Description

One of five games in a series by SPI called PRESTAGS (the others were CHARIOT, LEGION, VIKING and YEOMAN). Tactical level game. Each game shares a set of the same common rules. Each game also has a set of exclusive rules that highlight features of warfare during the period that game covers.

Tagline: Tactical Warfare in the Hellenistic Age 500-100 BC

Spartan covers the period from the rise of Greece to the beginning of the Roman ascendance, including the rise and fall of Persia and Carthage. Scenarios included are:

400 counters

Greek Ascendance
Marathon (490 BC), Greeks vs. Persians
Plataea (479 BC), Greeks vs. Persians
Corinth (394 BC), Confederacy vs. Spartans
Mantinea (362 BC), Spartans vs. Thebans
Cheronea (338 BC), Macedonians vs. Greeks
Granicus (334 BC), Macedonians vs. Persians
Issus (333 BC), Macedonians vs. Persians
Arbela (331 BC), Macedonians vs. Persians
Ipsus (301 BC),Macedonians vs. Allies

Roman Ascendance
Heraclea (280 BC), Romans vs. Pyrrhus
Asculum (278 BC), Romans vs. Pyrrhus
Beneventum (275 BC), Romans vs. Pyrrhus
Cannae (216 BC), Romans vs. Carthaginians
Zama (202 BC), Romans vs. Carthaginians
Cynoscephelae (197 BC), Romans vs. Macedonians
Magnesia (190 BC), Romans vs. Antiochus
Pydna (168 BC), Romans vs. Macedonians

Exclusive rules include instructions for the use of elephants and special leaders.