Paul and I have been having a couple of games on a wednesday mornings,using my "pom-pom" rules,so far we have been playing only ancients but hopefully we can get to other periods over the next few weeks.
This week we are playing a Macedonian vs Persian game,with Alexander's army having to "re-claim" a temple dedicated to Zeus,which the Persians have desicrated!
This is the table set up,Macedonians on the left,Paul has decided that he would command the Persians.
This is the Temple,that the game is centered around.
The persian army-very colourful,and includes scythed chariots,elephants and mercenary greeks,and lots of cavalry.
The Macedonian army.with Alexander on the small hill-will he lead his companion cavalry forward himself??(no chance!!)
I have been painting two WW1 armies-German and British,and intend playing the very early part of this horrendous war-because I am stretching the limits of history, I am calling it World War John!! If finances permit I might get a French army,just to bring a sense of historical reality into my games.
Both armies,Infantry and machine guns-ignore the Tanks(a moment of madness!!)
Cavalry and artillery.I am having a bit of trouble deciding rules for ranges and movement,but should be up and running soon.
Looks like it’s going to be a fun tussle over the temple. And you are prodigious! Another collection painted and ready to go. You’ll probably find that if your infantry are cautiously advancing half a dippedy then rifles effective at 1 dippedy and probably mgs letting rip at 2 dippedies? You might have to use some sort of artillery suppression to reduce the targets firing. Cheers, Chris
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris-will take any advice on board for WWJ! We had a good old tussle over the temple,see blog for write up.
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