While this week is quiet on the gaming front as I take it easy from a recent back injury, last Thursday saw four games of Commands & Colors Ancients. In a return to the much fought over ground at the 203 BCE Battle of Po River, Kevin and I joined Scott on his home turf for a gaming session using his splendid 28mm Ancients. |
| Scott, our host for the day. |
While the Carthaginians have been taking two out of three games against the Romans in the past dozen games, Thursday witnessed Rome turning the tables on Carthage. Rome saw victory in three out of the four games played in Thursday's session. Rome won 7-5, 7-5, 7-4 while losing 5-7. I came away 2-0, winning with both Rome and Carthage. In my 7-5 Roman win, I started off 0-4 down before roaring back to victory. A rare and most welcome outcome for me! Ah, it was a good day at the gaming table but the lunch tab was on me.
Next week, gaming sees a return to the table as WotR armies take to the field once again on Monday. Monday's contest utilizes One Hour Wargames' Scenario #4: TAKE THE HIGH GROUND as a basis for the contest. In this trial, the notion of Leader Priorities is added into the calculus. Should be fun.
36 comments:
Sounds like a good visit to Scott's place, Jon!
Looking forward to seeing your next WotR game too.
It was a great visit! I look forward to Monday's game as well. As I said in the post, it should be fun.
Lovely ancients!
Hope the back injury clears up soon.
Neil
Thanks, Neil! Scott is a great painter.
Great looking game with Scott and hope your back heals up Jonathan.
Christopher
Nice to see the Romans turn it around, even if it did cost you lunch. Back pain is never conducive to moving figures around a table so I hope it is on the mend.
Good to have a face to face gaming day.
The games made for a fun day. Back will improve soon.
Yes, very good to see Rome have success here. Wargaming can be a hazardous pastime.
It was very good to get a F2F game into the mix.
Great looking games & figures Jonathan. Especially the elephants.
Did you go with something Italian or North African for lunch?
Yeah, Scott’s elephant is superb. Lunch? It was Greek!
Very nice looking ancients. Good to hear you went 'two and oh. " Take care of yourself, back problems are insidious.
Going 2-0 is quite unusual for me. I rarely get a win when facing Scott. Back problems are a real pain. Hopefully, I work through this soon.
Lovely looking collection, the elephants look great, sounds like it was a super days gaming, can't beat that!
Sounds great sir!
Lovely photo of elephants.
Great to see ancients on the table and 2 victories to celebrate
Nice to get an away when for once Jon, but then the pleasure is in the company etc, with the win the icing on the cake. Fingers crossed you get over your back injury soon!
A fine day out there Jonathan. Hope your back recovers quickly.
Scott’s collection is a handsome one, for sure. Can’t beat an enjoyable day out gaming with friends.
It was!
I agree!
Indeed! Very enjoyable day out.
Win or lose, the important point is enjoying company at the gaming table. My fingers crossed for an improving back too!
Thanks, Phil!
Lovely looking game and sounds like fun! Looking forward to your next WOTR game!
Best Iain
The games were great fun!
Command and Colours transferred to the table always give a nice clear cut game! The elephants look great.
Correct on both counts, John!
Looks great, love the first picture with the gorgeous and fierce looking elephants!
That is a nice Nellie, isn’t it? There was another just like it on table too.
Those Ancients do look great, much better than the blocks from the original game. Combining the boardgame with the figures seems the ideal combination!
David, CCA with miniatures is an ideal combination. We have another F2F session on the slate for this week.
Good to see some face to face gaming Jon 👍
Yes, it is! Another F2F session on deck for Wednesday.
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