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Empires: The Battle of Marathon – Historical Battle Scenario

Empires: The Battle of Marathon – Historical Battle Scenario

War of Life Gaming · 2014Expansion
230–120 min9+ yrsCouplesStrategy
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Empires: The Battle of Marathon - Historical Battle Scenarios This supplement allows players to re-enact decisive battles from history. This is the first historical battle scenarios for use with all Empires rulesets.

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Empires: The Battle of Marathon - Historical Battle Scenarios

This supplement allows players to re-enact decisive battles from history.

This is the first historical battle scenarios for use with all Empires rulesets. For the purposes of the average tabletop-wargame, the size of actual troop numbers have been scaled down so from what were used from thousands down to a few hundred.

The Historical Battle Scenarios only use units available from the Empires rulebooks.

Suitable for all Empires rulebooks: D6, D10, D20, Diceless and Colossus.

The Battle of Marathon was fought in 490BC, during the first Persian invasion of Greece between the people of Athens (aided by Plataea) and the Persian army. Under King Darius I, this battle was the Persians first attempt to take over Greece. The out numbered Greek army defeated the Persians in the Battle of Marathon and the battle marked the turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars, showing that the Persians could be beaten in battle.

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CouplesStrategy
Play time
30–120 min
Players
2
Recommended age
9+ yrs
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