Commands & Colors: Ancients – End of Part 1

If you are a fan of the ‘Into The Gamescape’ podcast, you may remember that several months ago they started a Commands & Colors: Ancients tournament, played on VASSAL.

One of my opponents was Jonathan Moody, and after we had played our battles, we chatted about possibly carrying on playing the game through all the scenarios.

Well, yesterday saw the final battle of Leptis, which is the last battle in the ‘Truthless War’ scenario booklet for the original game – a battle which I unfortunately lost.

However, I have been keeping track of the overall score, and it is surprisingly even.

We have now played 40 scenarios (each scenario played twice, so you command each force in each scenario) and the current score in battles won is 21-19 to Jonathan.

If you take into account the number of victory banners won in each game, the scores are still remarkably close – Jonathan again leads 193-188.

So it appears that we are very well matched opponents, which does make for a very good game.

And so, onwards to the Greeks & Macedonians…

Commands & Colors: Ancients – Rome vs Carthage Battle Report

Following on from my previous battle reports, this is another in the series of battles in Scimitar Wargames Group Punic War campaign, using Commands & Colors: Ancients rules with miniatures. I’ve already reported on the result, but I thought an in-depth battle report was in order.

In this hard-fought battle, my Republican Romans were up against the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal, under the guidance of Philip Donald. See the Slide show here. The figures are from Philip’s own collection of 15mm figures.

Commands & Colors: Ancients – Battle Reports

I’ve finally finished two of my battle reports from the Scimitar Wargames Group Punic War campaign.

The first is my (very) bloody fight with the Spanish of Andrew Lawrence

Romans vs Spanish Battle Report

The second is a some what less-than-inspiring battle (on my part) against Pete Manning’s Gauls.

Romans vs Gauls Battle Report

Click on the ‘Slideshow’ button to reveal how the action plays out in both games.