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Post by Roland on Nov 22, 2021 14:11:32 GMT
As I'm updating my Gauls and Caesarian Romans ( Marian), I picked up Rick Priestley's "Hail Caesar" rules set. Had eye towards giving these rules a roll for much larger multi player games and want to use my DBX based 15mm armies. From what I can see of the rules set it would be a near seamless transition ( even though Priestley admits that his groups preferred scale is 28mm.). Anyway, for anyone who has tried, thoughts on the game?
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Post by Baldie on Nov 22, 2021 14:42:02 GMT
Hi There
My group play HC in 15mm, we play in cm rather than inches
Basing we use our DBX stuff so for e.g. my Early British
Large unit 6 x Bases in a 3x2 formation
Regular unit 6 x bases in a 2x2 formation
Small unit 2 bases side by side
Tiny units a single base
Works well and I like the system, we do tend to do more Lart now but HC is one of those that wont go away.
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Post by Roland on Nov 22, 2021 14:49:12 GMT
I'm assuming you meant "4" for regular bases. Glad to hear you like it. The game philosophy suits my current gaming sensibilities so I hold out high hopes for fun. Do you do anything special for skirmishers and light infantry? ( or do you simply separate the units into their constituent DBA stands?)
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Post by vodnik on Nov 22, 2021 18:23:22 GMT
...i think HC is a game made by a company that makes miniatures. Such manufacturers optimize their rules for their products - 28 mm miniatures. Using 15mm miniatures for Tabletop games gamers have to decide what bases are best...
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Post by Baldie on Nov 22, 2021 20:08:37 GMT
I do indeed mean 4 for regular.
As far as for what goes on a base basically we just use our DBA bases.
So warband are 3 to a base, javelin lads are psilo stands, cav 3 and LH two figs light chariots single one to a base. So 4 chariots to a regular unit.
Their Roman enemies same rules apply so legion and solid aux are 4 to a base, archers are 3 lights and slingers etc Psiloi artillery we usually just leave as a single stand to a unit cos we ain't got many.
Will try to take a few pics tomorrow.
We usually do 350 or 400 point games with 2 or 3 divisions.
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Post by Roland on Nov 22, 2021 20:54:02 GMT
for slingers and such I could even see my way through to painting a few spares and mounting on pennies for skirmishing, but simply leaving them on their 40mm base and noting it would seem to work too.
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