A Blog dedicated to my 3D Designs for Wargaming as well as Miniature painting. Generally a place to share my creativity with the Wargaming world.
So I spent the weekend relaxing watching blue rays and working on my Italian allies. Was having a pike of fun working on the shields for the first of my Italian allies for the Romans. I think they certainly look the part. The combination of mixed shield designs and the different tunic colours definitely make the allied units stand out from the Roman Maniples.
So on Saturday I finally got to play my first game of Hail Caesar ever though I've had the rules and figures since the rules first came out!
I played 2 games.
The first was against Rob and his Greeks. It was a nail bighter till the very last dice throw. The phalanx rule is just nasty. I keep winning the fights but only by 1 or 2 points which ment everything kept ending in ties.
Game 2 was against Cavins Samurais. This was a very interesting game as almost every unit in his army could shoot bows at long range as well as still put up a good fight. Unfortunately for Cavin I got across the board very fast with triple moves for both my divisions. This meant he got one turn of shooting before I charged him in the second turn. Although he put up a bit of a fight the Romans are certainly tougher than the Samurai in a stand up fight. The dice averaged out and the Romans came out in top by the end of turn 3.
Both very fun games and I can't wait till the next game. Meanwhile I managed to assemble more Itallian allies.
So after a very long break I'm back painting again. If you follow me on Facebook you will see that I painted up a 1000 points of Concord troops for gates of Antares and have been busily working on 300 points of troops for Hail Caesar. Here's a picture of a Roman unit that just needs basing.
