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

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More goodness!!!

The only hits I took in Match 1

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End of Game 1 >-:)

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More!

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I tried to take chronological shots, but I think you may have guessed that I've mixed up the order...

Za was a great opponent and I look forward to a rematch!

Cheers Furt for letting me playtest your wonderful game!

[Ray Earle]

I tried to take chronological shits,

Interesting...   

The games look great. Where did the mat come from?

[YPU]

Pretty sure I am spotting some white chocolate pepernoten/kruidnoten there!

Looks like such a fun game! Lets hope that once all those end of the year festivities are gone I actually get to steal your luck in this game. 

[Too Bo Coo]

Interesting...   

The games look great. Where did the mat come from?

LOL!  Thanks for the catch!  In my defense the 'i' and the 'o' are right next to eachother!

The mat is the hotz deluxe gladiator mat in felt.  It's fantastic.  Totally worth the money, well made, easy to clean, easy to store and transport.  I forget exactly what I paid, but I want to say about $30.00.

Cheers!

[Too Bo Coo]

Pretty sure I am spotting some white chocolate pepernoten/kruidnoten there!

Looks like such a fun game! Lets hope that once all those end of the year festivities are gone I actually get to steal your luck in this game.  

You betcha!  It'll have to be January at this point, next weekend is my last weekend before I visit my family for the holidays.  But I'll be back the first week of January, so we can set something up soon after if you're free.

it's a FANTASTIC game!  Great fun, great components and the randomness of the dice allocation system means you cant really 'game the game'.  We both had a blast!

We also played Outrider, so you should check out those shots too!

[Too Bo Coo]

Hey Guys,
Ok I wanted to throw up the pictures asap, but now I have a few moments to describe the games.

I've manged to play it a couple of times, but it was the earlier version of the rules, which have not changed as much as became clearer, especially with the new QRS.

Game I: We started 10 spaces apart.
Za's Murmillio had advantage, and crossed the field.

Adv went to me, I did not have enough SPD to close, and neither of us thought to do more than move.

Za gets Adv again, engages and misses.  His Skl 3 vs my Skl 5 with spear was no match. 

He pushes until he runs out of Arena dice, but only 2 hits to the chest, 1 wound.

Adv goes to my Hoplomachus, who counter attacks and scores 3 hits to Za's left leg.

I run out of dice...

Round 2 runs not so differntly from Round 1,  which ends with my gladiator taking off Za's left leg at the joint. 

The masterful skill of the Hoplomachus was too much for the strong Murmillo... 

We were able to get a second match in, using the same gladiators.

The game was much more exciting the second time. I think at this point we both became more comfortable doing more than just basic attacks, and also began to understand how to manage the dice better.  This is key.

That said, we also decided not to play with any traits or favor, but to focus on the most basic rules, but next time I think we can add it all in.

All in all, we had a great time.  The game is easy to learn and as I wrote, the Arena dice add just enough randomness to keep the strategy high.

[fastolfrus]

In my defense the 'i' and the 'o' are right next to eachother!

Worse on my keyboard, all the letters have worn off the first row apart from QYUP.
The only keys with markings on the next row are GJK...
So I just have to try and remember which ones to use (although I double check every time I finish a sentence)

[Too Bo Coo]

Worse on my keyboard, all the letters have worn off the first row apart from QYUP.
The only keys with markings on the next row are GJK...
So I just have to try and remember which ones to use (although I double check every time I finish a sentence)

May I suggest a new keyboard??

[Too Bo Coo]

Not sure if you guys noticed, but I laminated all of my sheets, that way they not only stay clean, but more importantly, we can use dry erase markers for some of the stuff.  I prefer dry erase when I can over counters, as I find too many become a bit fiddly.  But that's just a personal thing...  Counters, or markers, the playsheets were very easy to use, and I found quite thematic.