Friday 17 October 2014

Roman Civil War,Pompey vs Caesar

Yesterday was a classic two game Thursday,against Brian in the morning and Paul at night-great stuff!!
I will just give a few photo's of Brian's great painted armies,instead of giving a narrative of both games-they were both good,taxing and exciting though.Brian is a prolific painter,and has completed both armies in a record time-see what you think...........




These three shots are from the morning game-very spectacular-it felt right and certainly looked right,with plenty of action from the word "go"-Brian is a very modest man,but he must be "chuffed" at the way these two armies look.


The night game against Paul,was a"rescue mission" game-the cohorts in the foreground have been "beset" by Gallic tribesmen,and Paul's objective was to rescue them,as well as beating Caesar's force-simple!!!




With a mixture of light troops,cavalry and Gallic troops,as well as the legions,the game was always going to be a fast and frantic affair-yes,you could say that!!!!



Who couldn't fail to be stirred by this sort of game?-we fought,exchanged lines,suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune(that's bad dice throws,to me and you!!) retired,came back in-wonderful wargaming-classic stuff!!

We are going to a new show,at Shildon,called "Stand To" on Sunday-we are putting on a demo game,using our 54mm plastic medieval figures,so should be good-if you are there,come over and have a chat-roll on Sunday.
We have recently "lost" two members,so are looking for new ones-any takers?

I must apologise for a couple of the photo's being "fuzzy"don't know what happened there-I was sober when I took them-honest!!













































8 comments:

  1. Excellent stuff - it's going to be a while before we can do a Roman Civil War. Jealous, I am.

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  2. Fantastic stuff Brian....but are you obsessed with the colour Yellow? Even your dice cup is Yellow! (yes I know mine is Pink) :)

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  3. Thanks Paul we have great plans for this period.Loads of scope for John to come up with more great Scenarios.

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  4. Well Dave the Colour is Vallejo Model Colour No 877 Gold Brown in a 17Ml bottle me Obsessed !! never there is a Stranglers Joke in this Post somewhere? See you tomorrow.

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  5. Hi Great looking miniature game. Are the minis 15mm? I might have missed the scale. It looks like some are the Donington 15mm. I love that companies miniatures. Anyhow great game! Take care Greyson in Va. USA

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    1. Hi Greyson,thanks for reading our blog-the figures are 28mm plastics!
      We only play 25/28mm games-old fashioned I guess!
      Please keep reading our blog and passing comments
      cheers,johnc(william)

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  6. Hi William, I also like the paint jobs you guys did. Can you tell me where you got the nice plastic miniatures? They make some great Romans and Gauls. I will keep an eye on your blog. I have my own blog if you like sci fi, Terminator wargame. I like your Confederate flag. Thanks from Dave in Virginia, USA

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    1. Yo Greyson-figs are from Warlord Games,Viktrix also do some-multi-part figs but worth the effort,for the price.
      johnc(william)

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