Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Early Achaemenid Persians versus Greeks Mortem et Gloriam Game

 


The armies deployed


Greek phalanx


Greek cavalry and skirmishers 



Side view of the Persians



Persian right flank and centre


Last Monday afternoon I went over to Craig's place and we played a Pacto (small) Mortem et Gloriam (MeG) game, with his Greeks taking on my Early Persians. This turned out to be a very one sided game with the Persians not putting up much resistance. The Persian cause was not assisted by poor shooting and some fairly dire dice rolling in their Kill A Base (KaB) tests which are basically morale tests. It was good fun to get the troops out and have a game with an actual opponent for a change. We used the coloured command discs rather than cards and I much prefer these, less clutter and less intrusive. I will have to put in an order to the Plastic Soldier Company and get some. Hopefully we will get in another game next week, the plan is for an Early Imperial Roman civil war game.



Persian left flank


Persians fire to no great effect


Crunch time for the Persian infantry!


Persians are about to break


14 comments:

  1. Beautiful armies, Mike. I like your sabot bases.

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    1. Thanks Ray, the Greeks barely raised a sweat.

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  3. A game vs a real person, your so lucky. Nice little shindig going on the table top as well, nice eye candy.

    Cheers
    Kevin

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    1. Thanks Kevin, it's been a while, solo games are better than nothing.

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  4. Lovely looking game, unfortunate result! Good to get a game in against a live opponent though!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain, fairly normal result for me, it was good to have a game and a chat.

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  5. Impressive and inspiring gaming and figures, Mike!

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    1. Thanks Dean, it was fun to have an actual opponent, even though I got thrashed.

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  6. can you publish your lists? I have both starter sets, but curious how your pacto lists look

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    1. I’ll try and track down the lists we used and post them here, the MeG army lists are updated every year so they be out of date.

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