Hail Caesar Battle Report - Amazons and Pharaohs, 7 January 2014

[Froggy the Great]

With my inability to leave well enough alone, of course the first batrep I post using this Historicals ruleset is between two mythological armies.  I mean, why wouldn't it be?

Rules:  Hail Caesar, by Warlord Games.
Armies:  
600 pts of Mummies, based on the New Kingdom Egyptian published list. (Reaper Miniatures' Bones)
400ish pts of Amazons, based on the Later Hoplite published list. (Wargames Factory Amazons w/Reaper leaders)































This was a really good game - we seriously had no idea which army was going to break first, and we spent a turn or so with both armies one unit away from routing.  It was the Mummies' final break through the center that sealed the deal.

[mikeygees]

Very nice....

[A Lot of Gaul]

Great-looking AAR and pics! 

Cheers,
Scott

[Prof.Witchheimer]

What a game, what a bunch of figures. Congrats Froggy you've managed again to set up a whole project based on a very imaginative and inspiring idea!

[commissarmoody]

That was all kinds of great. What special rules did you use? If any.

[Froggy the Great]

Mummies were straight-up troops, though I'm considering making them slower perhaps.  The Amazons were mostly by the book, except that the arcanists were like Hawkins that lost a die when too far from the goddess.   The heavy arcanists were basically one Roman scorpion deployed as for models in open order.

[commissarmoody]

And what is a Hawkins? 

[shadowking1957]

just fantastic would like to see the army units pictures and characters looked brilliant.......got me thinking now

[Froggy the Great]

Mummies were straight-up troops, though I'm considering making them slower perhaps.  The Amazons were mostly by the book, except that the arcanists were like Hawkins that lost a die when too far from the goddess.   The heavy arcanists were basically one Roman scorpion deployed as for models in open order.

Should have been:

Mummies were straight-up troops, though I'm considering making them slower perhaps.  The Amazons were mostly by the book, except that the arcanists were like archers that lost a die when too far from the goddess.   The heavy arcanists were basically one Roman scorpion deployed as four models in open order.

This is what happens when I post from my phone.

[commissarmoody]

Got to love that helpfully autocorrect. 

[FramFramson]

Lovely AAR. Looks like you had a ton of fun!

[killshot]

That was a nice AAR, thanks for sharing.  Great looking battle with some fantastic armies.