However, the "unknown" is a force of Sea Peoples, just landed & fighting on which side?
The dice will tell....
donald
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Peoples of the Sea
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Another Hail Caesar Bronze Age game - this time, Hittites are trying to repel a Mycenaean invasion.
However, the "unknown" is a force of Sea Peoples, just landed & fighting on which side?
The dice will tell....
donald
However, the "unknown" is a force of Sea Peoples, just landed & fighting on which side?
The dice will tell....
donald
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Ochoin
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16 Jan 2010, 04:00
Game over in a handy 2.5 hours. The Hittites got walloped. Interesting thing - the Sea Peoples did not get the '10' needed to activate & stayed motionless yet menacing. My two colleagues deployed & played with a possible hostile activation in mind so they certainly had an effect.
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Ochoin
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blacksmith
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blacksmith wrote:Are they based as per DBA?
Actually, they're based for Field of Glory - a rule set we've used for over 10 years. And now have replaced for Hail Caesar.
HC is very forgiving about basing as long as both armies base the same way.
I should say, that FoG is, ultimately, a bit tedious & HC I can already say, is quick, easy to learn & fun.
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Kaiphranos
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A good-looking bronze-age game, well done, donald ! 
And just to clarify in my own mind...having landed from those impressive ships, the Sea-Peoples simply stood by as the other two combatants laid to? Opportunistic, and possibly a very wise strategy!
And just to clarify in my own mind...having landed from those impressive ships, the Sea-Peoples simply stood by as the other two combatants laid to? Opportunistic, and possibly a very wise strategy!
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Minuteman
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Minuteman wrote:And just to clarify in my own mind...having landed from those impressive ships, the Sea-Peoples simply stood by as the other two combatants laid to? Opportunistic, and possibly a very wise strategy!
As I'm busy introducing the rules to my pals, I didn't play & merely umpired.
Having a devilish cast of mind, I decided to place the Sea Peoples on the table & announce they would, potentially, choose one side or the other. This would be based on a dice roll & once activated, I would control them with single-minded ferocity.
Each turn, both players threw a d10, needing a '10' to activate their potential allies. As it turned out, neither threw a '10', until the very last turn when the Mycenaeans activated them in the turn the Hittites fled. Too late to do anything.
TBH, earlier intervention would have skewed the game & I had no intention of doing much with them.
But their mere presence effected everything from deployment , to the urgency both players brought to the battle - win before the Sea Peoples came!
Lots of drama.
donald
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Ochoin
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ModeratorI realised that there was a topic here for this game, I was commanding the Hittites and they were reluctant to do much of anything in the game.
The screenshots already uploaded are fantastic, but here's a video battle report of the events of the day:
The screenshots already uploaded are fantastic, but here's a video battle report of the events of the day:
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