Republican Romans v Celtiberians

[Penda]

Full report over on my blog if anyone has a few minutes to fill.

[ochoin]

To get the obvious out the way, that's a nice looking game.
Well done.

But to more important matters: the interchangeable 3 lines.
Your solution: brilliant. All your own work or did you get the idea elsewhere?

In my experience, rule sets ignore this as too hard to do on the table top eg Field of Glory.

My one caveat is this: Romans are too hard to beat & this might make them close to unbeatable?
I know you can argue this is historically accurate but it's also a game.

donald

donald

[Penda]

Thank you Donald on both counts. I confess it came to me out of the blue while I was painting the day before the game. You know how the mind wanders when you are blocking in colours...

[ochoin]

The three lines business is one of those difficult issues wargamer's/rule writers face. Include in this how to field Napoleon's Old Guard without hopelessly skewing a battle* and what do with the Covenanters' Horse**?

My mind is wandering now.....

I'm thinking (if there's no copyright) if I can graft that onto the FoG rules we use.

Donald

Answers: * never field them in any game and ** hide them as far away from the enemy as possible

[Penda]

Feel free to use my idea or even improve on it.

[grizzlymc]

Your armies are a joy to behold.

[bangorstu]

Romans weren't that hard to beat.... I mean it did happen quite a lot. They won more than they lost, but still.....

The problem is of course they are the ones providing us with most of our written record.

As others have mentioned, a very interesting way of depicting the triple acies but I would perhaps put a morale penalty on the Romans for having to depend on the Triarii - since they weren't really meant to do much fighting - and definitely put a hefty one on them if the Triarii are defeated or start taking significant casualties.

I get the impression, rightly or wrongly, they were a bit like the Old Guard Grenadiers....

I have read, and again have little evidence of this, their main function was to keep the other two lines fighting - hence the long pointy sticks to provide added encouragement...

[Tim Hall]

I do not have anything like the knowledge to comment oh the historical science of warfare in this period, but it certainly looked like a spankingly good brawl, between lots of lovely looking toy soldiers. Terrific battle report and great set of pictures.