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Sunday, 20 February 2022

The 'Immortals" first game


Images of the big Ancients game we played today. Figures from the Collections of Brian Phillips and myself . We used the "To the Strongest ' rules by Simon Miller. Polybian Roman Vs Imperial Selucid/Successors. There were 5 gamers playing (Andy, Brian, Nichol, Peter and I). Table was a 12 by 6 and there was probably about 1.5k figures in total. The game finished as a draw with the Romans taking the centre but Successors winning the flanks. I think if there was another turn it would have been a Roman defeat.
Massive Polybian army. With Roman, Italian cavalry and Numidian Elephants on the flanks.


The Successors. With heavy and light cavalry and Elephants on the flanks.




The epic struggle in the centre.



My Allied Italian allies first game.




 A brilliant day and after years of collecting the figures Brian and I were delighted to see it all arrayed on the table. 

My thanks to Nichol Murray for organising such a great day.

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11 comments:

  1. Der Alte Fritz20 February 2022 at 16:02

    Epic! A cast of thousands that would make Hollywood proud. I’ve never seen so many pikes in a game.

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  2. (Kym) + Warburton + (Classic40K) 20 February 2022 at 17:40

    Brilliant! Very impressive.

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  3. Chris Hahn21 February 2022 at 05:04

    Seconded and third-ed(?) . . . A tremendous display and achievement. Color me green with envy.

    If I may inquire, how long did the wargame take? Did your group find the rules easy? Did your group draft any scenario rules?

    What's next?

    Cheers,
    Chris

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  4. Saxondog21 February 2022 at 05:09

    Thank you everyone. Comments much appreciated.


    Chris,the game started at 1 and finished about 6 o'clock. We ran out of time and I think one other hour would have had the Macedonians winning outright.

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  5. Colin Davidson21 February 2022 at 06:42

    Spectacular 😲

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  6. Colin Davidson21 February 2022 at 06:43

    Spectacular 😲

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  7. Chris21 February 2022 at 15:05

    Such a superb looking game. All to rare for an ancients game to have that "grand manner" scale. Shame, since it is a such a wonderfully colourful period for epic play like this. Miller is certainly inspiring such big games. Well done.
    Cheers,
    Chris (Canada)

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  8. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)21 February 2022 at 15:29

    That is impressive to say the least David! Do you even sleep to get all these figures painted?

    Christopher

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  9. John Boadle24 February 2022 at 03:07

    Fantastic looking game. This is what a wargame of ancient battles should look like!

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  10. fireymonkeyboy12 April 2022 at 02:42

    Awesome inspiration. I'm just starting successors, and a buddy RepRoms. Something to shoot for here ;)

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  11. Rob2 May 2022 at 09:29

    Great looking game and nice to see Roman infantry deployed and fighting depth and so not outflanking the Successor phalanx as so often seems to be the case on the tabletop.

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