HAIL CAESAR AND OTHER GAMES

 

Here are photos of today's games played in Goulburn. The theme for the day was Ancients, so Ian, Steve and myself brought along my Romans and Steve's newly minted Celtic army. He has built up quite a force and we wanted to put them on the table and see how they went. So we set up a Hail Caesar game. The Celts threw themselves at the Romans. They pushed the Roman right back but then the Romans rallied and beat them off. A bad morale roll by one Celtic player (Ian) saw a big chunk of the Celtic force on the Roman right flee. In the Center Celtic naked fanatics surged forward and hit a lonely unit of Auxilia. The fanatics had masses of dice and hit hard. It looked like curtains for the Auxilia but the Gods favored the Auxilia and they fought like heroes (nine hits on them and they rolled nine saving scores!) They then slammed back into the fanatics who crumbled and fled. That Auxilia unit will receive a unit laurel and free wine for a year for that effort. On the left of their line the Romans did not do as well. Not only could none of their skirmishers or Legion hurled javelins hit the broad side of a barn but one cohort fought like babies and got destroyed by charging Celtic cavalry. The cavalry crashed through and ran into the second line of Auxilia and smashed them as well ( I reckon something must have been in the food of those Romans for them fight as pathetically as they did). Having broken two Roman units the Celtic cavalry was pretty well spent and when a fresh Auxilia unit hit them they disintegrated. The First cohort held the center of the Roman line. These veterans has suffered from the skirmishing of the Gaul chariots and got hit hard by masses of Celts. They got pushed back but hung on. At that point both sides were pretty well exhausted and the game ended. The Romans were badly battered and had suffered heavy casualties but they held the line.

 

There were three other ancient games being played: Late Romans against Huns, Romans against a Phalanx and Late Romans versus Sarmatians.

 

 The Celtic horde - all fired up and ready to slaughter Romans

The Romans await the surging wild torrent of blood crazed savages rushing towards them

  

 

 The warriors crash into the Roman line

The Roman Scorpion had deployed out to the front where it had shot at the Celts and inflicted some damage. When the time came for it to withdraw it refused to do so - every one always said Quintus was a stubborn old bugger. Inevitably the Scorpion was overrun and Quintus and his crew were slain.

The Celts crashed into the right of the Roman line and pushed it back, but the line held and hit back causing the Celts there to flee in disarray.

 The Celtic chariots race forward keen to get at the Romans

 

 The chariots threw their javelins and did some damage to the Roman first cohort

 The game ends with the Romans badly battered but still holding their lines

In one of the other games the Phalanx advances on the Romans

A delightful little vignette that was part of the Phalanx versus Romans game with an elephant having fun with an unfortunate Roman

 

Late Romans Line up to do battle with the Huns

 

 

EVIL WIZARD

Here is my latest Reaper figure - this one is Orson Lugrum Evil Wizard. The figure has a lot of character and was a pleasure to paint. I like Orson's little friend emerging from the pouch.

The next plastic Impetvs project

The Vikings sold.. next project will be a Norman Impetvs army..It will be a bit more than 300 points ..so far   so good  some WiP here . and the rest may be found at

The Norman Impetvs Project

Last Sunday in Goulburn

was an Impetus affair, with two games LIR vs Sarmatianans. and the one I lplayedin Normans against Vikings .The Normans won and following the pics you should see why..

so to see it all go to 

The Goulburn Valiant Stormers 17th February

SUNDAY'S WARGAMES

 Here are some photos from our groups games played on Sunday. There were three games played. A game set in a modern African country with one force attempting to capture a bridge and another attempting to stop them. The figures used in this were 28mm and the vehicles die-cast metal models, mostly Solido. There was a glorious big Hail Caesar game with two Successor armies battling it out and nice WW2 game using Command Decision rules. We all had a good day.

CANCON 2013

CanCon Australia's premier wargames convention was held over the Ausralia Day weekend 26-28 January. As usual hundreds of gamers attended and thousands of visitors came along to watch or buy from the multitude of trade stands. I ran my Isandlwana game which attracted some 40 players over three days and won the most popular participation game of the convention, which was a nice surprise. There were 650 Zulu figures and 48 British and NNC figures.

Here is my Zulu game. It represented the battle of Isandlwana. I had designed the game to be a quick moving easy to play participation game. The mountain was there for the spectacle effect and did look good.

 The British player looks pensively on as the Zulu Impi advances towards him.

 Getting close to the camp - for the British players it has turned into a desperate fight for survival.

 Steady lads and pick your mark!

 The camp and mountain. 

The camp was out of bounds as far as the game went, but it looked grand.

 One of those moments when you could use a few more friends.

My Zulu game won the trophy for most popular participation game - a really nice surprise.

Another great participation game was Peking 1900 with hordes of boxers attempting to storm the embassies in Peking. This was a magnificent game played over three days on two table with beautiful scratch built embassies and a magnificent wall. 1000 painted figures were used in the game. The boxers managed to burn down the French and Japanese embassies and stormed the British embassy, but were put to flight by the timely arrival of the relief column on day three.

 Another participation game was this Franco Prussian War game using masses of very nicely painted 28mm figures. Blackpowder rules were used.

 The throng doing their shopping.

 A well run Napoleonic naval game

This was an excellent table made up of hex tiles - very impressive. The game was a Soviet invasion of Western Europe mid 1980s.

 A 6mm game battling though a city using Spearhead rules

 Lots and lots of board games and card games

 A Wars of the Roses game being played using Hail Caesar rules

 A WW1 air warfare game - great models - excellent Zepplin

 These were very impressive! Very large radio controlled tanks that simulated firing guns using strobe lights, recorded hits with computer chips and were wonderful to watch maneuvering about on a big table

 Large numbers playing Magic card games

 A keenly fought AWGR game

Hundreds of gamers playing in tournaments of all types - Bolt Action, FOG, FOGR, DBA, DBR, DBMM, FOW, Warhammer, 40K, War Machine to many to recall all of them.