Dux Bellorum at Salute

[guitarheroandy]

A bunch of us put on two games of Osprey's Arthurian rules 'Dux Bellorum' at Salute yesterday. We had a standard 32pt rulebook scenario using Arthur vs the Saxons and a double size game set in the late 4th century pitting the Late Roman British Northern border garrison against an unholy alliance of Picts and Scots...

We won 'best painting' which was unexpected and is a huge honour at such a prestigious show! 

A couple of taster pics below and many more on my blog...

[Mitch K]

If it played even half as well as it looks, it must have been great fun!

Thanks for sharing

[TWD]

You can read my version of events on my Blog

Some teasers:

[Atheling]

Beautifully done! 

I'll check your blog later Andy.

Darrell.

[Driscoles]

Congratulations and it looks great.
As said in another thread before. Dux Bellorum was the Game 2012 to me...Nobody is paying me for saying this 

[Dalauppror]

Congratulations to the prize !

Well deserved, stunning looking minis and terrain 

Best regards Michael

[painterman]

many congratulations on the win!!
Simon.

[Wilkins]

Really nice tables and exceptionally nice chaps around them. A well deserved win!

[Axebreaker]

Fantastic looking figures and terrain! Well deserved award!

Christopher

[guitarheroandy]

Many thanks for all the kind words! The terrain belongs largely to Steve Jones (http://paintingshed.blogspot.co.uk/) and is superb! The scratch-built fort (see his blog for a WIP thread on that) is particularly wonderful!

We always put a lot of effort in to ensuring that we are as pleasant and communicative as possible when doing a demo game. We all believe that is the way to do it, so we all try to explain as much as we can to observers, either individually or en-masse - the latter happened at one point where a fairly sizable crowd watched Arthur's force get beaten, helped by some truly atrocious dice rolling from yours truly, of course    Mind you, I asked for it a bit by 'playing to the crowd' and putting more into the attacks than I normally would 'for show'...

[pcjohnstone]

I'm glad it all came together Andy and the prize was well deserved.

I was there and was very impressed by the figures, the basing and the terrain - inspirational stuff!

Norman

[Barry S]

Great looking set-up. It would have been great to see 

[scrivs]

A bit of thread necromancy, but I also took a part in this and my report of the game are on the Scrivsland Blog



Scrivs

[Atheling]

A bit of thread necromancy, but I also took a part in this and my report of the game are on the Scrivsland Blog



Scrivs

And jolly good it all is too! 

Darrell.