One-Off Fantasy Battle

Yesterday, I finished painting up another 3-figure batch of the SCS Direct lizard warriors (the marine iguana themed ones). I've also been re-basing my Deetail knights individually so they can be used either on Venus or in small fantasy skirmishes. 

It seemed like a good as time as any to put a small battle on the table. The rules were the Ancient rules from Developing the Portable Wargame. The scenario was "Take the High Ground" from One Hour Wargames. The "table" is 7 grid spaces wide by 6 deep. Grid spaces are 5" square.

Deployment grid spaces were determined by die roll.

The foot knights were heavy infantry, the archers were treated as close order. The mounted knights were heavy cavalry. All foot lizards were light infantry, while the triceratops was treated as a war elephant. The spinosaurus was treated as heavy infantry with a +2 bonus in the first round of close combat, +1 thereafter.

Turn 3 or 4:  Flank attacks aplenty.

I was quite pleased both in how the game played and the look of the thing.  Unfortunately my phone died not even half-way through!

However, I did manage the classic "rule book with the table" photo before that happened:

I will undoubtedly play more games like this as my Venusians slowly build up. There'll be no painting this week though, as I'm off to Philly tonight. I plan to show my son my favorite city and gorge myself on soft pretzels and Goldberg's Peanut Chews.

For the flights, and for late evening downtime, I have some research planned: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pirates of Venus.

It's definitely of the "summer reading" variety of research, but should provide inspiration and fodder for planning while I'm away from my toys.