Blood on the Sands **NEW** Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears...

[Furt]

Engle will return again under his new name Engle the Bearable.

      - the legend begins...

Looking forward to the pics - loving the live coverage.

You mean that you are playing Gladiators AND drinking beer while some of us are at work?
 

Don't worry Mason - revenge is sweet. Think of the denarii you are earning.  

[Malamute]

Breaking news!

Stavros the Grecian (Thraex) has just asked for Missio following a number of well executed displays by the Myrmillo Morganus the Autocrasus from Germania....

Sadly for Stavros the crowd were unimpressed by the sight of his ruptured spleen and his promising career was short lived....

Lanista Bibbles the Flos will be seen at the slave market next Tuesday morning spending coin on more slaves.

 

[Furt]

Sadly for Stavros the crowd were unimpressed by the sight of his ruptured spleen and his promising career was short lived....

Lanista Bibbles the Flos will be seen at the slave market next Tuesday morning spending coin on more slaves.

 

  - poor Stavros and Bibbles. The crowd just don't react to a good spleen these days... 

Chin up Bibbles - plenty more fodder where Stavros came from.

I think next time you should offer this as a Pay-Per-View event!! 

[Mason]

Roll up!
Roll up!

Finest slaves from all corners of the Empire.....

Getcha slaves here!



Bibbles: Seems like you will be after those reinforcements sooner than you first thought.
 

'Av sum a dese ones.
Proper lucky slaves, dats wot deese are.
None o' that cheap dodgy rubbish like ya got from Mama Mute.
 

[OSHIROmodels]

Well, that was disappointing 

I have consequently rolled up a new star of the Ludus......

Loath and dull, he's called Manuel and he's from Barcelona    

Shitest Ludus going 

cheers

James

[philhendry]

Go on, I'll bite...  How did you make the arena floor?

[OSHIROmodels]

With a laser (sticks little finger in side of mouth)

Should have some standard sizes ready for selling very soon (ten hex oval and ten hex rectangle etc).

cheers

James

[Furt]

Loath and dull, he's called Manuel and he's from Barcelona    

Shitest Ludus going 

     Basil?

Well he's smart enough to know being a gladiator is a dumb idea! 

Should have some standard sizes ready for selling very soon (ten hex oval and ten hex rectangle etc).

It looks great James - nice compact size too.

[philhendry]

With a laser (sticks little finger in side of mouth)

Should have some standard sizes ready for selling very soon (ten hex oval and ten hex rectangle etc).

Ah, great - I might well be in the market for one!

[Elbows]

The announcements give me the image of some Newsie in the 1920's shouting on the street corner of Brooklyn.

"EXTRA EXTRA, THRACIAN BEGS MISSIO, CROWD DEMANDS BLOOD, GET YA COPY HEA!  TWO CENTS!"



 

[Dr Mathias]

With a laser (sticks little finger in side of mouth)

Should have some standard sizes ready for selling very soon (ten hex oval and ten hex rectangle etc).

cheers

James

Nice, nice. I just finished casting about a hundred hexes using a Keebler Studios rubber mold and I have to say I'm not happy with them. The sides aren't 90 degrees perpendicular to the floor for one thing, and I think when glued it might be hard to even tell where one hex ends and another begins. Kind of defeats the purpose

[Furt]

Nice, nice. I just finished casting about a hundred hexes using a Keebler Studios rubber mold and I have to say I'm not happy with them. The sides aren't 90 degrees perpendicular to the floor for one thing, and I think when glued it might be hard to even tell where one hex ends and another begins. Kind of defeats the purpose

Sounds like you went to an awful lot of trouble Matt.   I think James' hex arena looks great and a lot less work.

Regarding the trident/net-hand debate. Here is a fairly serious lot of reenactors who seem to all use the net in their right hand. The stance and method of attack seems fairly natural to me. The armored left arm extends forward like other gladiator stances and the net being held back in the right, allows for a nice swing forward, which would be difficult to do from the extended left hand. Still confused.   I do know the big retiarius looks like a bloody dangerous fellow to fight though.

[Mason]

Still confused.   I do know the big retiarius looks like a bloody dangerous fellow to fight though.

His opponent does not seem to learn through experience, though, does he?
 

[Too Bo Coo]

Well, that was disappointing 

I have consequently rolled up a new star of the Ludus......

Loath and dull, he's called Manuel and he's from Barcelona    

Shitest Ludus going 

cheers

James

Sooo  How did you do it?  The arena looks great!  Do you have WIP photos?

[Dr. The Viking]

I suppose Malamute better make a Basil then...  


I am really tempted by the prospect of doing some gladiator gaming.

Now go away.