{"id":1525,"date":"2012-12-27T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2012-12-27T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:55:30","slug":"look-caesar-its-carthaginians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Look, Caesar, It’s Carthaginians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Late in the game when a Carthaginian and Roman unit each routed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last Friday, a few of the HAWKs came over to play Look, Sarge, No Charts: Fantasy, Ancients, and Mediaeval.<\/em>\u00a0 This was actually the first time I had played it with historical figures; all my previous play test have been with fantasy figures.<\/p>\n

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The game just getting underway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The game involved three legions of Romans versus three “warbands” of Carthaginians. \u00a0Both sides had some skirmishers and a little cavalry on the flanks.<\/p>\n

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A view of the Roman center early in the game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The game played very well, I thought. \u00a0Because of changes we’ve made it has a decidedly different feel from the previous three versions of the Look, Sarge rules. \u00a0I am thinking about adding a charge bonus for melee, however. \u00a0We haven’t done this in other versions of the rules. \u00a0(In the Napoleonic version, charging cavalry gets to roll first against non-charging units that are not in square.) \u00a0As ancients are mostly melee games, with perhaps some thrown spears or pila right before contact, I’m worried that the game will discourage people from charging at each other and could degenerate into folks staring at each other across the table.<\/p>\n

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The Carthaginian left about midpoint in the game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being mostly naked, it was difficult as Carthaginians to defeat the heavily armored Romans unless you could mass several units on one. \u00a0In this picture you can see that I was deployed in two lines. \u00a0My first line was in an odd, “refuse the flank” configuration, as I was anticipating an imminent charge by a bunch of Romans. \u00a0In this version of the rules, units can turn at the beginning of the move and then must move in a straight line. \u00a0This makes maneuver decidedly more difficult in this period than the other periods covered in this family of rules. \u00a0Placement of units and keeping a second line of troops becomes very important.<\/p>\n

In general, I think these rules are coming along nicely.<\/p>\n