Battle of Trasimene solo report 2'x2' table with own rules on blog

[Shaun Travers]

This is another game in play testing my ancient rules by replaying historical battles. This one is the Battle of Trasimene.  I am play testing the rules by chronologically replaying all the Peter Sides scenarios from his Historical Battles books.

I have been slow in play testing these rules for the last few years.  For November 2019 I set myself a challenge to play the 10 First and Second Punic Wars battles from the book.  This battle is game 4 in the attempt.

The battle report is here:

https://shaun-wargaming-minis.blogspot.com/2019/11/battle-of-lake-trasimene-217bc-using.html

 

And here is a shot of the Roman rearguard being attacked:

[Just Jack]

Shaun,

Despite it all being about naked dudes with spears, I am very much happy to see you kicking out batreps at the rapid rate.  Looks like you’ve got settled in and got your mojo back; here’s hoping that all those factors lead to some real wargaming, the sort that sees men shooting stuff at each other, like civilized human beings! 😉

V/R,

Jack

[Shaun Travers]

Thanks Jack.  I do have a WW2 6mm game to post, am thinking about a small 6mm WW2 campaign, and starting a 5 Parsecs from Home campaign (this last one will be interesting with me having no suitable SF skirmish figures!).

[Just Jack]

Looking forward to the WWII batrep, and there’s no such thing as a ‘small campaign!’ 😉

“…and starting a 5 Parsecs from Home campaign (this last one will be interesting with me having no suitable SF skirmish figures!).”

I love the enthusiastic, unbridled optimism; no minis, no problem! 😉

V/R,

Jack

[Shaun Travers]

I think for the first few games I can use some 1/87 railway figures and use some WW2 terrain not in storage or an SF boardgame board.  If I get past the first few games I may invest in more stuff 🙂  But maybe not if it does not look sooo bad.

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