Hello my fellow peeps, our last game saw us go back to fighting a ancient battle using Hail Caesar rules for a good old fashioned set to. I have the usual AAR with photos on my blog if you wish to check I out please follow the link provided. Cheers :)
http://slimreidy1.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/carthaginian-and-roman-republican-clash.html
Here's a couple of photos of the action
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Hail Ceaser? A shaman with powerful weather-working spells, is it?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 July 2016, 10:58:44 AM
Hail Ceaser? A shaman with powerful weather-working spells, is it?
Ha ha, now that might be an idea for the next time :)
Nice report and piccies.
Cheers - Phil
Beautiful pair of armies and nice report!
Very nice.
Lovely looking armies and a nice battle report :)
Very nice, are they 10mm armies?
Very nice armies as usual - lovely looking table, wargaming as it should look.
Although I think you may have muddled your velites and triarii up and got the principes and hastati back to front :)
:-bd =D> :-bd
Quote from: Zippee on 07 July 2016, 05:13:07 PM
Very nice armies as usual - lovely looking table, wargaming as it should look.
Although I think you may have muddled your velites and triarii up and got the principes and hastati back to front :)
Probably have muddled them up, really couldn't remember which was which on looking back at the photos,only used the army once before and they are my dads, all I know really is they were Romans ha ha
Quote from: fred. on 07 July 2016, 04:04:31 PM
Very nice, are they 10mm armies?
Yes they are 10mm
Very nicely done, very nice indeed 8)
Quote from: slimreidy1 on 07 July 2016, 07:53:20 PM
.... they are my dads....
Gad, what a thought. One father was more than I needed!
Great AAR. Nice figures and set up, too.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 08 July 2016, 01:50:51 AM
Gad, what a thought. One father was more than I needed!
FK - an immaculately conceived juxtaposition.
Ooh that apostrophe can be a right little minx.
Republican Romans:
Velites - javelin armed skirmishers - out front.
Hastati - younger members of the heavy infantry. Mix of chest plate and mail. Armed with pila - first line.
Principes - experienced heavy infantry. Armed as above and formed second line.
Triarii - veterans - wore mail and carried a long thrusting spear. They formed the third line reserve. If a battle was going badly it was said to have gone to the Triarii.
Unless they're earlier Republican Roman in which case the velites are shieldless and have a spear plus javelins, the hastati might have pila and possibly a chest plate, the principes will have a spear and chest plate (possibly mail) and the triarii spear and plate or mail.
And except when they're later Republican Roman and hastati, principes and triarii are merged into identical all mail and pila cohorts
It's a constant evolution - we have 4 clear snapshots*, that's about it :)
*Which is approximately 4 clear snapshots more than we have for most ancient armies ;D
Clear: as if in written after the event through slightly rose tinted lenses, that were smeared in finest ghe and dipped in glitter, clear?
It's that or Caesarean propaganda and self-aggrandisement
Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 July 2016, 08:28:23 PM
Clear: as if in written after the event through slightly rose tinted lenses, that were smeared in finest ghe and dipped in glitter, clear?
Ghe ?
Lost on that one. :-\
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 09 July 2016, 06:03:29 AM
Ghe ?
Lost on that one. :-\
Cheers - Phil
Sorry, mistyped ghee! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee
Ghee, the stuff we no longer cook our curries in - staple to Indian cooking, also helps to prevent bloodloss by disabling arteries :)
It was never needed for curries; mainly snob value. Where it is useful is in korma cooking. If you've marinaded your meat, chances are there'll be moisture on the surface, and frying may turn to half-hearted stewing. Ghee can, however, be safely heated to a much higher temperature than butter or most neutral oils, so you'll get your caramelised surface to develop into a ravishing flavour.
I now declare this topic, derailed! <:-P =D> =O
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 July 2016, 06:59:57 AM
Sorry, mistyped ghee! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee
Ta, Will.
I was trying to figure out if it was a predictive text foul up.....And couldn't guess what it could be.
I've learned something this morning.....Never heard of ghee, until today.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: FierceKitty on 09 July 2016, 09:51:04 AM
It was never needed for curries; mainly snob value. Where it is useful is in korma cooking. If you've marinaded your meat, chances are there'll be moisture on the surface, and frying may turn to half-hearted stewing. Ghee can, however, be safely heated to a much higher temperature than butter or most neutral oils, so you'll get your caramelised surface to develop into a ravishing flavour.
Nope, base ingredient for cooking absolutely anything* in my wife's family is ghee, whatever you make the base masala from it's fried in ghee.
*well unless making sweets in which case everything is just reduced condensed milk - same effect on arteries :)
Oh and there's never any meat involved - why would you assume there was?
As I say, snob value. It's widely used because it's expensive and prestigious.
Nope - cultural value, it's what has always been used and thus what is still used in traditional families.
Explain the difference to me some day.
I can buy ghee locally for less than an equivalent amount of butter, where's the snob value?