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Introduction. Many years ago, there was a set of Gladiator Skirmish rules simply titled; ‘Gladiator Skirmish Rules’. They were simply produced and easy to learn and provided fun little games to simulate gladiatorial combat. The game played on a simple hex grid and the fighting was done in the style of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissor’ where each player would pick an attack and compare it with each other to determine if the attack was easy, medium, or hard to pull off. This was then converted to a separate table where dice would be rolled and compared with the armour value of the target and the difficulty of the attack to generate a level of wound. Wounds would accumulate so that three nicks would become a cut, three cuts become a wound and so on. I really enjoyed that dated set of rules and was looking for something that I could play simple quick games, mainly with the kids, but with friends also. I wanted to keep the rules as simple as possible whilst keeping the feel of the original rules, or at least how I remember them to be. This is my homage to those rules. Some bits will be similar, some bits completely different (mainly because I can’t remember how they were originally) and some bits will be vaguely familiar. I intend to do my best to create a fun little self contained project using the little knowledge of our hobby that I have picked up over the years.

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For this little project I really wanted to rewrite the rule book (for personal use) with my own version of what I wanted the game to be and bring it up to date.

The original rules were simply walls of black text on white paper and very dated by todays standards.

For my homage to the original rules, I really wanted to do the best I could so adding colour pictures was a good place to start.

Sure, I could have opted for a simple two-dimensional backdrop for the photos, but I wanted to do something a little grander, something to draw the crowds.

Thankfully the skilful mind of Iain Lovecraft had already created the STL files that would be instrumental in this project.

I set my little Ender 3 Pro to work.

The final structure consists of more than 30 different parts. I wanted my Colosseum to come apart to allow easier access to the play area that I intend to put inside it. So extra end sections were printed off to give a nice finish to the structure when it was broken down.

My initial thought was to create it in such a way that it could be split into 3 different pieces, however I finally settled on splitting the Colosseum in half.

With the stonework printed off and welded together I set my Elegoo Saturn to printing off the many Peons, Statues and other ‘miniatures’ I though I would need for this project.