Late last year we played a couple of games of Hail Caesar to get back into the period.

In this game Goldie and I were Romans v Alan and Rob’s Carthaginians.

Below are Romans. Goldie on the right and me on the left.

The Enemy are below with Rob on the left and Alan on the right.

These look gorgeous!

Centre of line with Elephants, Warbands and heavy infantry with skirmishers out front.

Waiting them my staunch legionnaires! We deployed the units 2 deep…..which we need to reconsider as the Auxilia Infantry can get easily beaten up!.

Battle starts with the war of the skirmishers…..ours had longer ranges!

One elephant lost its skirmish cover so it started taking wounds.

Crunch! Warbands and Elephants go in. The Warbands get 9 attacks when charging and in their first combat reroll all misses to hit. Coupled with Elephants, the Romans needs to make above average saves!

And they did! Holding on.

Couple of rounds in and one unit of legionnaires has popped……but the Warbands and Elephants are being worn down rapidly.

The Romans have the centre!

Shame about their flank though. I had auxilia infantry and cavalry on this flank…..the heavy infantry and mercenary hoplites made short work of them.

End of game and Alan has won this flank…. center still contested but call this an Alan win.

On the other half of the battle where I took some photos, none of which are good enough to share…Goldies legionnaire outfought Rob’s foot…however Rob’s cavalry were very slow to get moving but by games end were getting into combat and there were a lot of them! So give this a marginal Roman win.

Well that was fun….rusty on rules but they are getting clearer. This was the second game in a couple of weeks and will be playing a few more this year. More armies are being painted so a few Macedonian themed armies will be making appearance, and Goldie has both Republican and Middle Imperial Roman armies to paint!

Until next time.. Terry out.