Game last Thursday.
Seleucids vs Ptolemaic. Quite the game. We managed to pull out a win, I played Seleucids. My partner managed to get elephants on their flank and rolled them up
Seleucids vs Ptolemaic. Quite the game. We managed to pull out a win, I played Seleucids. My partner managed to get elephants on their flank and rolled them up
February 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Game last Thursday.
Seleucids vs Ptolemaic. Quite the game. We managed to pull out a win, I played Seleucids. My partner managed to get elephants on their flank and rolled them up
Seleucids vs Ptolemaic. Quite the game. We managed to pull out a win, I played Seleucids. My partner managed to get elephants on their flank and rolled them up
Clubbing it! Republican Romans vs Seleucids Part 1
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Clubbing it! Republican Romans vs Seleucids Part 1
Wargames Miniature Painting
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September 7, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Clubbing it! Republican Romans vs Seleucids Part 1
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*the Seleucids have entered the chat*
What are you thinking of? Jews had detractors before Christianity, but I think what we know of now as antisemitism is rooted in Roman ideas
May 3, 2024 at 11:06 PM
*the Seleucids have entered the chat*
Pretty sure the Seleucids
June 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Pretty sure the Seleucids
Ptolemaics v Seleucids today
April 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Ptolemaics v Seleucids today
Why are these elites behaving like this is a Paradox game and not *gestures as whatever nonsense the Seleucids are up to* is kind of the question about Rome.
January 6, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Why are these elites behaving like this is a Paradox game and not *gestures as whatever nonsense the Seleucids are up to* is kind of the question about Rome.
Trying (desperately) to finish this chapter on Hellenistic mobilization systems has left me more impressed with how much the Antigonids do with so little and *intensely* disappointed with how little the Ptolemies and Seleucids do with so much.
December 6, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Trying (desperately) to finish this chapter on Hellenistic mobilization systems has left me more impressed with how much the Antigonids do with so little and *intensely* disappointed with how little the Ptolemies and Seleucids do with so much.
Clubbing it! Republican Romans vs Seleucids Part 2
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Clubbing it! Republican Romans vs Seleucids Part 2
Wargames Miniature Painting
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September 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Clubbing it! Republican Romans vs Seleucids Part 2
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Seleucids v Late Romans. To the Strongest at the club today.
December 15, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Seleucids v Late Romans. To the Strongest at the club today.
So this was a system with some clear vulnerabilities, but which enabled Carthage to field really large armies that were actually quite effective (unlike the Macedonians and the Seleucids, the Carthage sometimes defeats Roman armies!). 34/
March 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So this was a system with some clear vulnerabilities, but which enabled Carthage to field really large armies that were actually quite effective (unlike the Macedonians and the Seleucids, the Carthage sometimes defeats Roman armies!). 34/
Sunday is for uprisings. Against Seleucids no less.
Initial moves underway.
Initial moves underway.
March 15, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Sunday is for uprisings. Against Seleucids no less.
Initial moves underway.
Initial moves underway.
the resistance of the cholesterol in your arteries to your bloodstream is a metaphor for the resistance of the maccabees to the seleucids
I love that Jews invented a holiday that’s about frying food. One of our finest.
December 25, 2024 at 11:50 PM
the resistance of the cholesterol in your arteries to your bloodstream is a metaphor for the resistance of the maccabees to the seleucids
And, you know, the Seleucids…
July 30, 2026 at 10:23 AM
And, you know, the Seleucids…
This week time for some #15mm #DBA for four players. The armies deployed included Gauls, Polybian Romans, Seleucids, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons & two Japanese armies. All games against historical opponent. Photos of Seleucids vs Romans & Japanese of the Sengoku Jidai period. A great evening indeed!
June 6, 2026 at 10:56 PM
expeditions: seleucids temple pillaging simulator
July 30, 2026 at 7:17 PM
expeditions: seleucids temple pillaging simulator
Seleucids throw in their exotics
April 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Seleucids throw in their exotics
Not proving as easy as history for the Seleucids
January 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Not proving as easy as history for the Seleucids
The outnumbered Seleucids hold one flank on a steep wooded hill, but the odds look badly against them.
December 30, 2024 at 7:12 PM
The outnumbered Seleucids hold one flank on a steep wooded hill, but the odds look badly against them.
Battle of Raphia 217BC. Seleucids v Egyptians using a grid based game called War Band.
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Battle of Raphia 217BC. Seleucids v Egyptians using a grid based game called War Band.
The Seleucids just had an unmanageable empire
January 7, 2026 at 3:10 AM
The Seleucids just had an unmanageable empire
Macedonians and Seleucids deployed for a first tryout of the Age of Hannibal rules. Figures a mix of Baccus and Rapier. #6mmwargaming
April 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Macedonians and Seleucids deployed for a first tryout of the Age of Hannibal rules. Figures a mix of Baccus and Rapier. #6mmwargaming
Likewise, the Roman victory against the Seleucids at Thermopylae (191) relied on a long-distance flanking maneuver by - wait for it - yet more military tribunes, Marcus Porcius Cato and Lucius Valerius Flaccus.
Roman soldiers were disciplined and certainly effective, but very much soldiers.
Roman soldiers were disciplined and certainly effective, but very much soldiers.
January 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Likewise, the Roman victory against the Seleucids at Thermopylae (191) relied on a long-distance flanking maneuver by - wait for it - yet more military tribunes, Marcus Porcius Cato and Lucius Valerius Flaccus.
Roman soldiers were disciplined and certainly effective, but very much soldiers.
Roman soldiers were disciplined and certainly effective, but very much soldiers.
5th Syrian War campaign phase 4.
Battle of Senabris.
The Ptolemaic forces heavily outnumber the Seleucid Satrap forces. But have the Seleucids got a surprise up their sleeve?
Battle of Senabris.
The Ptolemaic forces heavily outnumber the Seleucid Satrap forces. But have the Seleucids got a surprise up their sleeve?
December 30, 2024 at 7:09 PM
5th Syrian War campaign phase 4.
Battle of Senabris.
The Ptolemaic forces heavily outnumber the Seleucid Satrap forces. But have the Seleucids got a surprise up their sleeve?
Battle of Senabris.
The Ptolemaic forces heavily outnumber the Seleucid Satrap forces. But have the Seleucids got a surprise up their sleeve?
Hanukkah is most often associated with the victory of the Hasmoneans over the Seleucids.
Yet starting in the medieval period, another figure, not mentioned in the 2 books of Maccabees or any earlier Jewish works, is associated with Hanukkah: Judith!
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Yet starting in the medieval period, another figure, not mentioned in the 2 books of Maccabees or any earlier Jewish works, is associated with Hanukkah: Judith!
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December 25, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Hanukkah is most often associated with the victory of the Hasmoneans over the Seleucids.
Yet starting in the medieval period, another figure, not mentioned in the 2 books of Maccabees or any earlier Jewish works, is associated with Hanukkah: Judith!
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Yet starting in the medieval period, another figure, not mentioned in the 2 books of Maccabees or any earlier Jewish works, is associated with Hanukkah: Judith!
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as far as I can tell, high-church reforms to Zoroastrianism under the late Seleucids had led to a breakdown in the religious order which led to widespread conversion to sort of vanilla Abrahamism. then the more traditionalist Parthians tries to reverse many of the reforms and also failed.
there had been an attempt by the Seleucids to "Hellenize" Zoroastrianism, which in practice meant trying to superimpose a bunch of misconceptions Plato had about Babylonian religion on top of Mazdaism. this led to a serious breakdown in the religious order.
June 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
as far as I can tell, high-church reforms to Zoroastrianism under the late Seleucids had led to a breakdown in the religious order which led to widespread conversion to sort of vanilla Abrahamism. then the more traditionalist Parthians tries to reverse many of the reforms and also failed.