Oinephyta 457 BC

[MengJiao]

  So apparently after the Spartans won Tanagra, their army was such a wreck that they went home, leaving the happy and healthy losers (the Athenian Army) to seek out and crush the Thebans and their allies and thus gain hegenomy over Thessally for a generation.

   So what did Oinephyta look like?  It happened on the Asopos River and that river is on the Hoplite Platea map.  So here is a shot at Oinephyta (Mark I):

   1) initial set up:

   

[MengJiao]

  So apparently after the Spartans won Tanagra, their army was such a wreck that they went home, leaving the happy and healthy losers (the Athenian Army) to seek out and crush the Thebans and their allies and thus gain hegenomy over Thessally for a generation.

   So what did Oinephyta look like?  It happened on the Asopos River and that river is on the Hoplite Platea map.  So here is a shot at Oinephyta (Mark I):

   1) initial set up:

   

   The Athenians advance in some disarray (having it is supposed crossed the river and not quite gotten into a regular alignment, but using that irregularity to give a one-two punch at the Theban center):

[MengJiao]

  So apparently after the Spartans won Tanagra, their army was such a wreck that they went home, leaving the happy and healthy losers (the Athenian Army) to seek out and crush the Thebans and their allies and thus gain hegenomy over Thessally for a generation.

   So what did Oinephyta look like?  It happened on the Asopos River and that river is on the Hoplite Platea map.  So here is a shot at Oinephyta (Mark I):

   1) initial set up:

   

   The Athenians advance in some disarray (having it is supposed crossed the river and not quite gotten into a regular alignment, but using that irregularity to give a one-two punch at the Theban center):

   Both sides are moving at the beginning of turn 2:

[MengJiao]

  So apparently after the Spartans won Tanagra, their army was such a wreck that they went home, leaving the happy and healthy losers (the Athenian Army) to seek out and crush the Thebans and their allies and thus gain hegenomy over Thessally for a generation.

   So what did Oinephyta look like?  It happened on the Asopos River and that river is on the Hoplite Platea map.  So here is a shot at Oinephyta (Mark I):

   1) initial set up:

   

   The Athenians advance in some disarray (having it is supposed crossed the river and not quite gotten into a regular alignment, but using that irregularity to give a one-two punch at the Theban center):

   Both sides are moving at the beginning of turn 2:

   After the initial collision (one Theban phalanx gone):

[MengJiao]

  So apparently after the Spartans won Tanagra, their army was such a wreck that they went home, leaving the happy and healthy losers (the Athenian Army) to seek out and crush the Thebans and their allies and thus gain hegenomy over Thessally for a generation.

   So what did Oinephyta look like?  It happened on the Asopos River and that river is on the Hoplite Platea map.  So here is a shot at Oinephyta (Mark I):

   1) initial set up:

   

   The Athenians advance in some disarray (having it is supposed crossed the river and not quite gotten into a regular alignment, but using that irregularity to give a one-two punch at the Theban center):

   Both sides are moving at the beginning of turn 2:

   After the initial collision (one Theban phalanx gone):

   Start of turn 3; the one-two punch has broken another Theban phalanx (and during turn 3, the Thebans break completely):