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.