Wednesday 13 February 2013

Somewhere near Utica...

Somewhere near Utica, a Pompeian army under Cato (left), with local Numidian allies under Juba (some shown in foreground), faces a smaller but more confident Caesarian force (right).


Below, elephants trot past the city gates.  It's a short but a glorious life, in the elephant corp!  I got to use all my elephant casualty markers by 9 PM.



Above, the very numerous and colourful Numidian city militia and hordes of light horse, wisely hung back to let the Romans sort it our between themselves.  Below, Cato confers with a subordinate.  The newly-raised Pompeian legions turned out to be surprisingly effective force...



Above a Pompeian cohort of inferior troops, charged by superior Caesarian foes, and having failed to counter charge,  pulls off something of a coup by dint of expert dice rolling!  Several wins by the aggressive (and phenomenally lucky) Cato drove a deep wedge into the Caesarian lines.



Eventually they broke through (above) and subsequently turned, ready to roll up the Caesarian line (below).  Although there were still a lot of Caesarians on the table, we felt that they would now need to retire from the field.


The game, played with a couple of local opponents, Nigel and Jay, proved to be a very enjoyable and relaxed play-test of my rules.  I've taken away a bunch of new ideas and will tweak the rules, for another run through, hopefully next week.


15 comments:

DeanM said...

Incredible amount of beautifully painted and based Romans! Awesome work. Dean

War Minister Crittumbo said...

Beautiful troops, and good AAR.

Bluewillow said...

sweet, loved the numidians just standing around!!!!!

Cyrus said...

Fantastic looking game Simon but looks a bit too green for North Africa!

Dalauppror said...

Greate pictures !!!

Thanks for a very nice AAR !

Best regards Michael

Handgrenadealien said...

Very nicely presented all round Simon. Forgive me for pointing this out, but shouldn't you be painting phalangites:)
Regards HGA.

valleyboy said...

That's pretty spectacular stuff Simon, real eye candy

BigRedBat said...

Thanks very much chaps! It is nice to have the Caesarians out again, after a good long break.

Cyrus, I have a plan to upgrade the green, green fields of Africa to something a little dustier, in a month or so, when the weather is better. HGA, don't worry I'll be back to them soon...

Cheers, Simon

Anonymous said...

Thats a great looking collection of figures. The rules look to be grid based? I've been after something like that for ages, will you be releasing them when they are done?

Galpy said...

wow that looks so cool that amount of beautifully painted figures on one table its just amazing

Hobbyworker said...

That is alot of miniatures....
looks great

BigRedBat said...

Cheers chaps!

Mark, yes I am getting them together with a view to publishing them once I'm really happy with them. Still some way off...

Prufrock said...

Good stuff, Simon! Great to see the rules getting a work out :)

Phil said...

Fabulous pictures and minis...just fabulous!
Phil.

BigRedBat said...

Cheers, chaps. Hopefully another game, next week...