Showing posts with label Swapping out board game components. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swapping out board game components. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 June 2018

Conquest of the Empire - A board game by Eagle Games.


Dug out this board game again. I have ordered 6mm Baccus Legionaries, auxiliary cavalry and command figures, to replace those in the game. The new, 10 and 15mm MDF bases have already arrived from Warbases.




The map is spectacular, both in size and the artwork. This could be used for so many things.



The central area.


Greece and the Middle East.


North Africa



Two different sets of rules.



Six factions.



The board laid out for the Classical Game, this is the positions after turn one.

I started this blog post a month or two ago and never completed it. Since then the Baccus 6 mm Legionaries, cavalry and commanders have arrived and been painted and based up, as have the galleys, catapults and cities that came with the game.

I have done a full play through of a six faction campaign over on my YT channel, https://youtu.be/qWiaXVSofNg  but below is the opening set up for a four player campaign that I am about to play through.





Some views of the painted Baccus and original game components. Blue has deployed the bulk of its forces to Mesopotamia and Galatia.



Yellow too has divided into two main forces, in the foreground is Numidia and across the Mediterranean Sea in Achaia.



Green in Hispania is eyeing up neighbouring Narbonensis.



Red has split between Egyptus and Neapolis.

I shall take more photos of the campaign as it is fought out and post them here on my blog, for those interested.






























Monday, 2 April 2018

Battle Cry with 6mm on table.

Scenario is Gettysburg, second day. Devil's Den, Wheat Field, Peach Orchard and Little Round Top.



Board laid out and units in place.


Anderson's Division nearest the camera will have to pass through the woods to attack Humphrey's Division.


20th Maine sit atop Little Round Top.



Hood's Division, lower left, prepare to assault the Union left flank, with just the small problem of Devil's Den and Little Round Top ahead of them.

I will make a record of the battle which I intended to start today, but the weather has been dark clouds and heavy rain all day, not ideal for video or photography. However, tomorrow is forecast to be much better, so I will start then.
I will use dice to record casualties to each unit, and I am also adopting the C&C Napoleonic system in as much as a unit will only throw the number of dice equal to the strength it has remaining, not four dice (for infantry) even when reduced to strength one.