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Author Topic: El Cid After Action Report  (Read 2095 times)

Offline Rogerc

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El Cid After Action Report
« on: October 29, 2018, 03:13:21 PM »
Had a cracking game using mine and chum Jerry's El Cid collections and Hail Caesar rules. Full writie up and pictures on the blog.

https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/2018/10/hail-cid-valencia-aar.html
IMG_20181024_184011 by Roger Castle, on Flickr
IMG_1258 by Roger Castle, on Flickr
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My blog gapagnw.blogspot.co.uk

Offline DintheDin

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Re: El Cid After Action Report
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2018, 04:10:05 PM »
An awesome sight! So colorfoul armies! And so well-painted! And you had to choose one out of eight El Cids! Fantastic!
The whole table is a real eye-candy! And the monastery! Oooh!
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Offline Belisarius

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Re: El Cid After Action Report
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2018, 08:09:55 PM »
Great lay out and cracking figures, it must have been a great game . I was looking forward to seeing Miss Loren in miniature btw , 😃 .

Offline Lord Raglan

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Re: El Cid After Action Report
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2018, 08:21:31 PM »
Nice one Roger, what a spectacle  :-*

If you are looking for a different set of rules to try, I would highly recommend Soldiers of God, written by Warwick Kinrade for the El Cid period.

Gareth

Offline Rogerc

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Re: El Cid After Action Report
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2018, 08:31:43 PM »
Thanks very much guys.

Dinthe din I always love your feedback.

Belisarius, Miss Loren is there, she is in the bckground of one of the El Cid bases about halfway through the post. Painted by Jerry for hsi army.

Lord Raglan, I will keep those in mind. For now we have just got a large section of our group to play a game without black powder and Hail Caesar agrees with most of them. Certainly one to consider though thank you.

Offline Romark

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Re: El Cid After Action Report
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2018, 10:33:18 PM »
Great looking game :)
Love the Ben Yusef lotR minis conversion :-*


Offline Rogerc

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Re: El Cid After Action Report
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2018, 08:40:21 PM »
Cheers omark it is a fantastic littlevignette isnt it.

Offline Smoke Frog

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Re: El Cid After Action Report
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2018, 10:51:46 PM »
Very cinematic report, and some beautiful work! I especially liked your El Cid model (reminded me of Charlton Heston) and this guy:



Well done sir!