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Gladiator Combat! (Live Sunday Stream)

September 23, 2022

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Getting ready for some gladiatorial arena combat for Sunday’s Live Stream. The system is a home brew: Gladiator: Blood & Sand (working title) clearly based on the Spartacus Blood & Sand show along with Gladiator, the original Spartacus movie: HBO: Rome, Anno Domini, and of course a fair amount of historical research (one can never trust TV and movies, after all.

Light, fast, with a strong emphasis on historical arena combat, the sports and entertainment aspects of gladiator combat, and building up your fighters to better attritibutes, skills (in and out of the arena), new weapons, upgraded armor & equipment, and more.

Here are the virtual figures I have created Wednesday and Thursday night.

Interested? We’re showcasing the game live on stream Sunday on the Sitrep Podcast channel, 2:00 PM Eastern.

Beginning classes are Myrmillo (gladius / drusus and long scutum shield), Hoplomachus (spear and round shield / buckler), Dimachearus (two swords), and Retiarus (trident and net). We’re also including gladiatrix females, which were admittedly exceedingly rare (and usually only in 2/3rd Century CE) but it’s fun to include them.