Tonight we had our first crack for the first time at Hail Caesar. We fought a skirmish, set somewhere in Northern Italy, between a Flavian force of legionaries and auxiliaries, and a Vittelian ambush consisting of tough British and German auxiliaries, and a unit of armed gladiators. The figures depicted around 3000 troops on each side.
Above are the 2 Flavian Generals and their forces. I could not fail to notice that one of the Roman commanders bore a strong resemblance to another illustrious Roman General:
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| Dr. Simon |
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| Scipio Africanus the Elder |
His co-commander was Chrispus. Their forces were deployed with the legionaries marching along the road in two columns, with cavalry and light infantry scouting ahead, and auxiliaries on their left wing (below).
The Vitellians were commanded by Ianicus (not shown). His ambushing forces were hidden behind a low ridge and in an olive grove (below). The gladiators are at the front, on the left, and the cavalry are in the background.
Tomorrow night I'll write an account of the battle which, it has to be said, was a blast.
7 comments:
Good looking set up!
The figures and terrain look awesome!
Lovely looking battle!
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on HC. Based on my reading of BP I think it might become one of favourites for ancients.
Regards
Matt
makes a change from me being compared to:
a) Ross Kemp
b) Phil Collins
c) Zippy
Dr Simon
Uncanny resemblance! :-)
Nice one, HC is a great set of rules, Your terrain and minis look great too.
Steve.
Looks realy nice ! Looking forward to the full AAR:)
Might be nice if you could share the scenario, and how you classed the units.
Please have a go with my Punic War scenarios that my gaming group have run for our HC games. You can fing them at my blog as .gif files or as .pdf at our club forum: http://www.stockholmwargaming.se/plank/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1244&sid=830330d51b86425574e63f8193e57b78
Best regards Dalauppror
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