Thomas
Spanish Tercio
One morning on the Spanish Road in Flanders
Sunday, August 12, 2012
HAHGS Sunday Game - July-29-2012
After my well-deserved vacation, my friends Peter and Greg met as usual at our local gaming store the Time Machine for an ancients game between Peter's Late Roman army and Greg's Macedonians.
Peter C. appropriately placed under the FIGHT! poster.
Peter's Late Roman cavalry
Peter's Late Roman Goth mercenaries
Greg H.'s Macedonian pike horde
Greg obviously not being impressed much by the Late Roman army.
Bring it on!
Greg's impressive pike battle line
Peter's opposing battle line
Let the game begin! Peter's light cavalry and medium cavalry passed the test and is allowed 1 full move
The Macedonians are not afraid to face the Late Romans
Greg's feared horseshoe attack pincer move, with which he tries to crush the Roman army today on this battle field
Elefantos crash into the Roman cavalry...ouch
The Goth battle line is smashing into the Macedonian pike units
The very ground is shaking by the mere power of the two clashing units!! I felt the tremor throughout my entire body! It was fearsome, I tell you.
The Macedonian left wing has lightened a bit
Heavy fighting continues to the right wing and mid section
This game was to get a bit more fluid with the Black Powder rules, and we all noticed that we need to play it , not only more often, but more so important in less long time intervals to not forget so much of the rules each time, lol. It was a great game and we had a lot of fun. It was about time to get back into gaming again for me, although I was a mere spectator and photographer.
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Nice pics and great tongue in cheek commentary, Thomas. If we play HC with regularity, we should come up with some less obtrusive markers I think.
ReplyDeleteNice to see the ancients getting on the table, such well done units. Thomas, when do we get the 17th Century stuff out for a game?
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter. I agree on the markers. I would like to make use of actually figures as casualty counters with perhaps 1 casualty figure per casualty counter and having numbers added to it from 1 - 6 pending on the unit's sustainability. Then simply turn the counter to the appropriate count. For shaken units, use markers with shields and weapons on the ground, and perhaps for disordered units simply turn stands in a different direction and / or scatter the stands around a bit, or come up with an appropriate marker as well, which I would prefer. Perhaps a stand with 3 figures running about helter skelter.
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Good ideas on the markers, and similar to my own - abandoned shields and/or weapons, casualty figures, etc. Of course, Joe, Barry and I already have a generous supply of rocks and animals to use as markers as well; one advantage there is that they are not period specific!
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