Great looking table and figures! The support rules are really the key to the game. Rather than reduce the support dice you might consider given some forms of Barbarians a higher shock die count which will give them a better chance to break the Roman line on first contact.
Great pics - beautifully painted figures on lovely terrain.
Best wishes
Giles
8 October 2011 at 06:48
We played a Hail Caesar game tonight, using my Early Imperial Romans, and some of Dr Simon's Germans. It was a battle between revolting Batavian auxiliaries led by Civilis, and loyal auxiliaries and legionaries. I won't cover it in much depth, because it was a trial run and we plan to run it again next week, after which I'll do a write up. Pic's courtesy of Dr Simon's camera phone.
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Above; concerned legionaries watch the advance of therevolting Germans, from the relatve safety of their watchtower (one of Paul Darnell's).
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Some of Dr Simon's freshly rebased Germans.
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A veritable phalanx of auxiliaries advance towards a single line of auxiliaries. The support rules are very important, and supported units had a big edge, winning almost all the combats. We debated removing the extra dice for supporting units, in favour of a bonus on the dice roll for units losing combats. May try that next week...
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Above, a whole phalanx of German bodybuilders, hits the thin red line. A unit led by the war leader broke through the central legionary cohort, and disordered their second line.
Finally, below, a somewhat blown alae of Praetorian cavalry charged a Batavian Cohort in the rear, but the stalwart Dutchmen still managed to drive them off!
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It was an entertaining, friendly game; HC worked out well. I think the rules will work well for my projected campaign.
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Close this window Jump to comment formSimply inspiring!
5 October 2011 at 06:36
Looks like a great game Simon. HC are fun rules for large barbarians vs Romans games.
5 October 2011 at 08:11
Great looking table and figures! The support rules are really the key to the game. Rather than reduce the support dice you might consider given some forms of Barbarians a higher shock die count which will give them a better chance to break the Roman line on first contact.
5 October 2011 at 11:47
Very nice report with some fine painted figures on the table!
Greetings
Peter
http://peterscave.blogspot.com/
5 October 2011 at 20:06
Thanks chaps!
jmilesr, it's the rear support that we aren't keen on; we are thinking that we might replace it with a bonus on rolls when one is beaten in combat.
5 October 2011 at 20:10
Marser, Chatten or Cherusker??
Bloody nice looking game...
Cheers
paul
5 October 2011 at 20:30
Not sure Paul; they were bloody revolting, anyhow! ;-) Simon
5 October 2011 at 20:38
Very nice pictures !
I got to play quite many HC games and we have never felt that the support rules/bonuses have been to large.
Just feel right/historical to keep your units together to recive the extra support dice.
Looking forward to see and read about your next game.
Best regards Dalauppror
5 October 2011 at 20:50
Great pics - beautifully painted figures on lovely terrain.
Best wishes
Giles
8 October 2011 at 06:48