Although he won the battle, the cost was so high in men that "pyrrhic victory" is still used to describe a triumph brought at a terrible cost.īloodied by his campaigns in Italy and Sicily, Pyrrhus returned to Epirus and raised a new army to conquer Greece and Macedonia. King Pyrrhus of Epirus liked to believe that he was the last in a long line of kings, a great warrior in the tradition of Alexander the Great and worthy enough to be from the heroic age of Greece.Īfter his early successes against his Greek and Macedonian neighbours, his luck changed when matched against the Romans at Asculum in 279 BC. The reinforcement army is smaller and is composed only of a few hoplites and a bodyguard.
The Spartan garrison is composed mainly of hoplites with a few skirmishers and one unit of peasants and bodyguards. The Pyrrhean army is composed mainly of phalanx pikemen, with a few cavalry, archers, slingers, elephants and artillery units.
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