Punic Wars Revival!

[James Morris]

Somehow I got sidetracked from my 18th century Northwest Coast Americans by...Punic Wars.  Go figure.    My friend Sam wanted to play Saga: Age of Hannibal (great fun) and it kind of escalated into 'wouldn't it be cool to do a battle?'  Here's a few snaps from the action as Khemmitbaal's Carthaginians took on Consul Vetilius and his Roman legions in the wilds of Hispania using my own Midgard rules.

Full battle report and pics are on the blog here:
https://mogsymakes.net/2021/06/21/punic-wars-revival/

EDIT: faulty link replaced.  This one should work.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Great looking game.
Does this mean you will be returning to developing your Midgard rules?

[Mad Gadgeteer]

I keep trying to go to your blog, but I keep getting thefollowing.  You address is there though.

[Maniac]

The freehand painting on some of the shields looks fantastic.  Very nice stuff.

[Codsticker]

I keep trying to go to your blog, but I keep getting thefollowing.  You address is there though.

Yeah, I get a window asking me to log in.

[James Morris]

Great looking game.
Does this mean you will be returning to developing your Midgard rules?

Thanks Anthony!  Yes, hopefully.  The working year compounded by Covid has rather disrupted things.

[James Morris]

I keep trying to go to your blog, but I keep getting thefollowing.  You address is there though.

Thanks for spotting this! Newbie blog user error, I think I used the link to my editing page rather than the final blog page.  It’s been corrected in the original post - please let me know if it works!

[James Morris]

Yeah, I get a window asking me to log in.

See above - my mistake I think!    New link is now in the original post.

[Fremitus Borealis]

Those look great; I particularly love the shields!

[Mad Gadgeteer]

See above - my mistake I think!    New link is now in the original post.

Thanks!!!

Looks great!

[Hu Rhu]

Nice write up on the blog.  Can you give us an idea of how you got the manipluar sytem to work in the rules?

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

After my quick look (and comment) on the picture in your original post, I have now read the full battle report.  It will be interesting to see more of how your rules handle maniples and line relief for the Romans. This is an area many rules struggle with.

[Shahbahraz]

<snip>  It will be interesting to see more of how your rules handle maniples and line relief for the Romans. This is an area many rules struggle with.

Hardly surprising, as we have virtually no evidence for it, or how it worked. Indeed, we've got no more evidence that other armies didn't do something similar.

Given that the Romans seem to have been copyists rather than innovators, it would be more surprising if they hadn't adopted a system used elsewhere.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Hardly surprising, as we have virtually no evidence for it, or how it worked. Indeed, we've got no more evidence that other armies didn't do something similar.

Yes, but it is now an ancient's wargame trope.  I am quite sure a Greek phalanx didn't necessarily work the way we think it did, either. 

[Shahbahraz]

Yes, but it is now an ancient's wargame trope.  I am quite sure a Greek phalanx didn't necessarily work the way we think it did, either. 

AAAArrrrgghhh.. 'Othismos'  As you say, a wargamers trope now....