Scan, Steak and Victory.

Last week ended with a mysterious phone  call on Friday inviting me to have a CT scan as they had a cancelation and could I attend on Sunday. Intrigued, I duly arrived on the Sunday to find out what it was for and who had asked for it to be done. All was explained away to my satisfaction and it was a very routine affair and the day was topped off by a very good steak dinner with SWIMBO (my chauffeuresse for the day).

 A good result all round of a good week in so much as there were another two games of "Blood on the Sands" and I even won one - the first for a long time. The rules are now in their fourth iteration and imo,  they're almost in their final stage of completion. 

Number One son, a mutual friend (who had been one of my original playtest helpers and myself) aided  in the completion of the first munus (games) of my recently renewed gladiator campaign.

The unlucky Murmillo (left) and the Victorius  Hoplomachus

Number one son would have to play two matches, the first was against our friend, he playing a Murmillo (a heavily armed gladiator) against a Hoplomachus. of a lower tier.

There was a lot of tooing and froing  (as in photographs above and right), so much so that by turn five they had returned to their original start positions.

Eventually the Hoplomachus wore the Murmillo down sufficintly to get a telling blow in, that ended the match .
The Murmillo appealed to the crowd and was granted a missio  (saving him from execution),

The last turn-my gladiator at the bottom, his shield on the floor.

 

The second bout saw my tier 0 Murmillo struggling to get a hit on my son's tier 1 Thraex as he danced around me, continually wearing me down with a deep early wound and continuous (it seemd to me attacks on my fatigue level.  I got an early hit of his unarmoured arm but the writing was on the wall that I was done for and close to throwing the towel in. I did however make a final attack before I'd appeal to the crowd for mercy, but my dice were good and his defence roll was wanting. It was now down to where I had hit and what wound I'd inflicted. As luck would have it, I hit the same unarmoured arm as before and succeded in giving him a "slow kill", which meant the equivalent of two wounds which when added to his first wound meant he was unable to carry on and I'd won the match ! - Talk about luck ! (he wasn't best pleased). My son's Thraex was granted a mission too.

In other news, my gaming room tidy up was started, but is still ongoing and I've started a new bit of scenery, (more about this next time), I'm also on course to get another two games in this week as we start the second munus in th campaign.

Thanks for taking the time to view my meagre conttent (Gladiator fights are not that photogenic really, are they) and your comments are as welcome as ever and really appreciated.