid-Republic, or the Polybian army, was the manipular organization of its battle-line. Instead of a single, large mass (the phalanx ) as in the Early Roman army , the Romans now drew up in three lines consisting of small units (maniples) of 120 men, arrayed in chessboard fashion, giving much greater ...

  6. Roman infantry tactics - Wikipedia

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    Roman military tactics evolved from the type of a small tribal host-seeking local hegemony to massive operations encompassing a world empire. This advance was affected by changing trends in Roman political, social, and economic life, and that of the larger Mediterranean world, but it was also under-girded by a distinctive "Roman way" of war.

  7. List of Roman external wars and battles - Wikipedia

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    284 BC – Battle of Arretium – A Roman army under Lucius Caecilius is destroyed by the Gauls. 283 BC – Battle of Lake Vadimo – A Roman army under P. Cornelius Dolabella defeats the Etruscans and Gauls. 282 BC – Battle of Populonia – Etruscan resistance to Roman domination of Italy is finally crushed. Pyrrhic War (280–272 BCE) [2]

  8. List of SPI games - Wikipedia

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    The Battle for France (S&T #27, 1971) Battle for Germany (S&T #50, 1975) The Battle for Jerusalem (1977) Battle for Stalingrad (1980) Battle for the Ardennes (1978) The Battle of Austerlitz (1980) The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon in Russia 1812 (1972) Battle of Britain Revision Kit, (Test Series, 1970) The Battle of Moscow (S&T #24, 1970)

  9. Campaign history of the Roman military - Wikipedia

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    The Roman army had not yet seen elephants in battle, [77] and their inexperience turned the tide in Pyrrhus' favour at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC, [74] [77] [79] and again at the Battle of Ausculum in 279 BC. [77] [79] [80] Despite these victories, Pyrrhus found his position in Italy untenable.