A first outing for a newly painted 2mm Mithridatic army against Pete's Romans in the 'Battle of Chaeronea' scenario from the Strength and Honour rules (with a couple of small changes to the Mithridatic list as I'd not finished painting everything yet!).

The Mithridatic force is more numerous but lower quality. The plan is to overwhelm the Roman wings while the centre delays the powerful Legions:

The first action sees the the Mithridatic scythed chariots quickly defeated by Roman cavalry as is traditional for scythed chariots in most wargame rules:
However, the chariots have done a job in that they allowed the Mithridatic cavalry and Cataphracts to gang up on the exposed Roman cavalry:
On the left the cavalry and cataphracts disappointingly only manage to drive the Roman cavalry across the front of their lines: 
On the right however the Mithridatic cavalry have combined well to make serious inroads into the Romans facing them:
The Mithridatics call for a VP count (you don't know how close the enemy or even your own army is to breaking as you pick up 'setback' and 'disaster' cards and only reveal them on a challenge!). The Romans narrowly fall to defeat with the Mithridatics close to their own break point:

Our first game of 'Strength & Honour' a new(ish) set of ancient rules from TFL. The rules are really meant to be used with 2 or 3mm armies to give you the appearance of a big battle where the look of the formations is more important than the individual figures! On a quick read-through they seemed to be somewhat similar to 'To the Strongest' in being grid based with an army defeat based on taking cards for setbacks and reverses with varying numbers on so you don't know exactly how near your or your opponents army is to breaking.

For this game we played the first scenario, the battle of Charonea in 86BC between the Roman army commanded by Dave and the Mithridatics commanded by myself.

The battlefield is basically open with the Mithridatics in the foreground and the Romans in the distance:

The Romans advance:
Mithridatic cavalry manage to attack Roman cavalry in the flank:
The Romans fall back but the Mithridatics become disordered:
The Mithridatic cavalry attempt to rally and promptly rout! Meanwhile the two infantry lines continue to advance:
Pikemen vs Legionaries! The Pikes have a slight advantage:
The combat is inconclusive though:
On the left the Mithridatics have the advantage of numbers but are finding it hard to get into contact:
Slave phalangites are routed by Legionaries:
A second unit of pikes routs:
The scythed chariots charge into the flank of a legionary unit pushing it back:
They follow up but the Romans rally:
By now another pike unit had routed and the Mithridatic situation was grim with their entire centre routed. A quick count up of the cards agreed with my feeling that the army was defeated...