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Offline Irregular Wars Nic

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Dux Bellorum - (yet a third) One for the Annals
« on: August 27, 2018, 08:43:19 PM »

The men of Ulster stood facing the Romanised British host. They knew the British king was young and inexperienced, and that their own swords were tried, tested, and thirsty for more blood. The coming battle was not going to last long. Behind the British lines, smoke tricked into the sky in thin wisps from the British village. The Irishmen could practically taste their new slaves.

The full write up is on the blog: http://irregularwars.blogspot.com/2018/08/dux-bellorum-one-for-annals.html. Safe to say, it didn't exactly go as planned.

« Last Edit: November 17, 2018, 07:53:23 PM by Irregular Wars Nic »

Offline wkeyser

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Re: Dux Bellorum - One for the Annals
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2018, 09:05:27 AM »
Great Blog and damn you now I am looking at 10mm pendraken and Dux Bellorum.

William

Offline rampantlion

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Re: Dux Bellorum - One for the Annals
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2018, 02:24:16 PM »
That's some great stuff!  Entertaining write up and pretty game...thanks for sharing.

Allen

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Re: Dux Bellorum - One for the Annals
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2018, 04:44:39 PM »
“ Stand up for the Ulstermen “ ,  great batrep on the blog , I really must get around to trying these rules. Reports like this should motivate me , well done 👍.

Offline Irregular Wars Nic

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Re: Dux Bellorum - One for the Annals
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2018, 02:30:47 PM »
Thanks guys. Dux is a really fun wee game. Between every other project, it doesn't grace the table enough, but everyone it does it is s really good evening. And 10mm really is the perfect scale for it.  :D

Offline wkeyser

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Re: Dux Bellorum - One for the Annals
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2018, 06:18:30 AM »
Great blog, another one to inspire. I went directly to the Pendraken website and ordered enought for two armies for Dux Bellorum. I have had the rules as pdf for years and always like the ideas but your blog inspired me to jump in.

Doing more figs per larger base. 12-13 for Shield wall nice two rank line and the Warriors will be 15-20 figs more irregular. Cav will be about 8 for formed and less for skirmishers.

Thanks for the inspiration.

William

Offline Ethelred the Almost Ready

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Re: Dux Bellorum - One for the Annals
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2018, 09:24:05 PM »
Thanks for posting this. I might have to have another look at Dux Bellorum.  Last played this years ago.

Offline Irregular Wars Nic

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Re: Dux Bellorum - (another) One for the Annals
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2018, 09:10:16 PM »

... and in something of a followup game, please do have a look at my martyrs Romano-British.

http://irregularwars.blogspot.com/2018/10/my-noble-martyrs-romano-british-took-to.html

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Re: Dux Bellorum - (another) One for the Annals
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2018, 02:07:21 AM »
Terrific looking game and AAR.  Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Dux Bellorum - (another) One for the Annals
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2018, 05:30:03 PM »
I liked your leadership tokens.  Were they old coins?
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Re: Dux Bellorum - (another) One for the Annals
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2018, 06:46:51 PM »
Dux Bellorum is a seriously underated game ;-)
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Offline Irregular Wars Nic

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Re: Dux Bellorum - (another) One for the Annals
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2018, 09:03:01 PM »
I liked your leadership tokens.  Were they old coins?

It's probably at the inappropriate end of the malleable scale of ethical numismatics... but on the other hand, they were cheaper than buying tokens.

Offline Atheling

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Re: Dux Bellorum - (another) One for the Annals
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2018, 07:37:41 AM »
 8) 8) 8)

Great stuff. I'm yet to play the Dux Bellorum rules as of yet....

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Re: Dux Bellorum - (another) One for the Annals
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2018, 09:23:39 PM »
8) 8) 8)

Great stuff. I'm yet to play the Dux Bellorum rules as of yet....

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Oohhhhhh, you should. A really enjoyable gaming experience.

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Re: Dux Bellorum - (yet a third) One for the Annals
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2018, 07:56:37 PM »

We played another very enjoyable game of Dux Bellorum this week. This time, it was Angles vs the Ulstermen (a foreshadowing of the next 1600 years?).

https://irregularwars.blogspot.com/2018/11/dux-bellorum-beyond-foyle.html


We'd never played a game between two warrior armies before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. A lot of wild charges probably. Well, we got that sure enough. Happily, although both forces were warrior-based, they were actually quite distinct...