It’s the end of day three and it’s time for a game, my pick for the evening is a gladiatorial battle.
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That is amazing and I would play just to experience playing in such in an epic setting
Sons of Mars making an outing, do let us know what you felt after playing a game (been tempted by this one and keep looking away every time I’m at the NorthStar website). I’m still waiting to hear whats going on with the Gladiators in plastic eM4 were planning on doing 🙂
“ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?”
or for a more recent reference…
“Capua, now shall I begin”
A gift … from the House of Batiatus … Lanister to the greatest gladiators in all the Republic!
Very nice work on the Arena.
Is it wrong that I first look for the rules system and then started figuring out the easiest way to build an arena for myself like that one and how to do it so that it stores away easily?
Excellent elephant!!
Fantastic terrain piece.
Gladiators makes for a fun skirmish game.
Really appreciate the variety of coverage OTT is putting out for this event
I agree! The terrain really makes the experience that much better!
Really appreciate the variety of coverage OTT is putting out for this event
Thanks!
This is something that @avernos and I were really going for. Get at least a little of every subgenre, system, etc. The one exception was sci fi. There were a FEW … mainly 40K and BattleTech. We walked past the 40K tables because, well, 40K … and walked past the BattleTech tables (despite my personal love of that universe) because …
1) Fair is fair, if we’re walking past 40K …
2) This is HISTORICON.
3) The BattleTech tables were “BattleTech Minimalist” … pretty much a green cloth hex mat and a little “Giant’s Causeway” elevation terrain … not the best subject for epic photographs.
There were a COUPLE tables we legit missed and I wish we could have gotten.
There was a 54mm tank battle … yes, 54mm TANKS … Okay, like four tanks, but still … but by the time we reached them they were taking the table down.
The “Eat Hitler” table would have been great just for a laugh (Hitler invents a time machine in his bunker to try to re-do World War II … screws it up, goes back much too far in time, winds up in the Cretaceous. Now you play as dinosaurs and the objective is to chase down and eat Hitler, Eva Braun, Blondi the Dog, and various other Nazi cronies. Again, we reached him as he was taking down the table.
There was one really nice “Very British Civil War” table somewhere in Scotland judging from the flags … but we just never reached it.
There was an “American Presidential Race 2020” that we DID reach (American political and social satire skirmish game mixed with a zombies because why not), but the guy setting it up was running late, friendly but super stressed, and politely declined the interview because he was beyond short on time.
An elephant ? Isn’t that a tad unfair ? 😉
Not really 🙂 it only turned up at the end of the game to cause a little havoc
Many men enters one lion leves? or elephant.
That Looks nice. Reminds me of the amphitheatre I saw in Trier. Although the Trier arena is far smaller. One on one fights, animal fights, reenacting of real battles, all included?
One of John’s relatives with a Mk1 tank got a game.