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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.
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 ...
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".
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 ...
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.
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]
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)
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.