The Ballad of Bradicles
Treachery! Turn 2
Bradicles watched the heavy Roman cavalry open its formation. He studied them intently, wondering what they’d do. He’d expected them to go around the field and maneuver through the hovels of the farmers. He frowned in concern. That frown turned into a look of incredulity as he saw the Roman cavalry pick up speed and leap over the low wall. Bradicles couldn’t but help admire them. Such boldness! To risk these expensive horses and the possibility of broken legs and tumbling riders.
The Equites rapidly cross the field and crashed into the Pezhetairoi. Pushed back, they struggled to hold ground. 
The slingers briefly disrupted the Roman formation allowing the Hoplites to advance but the Romans reformed and the Hoplites were rebuffed. 
Apparently the Sicilian sun is too intense for the Romans as they appear to be wearing sunscreen. Still, the Velites move up. 
Like ghosts, the Roman’s Samnite allies rush through the woods and devastated the Pezhetairoi on the right flank. Bradicles was cursing. Damn these Romans! First the cavalry pressed his left flank hard but it still held. But now those Samnite barbarians had utterly turned his right flank as the last survivors of the Pezhetairoi streamed through the woods back to the camp. And his vaunted Hypaspists had been repulsed. Still, they seemed ready to fight on and his slingers we’re scoring the occasional hit. It couldn’t be that bad, could it?
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