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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2013, 11:15:48 AM »
I take my hat off to you :o.
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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2013, 01:50:37 PM »
Loving the look of it Frank. :-*

The dice idea is inspired. ;D

 I'll be up for buying a copy when you have them ready.
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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2013, 03:55:53 PM »
I'm interested! Contact me if you need a graphic designer to do some work for you.

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2013, 05:28:36 PM »
Wowser!

Great report! I love little scenes like this. Can you tell us how you made that great backdrop?

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2013, 06:18:00 PM »
Wowser!

Great report! I love little scenes like this. Can you tell us how you made that great backdrop?

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2013, 08:45:35 PM »
Thanks all for the kind words and support.

I'll be up for buying a copy when you have them ready.

I'll hold you to that Nick!!  lol

Great report! I love little scenes like this. Can you tell us how you made that great backdrop?

That I have to leave up to Christian - but it is a great little piece and perfect for a quick fight.
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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2013, 09:59:37 PM »
Ooh, glad you all like it! The game is a real blast, too. Frank's been working on this for years. The pit: It just so happens I took some WIP pics, which are linked below...





The columns are from a Hirst Arts kit I procured long ago, one of the Egyptian ones, but it fit :) A hex was printed off an internet generator and drawn on to the bottom layer of foam.

The statue is a 54mm Roman figure from Eureka... not sure if they still sell them though.

As you can see it still isn't completely painted, so you will see it progress a little more in Frank's next update!

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2013, 10:25:34 PM »
Looks pretty awesome - my buddy has been teasing me about building a Gladiator Ludus for some time now --- I was going to knock out some simple rules, but if I could save some time, I'd be definitely interested.

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #23 on: March 15, 2013, 01:52:13 AM »
Is that the roar of the crowd, yelling,
"play test, play test!!" lol
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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #24 on: March 15, 2013, 03:39:02 AM »
I tried an early version of the rules and it was pretty good then. Be exciting to try the updated one! :)
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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #25 on: March 15, 2013, 04:42:09 AM »
I tried an early version of the rules and it was pretty good then. Be exciting to try the updated one! :)

By all means PP we'll have to have a game soon - there is always room for gladiatrices.  :)

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #26 on: March 15, 2013, 05:03:31 AM »
By all means PP we'll have to have a game soon - there is always room for gladiatrices.  :)

Sounds good :)

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #27 on: March 15, 2013, 06:01:05 AM »
You guys need to arrange those playtests quickly so that rest of us can get access to the game as well :D

Thanks for the wip shots of the ludus Christian, will be great to see it finished although it looked really good on those game pics already. How big are the individual hexes? And is that playing area just perfect for two gladiators? Would, for example, two pairs need lots of more space?

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #28 on: March 15, 2013, 08:09:15 PM »
Great AAR, great scenery and great sounding rules - look forward to hearing more.

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Re: Gladiator bout: Drusix vs Lyphades
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2013, 09:14:52 PM »
How big are the individual hexes? And is that playing area just perfect for two gladiators? Would, for example, two pairs need lots of more space?

You can see in the pictures the hexes are a little bigger than the gladiator's bases.

The rules are not based on a certain hex size - what ever looks nice is good.

Base type (hex, round or square) is unimportant for that matter as well.

To be honest this particular arena is maybe a single hex too short - otherwise it would be the perfect size and all that is needed to play the rules.

BotS is not actually designed to fight more than 2 gladiators at the same time. It is the inherent problem of simulating a man on man duel in detail - it just can't be done effectively. In reality gladiators of any worth would most likely have fought one on one and condemned criminals, POWs etc may well have fought a "grand melee". Those types of combats are out of the scope of these rules.

You could run simultaneous individual combats though and if that was the case you would need double the space for sure.  :)

 

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