Gladiator - Summary.

We concluded our last Munus (games) of the first year, with three of us participating in just two games. The game I played in, I lost, but my gladiator survived and got only 1 less fame point than the winner, because my gladiator was two tiers (levels) below my opponent and gained credit for that. 

The other game played was a match between a Retiarius and a Secutor, for which I took a prefuse number of photographs - nearly fifty photographs overall.

I took photographs further out than normal, trying to keep the large iron gate in each photo. The first photograph shows the intial set-up (as always), Secutor on the left and the Retiarius (net man) on the right.
I've ony selected the first two  moves worth of photographs, but it does show just how much movement there is in a game.

Turn 1, after two attacks the secutor hasn't hurt the Retiarius.

 Turn 1 (still), the Retiarius throws his net, misses, then puts in a driven attack against the retiarius.

Turn 2, the Retiarius (wins the initiative) and attempts to recieve his net

The retiarius has retreaved his net and succesfaully throws it at the Secutor

The retiarius fails to wound the Secutor with a special attack...

The Secutor falls back, and removes one of the two action dice lost

So, six photographs show most of the too and fro of just two turns of the game. Each turn there are a lot of decisions for a player to make, mostly surround the roll of his six action dice.

This game went on for 11 turns with neither gladiator striking a telling wound on his opponent, Eventually the retiarius' dice rolling finally let him down and he had to appeal to the crowd for mercy.

After quite a tense run through the "appeal to the crowd " table, the decision was passed on to the editor (organiser) of the game (another table). Eventually after a songle recount, the retiarus was granted meryc and he would live to fight another day, 

There was a little more paperwork to do, as this was the final munus of the year, crowns of Laurelswere awarded, champions decided and fame alloted.

We're giving it a rest this week, but playing the boardgame "Spartacus" instead.

That's it for another week hopefully you found something of interest and as always, your comments are both welcomed and appreciated.