I was playing as the Greeks and my Strategos - who has been sitting in the capitol for too long - decides that it is time to avenge the Macedonian aggression which recently resulted in the death of one of his family members. Mind you, he's 71 years old at this point. He takes his youngest son with him, mainly to observe and learn. The battle was on open ground near Larissa and the two armies faced off. The Greek army was made up of Armored Hoplites, with Illyrian mercenaries acting as light infantry to protect the flanks and Cretan archers positioned behind the hoplite lines to protect them from cavalry and infantry attack. When the massive amounts of Macedonian cavalry attempted to flank the Greek hoplites, I turned the flanks of my lines, and the Macedonian cavalry met nothing but a wall of spears and shields. Thracian mercenaries that I positioned on my left flank ripped apart the Macedonian light lancers, allowing me to commit some of my Illyrian mercenaries to bolster the right flank. Eventually I ended up rolling up the Macedonians on my right flank, surrounding several hundred of them with Armored Hoplites who stabbed mercilessly into the mass of them. A charge by Macedonian cavalry threatened the Hoplites on my right flank, who's backs were exposed. I sent the only cavalry I had which was my General and his son and their bodyguards. They succeeded in driving the Macedonian cavalry off but in the process, my Strategos was killed. His son survived however and the Greeks won a strategic victory, destroying a large Macedonian army which was poised to besiege Larissa and with very small casualties. From this battle, the former Strategos' son learned much. He saw the power of Macedonian cavalry and decided to challenge Macedonian cavalry supremacy and he raised several units of Greek cavalry and militia cavalry. By using them collaboratively with Hoplites, archers, and light infantry, he managed to become an unstoppable general and crushed three massive Macedonian armies and a Roman Brutii army led by Amulius Brutus. He has yet to be defeated.
