Slitherine’s latest ancient warfare game now has a demo. 240 megabytes of spear-chucking goodness.

So far so good. The campaign battles have the typical Slitherine “hands-off” approach to command except now you can give a few orders if your command bar is full. The battle set-up screen seems little different from the one in Spartan. It remains to be seen if the battle-after-battle campaign will have any of the pull that the strategy game of its immediate cousin Rome: Total War does. (Slitherine’s serious conquer-the-world campaign is being saved for the next Legion game.)

Simple enough game. The battles are over much more quickly than the battles in Rome, but that might change with the full version and there are more troops on the ground.