Historical Background
Motivated by an alliance with the Syracusan tyrant Dionysus to take up arms against neighboring Greek colonists, the Lucanian hill tribes gathered a large force in preparation to fight against a comparable force of Italiote Greeks advancing against them. Buoyed by an initial Lucanian retreat away from the coastal plains, the Thurians hastily set out to pursue the Lucanians without waiting for allied reinforcements and were ambushed near the mouth of the Laus River. According to the historian Diodorus, the Thurians were quickly overwhelmed and lost as many as 10,000 soldiers, with only a small group of survivors able to escape the slaughter. Many of those who escaped surrendered to the nearby warships of Dionysus' brother Leptines, who ransomed these survivors and brokered peace between the Lucanians and Italiotes, against the wishes of Dionysus.
The stage is set. The battle lines are drawn and you are in command. Can you change history?
War Council
Lucanian Army (use Barbarian blocks)
> Leader: unknown
> 5 Command Cards 
Thurian/Italiote Army (use Spartan/Greek blocks)
> Leader: unknown
> 4 Command Cards
Victory
6 banners
Special Rules
Italiote Reinforcement: On the fifth Thurian turn, Italiote reinforcements may be ordered in on the bottom left hex of the map board. Any card that allows all three infantry units to be ordered (Order 3 units Left, Line Command, etc.) permits them to be brought in on the map and placed on the entry hex or on unoccupied hexes adjacent to the entry hex. They may battle upon entering the map, and advance after combat if applicable.
