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Historicon 2019 Live Blog - Part One!

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What If The Romans Invaded Ireland?

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torros

Looks good . Any idea of the ruleset?

Robert

Didn’t expect it to be as big! Looks really good! It’s a bit like the 1994 Soccer World Cup… the Irish v the Italians in the United States. There is bound to be one of the Irish Warriors who looks like Ray Houghton 🙂

oriskany

We will try to get back and record an interview with them for the second or third segment.

goban

Rome doesn’t record its failures.
P.S. They died from the common cold.

oriskany

Common cold STEEL, that is!
When we last left the table the Irish were being slaughtered Omaha Beach style and the Romans hadn’t taken a casualty. But the Irish had TONS of numbers and were still coming on …

daegren

What is the terrain made from? A kit? The raised hill looks great.

avernos

Mat over the top of foam. Scratch built fort

warhammergrimace

What if Romans had invaded Ireland, they’d have found bugger all but forests, swamps and the locals beating 10 bales of hell out of each other.

avernos

Sounds like roman propaganda there

lupa15

So cinematic! I really love the look of the fort with all the Romans looking out on the large open field!

oriskany

Thanks! I tried to get some “forced perspective” on those shots. Glad they came out well!

suetoniuspaullinus

What a lovely Roman fort ?

oriskany

It’s HUGE in scale, too!

ghent99

Very pretty

oriskany

This table was indeed epic.

tmon

Excellent Roman fort and terrain!

oriskany

From what I rememeber there are three scenarios with this they’re running … this was only the first. We will try to get back and record an interview with them for the second or third segment.

buggeroff

Hmmm didn’t they try and then decided sod that, way too much hassle

oriskany

Caesar’s first invasion of Britain?

buggeroff

wish they had, we’d have better roads 🙁

oriskany

Can’t argue with that.

jemmy

If the Romans had invaded Ireland, there would not have been some kind of Alesia. The irish would have repelled the Romans, I´m sure.

oriskany

The Romans wouldn’t have liked the food, either. 😀 😀 😀

skodamarine

So There’s something very appealing about Roman armies…. I might Have to start one!

oriskany

The definition of a “ranked” force. 😀 And historically they were “designed” to look terrifying and impressive when in full battle array and formation.

zorg

All fantastic looking Roman fortifications.

oriskany

Very “Alesia” in some ways.

zorg

I do love the story of them attacking the Gaul’s they ended up fighting the city and the reinforcements at the same time from the walls they’re building as the fighting go’s on around them.

oriskany

Yep, that’s Alesia. Caesar has Vercingetorix besieged in Alesia, while Caesar is besieged himself by Gaul reinforcements. Insane numbers, too. Even conservative estimates put the Gauls near 100,000.

zorg

luckily not asterisk an obelisk? for Caesar.

oriskany

Definitely a very tough battle for him, a masterpiece of siege warfare.

zorg

yup.

longshotte

That looks pretty awesome. Looking forward to a report on the outcome.

oriskany

We get back to this table for interviews, he tells us what went down then.

somegeezer

Nice “what if” scenario.

oriskany

The Irish seemed to do better as the weekend progressed. The first big game they lost … HARD. The second game they lost, but barely. They might have won the “Irish Teutoburg Forest” game in open woods (???)

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