Sandals and Spears!


I hate to admit it, but I think part of the appeal of this genre is just how incredibly vicious and bloody the era was. Who doesn't enjoy controlling armored elephants on the battlefield? Ancient battles were pretty much organized slaughter, with slavery being the best the loser could hope for. The Romans, for instance, enjoyed marching their enemy's captured generals down Rome's main street in a victory parade, then having them strangled. Yikes! Vae victis, indeed!
Anyway, I'm hoping Richard Borg's Command and Color Ancients keeps all the good things from Memoir '44 and throws a healthy, heaping dose of ancient battle flavor into the mix. In the mean time, maybe I'll crack open my copy of Caesar's Conquest of Gaul...
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I'm wondering if these pictures are of some of the costumed folks at BGG.Con the guy from Board Games to Go was complaining about...
haha. thats called amtgard sp?
anyone ever done it?
Woo hoo! Command and Colors Ancients was waiting on my doorstep tonight.
I really want to play that game, maybe we can get together sometime and get a play or two in.
I also have a love of Roman history, I used to participate in competitions on Roman History and on Roman Military in High School.
You went to a Roman Military High School? Wow, that must have been tough!
I'm planning on cracking the game open this weekend. Maybe we can set something up for next week.
I'm pretty interested in C&C: Ancients. From what I understand, it's like Battle Cry or Memoir but with actual grognard type rules (I'm assuming like unit morale and cohesiveness...?). Of course, I could be very wrong.
Either way, me want play!
One of Jon's friend's dad actually built his own leather armor for ancient battle recreations. It looked pretty sweet. -And although they might have put foam around the wooden claymores and such, they still looked very hardcore beating the crap out of each other.
Now there's something to add to my "List of things I want to do before my time's up". Cool pics.
wow!..great picture....Nice to see people wearing boots....
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