10mm Hail Caesar Romans v Britons

 Today's game was a play through of the 'Ambush on the Cambridge Road' scenario from the Hail Caesar 'Britannia' supplement. We were using mine and Ian's 10mm Romans and Britons. The dice decided that Charlie and Ian would be the Romans marching along the road with Nigel and I as the Britons waiting in ambush. As suggested in the book we used cards placed face down to portray the British units that were only activated once their General decided to spring the ambush and attack. 

Nigel was elected to be the British General, the infamous Dogsbollux and he placed the unit cards whilst Ian and Charlie decided on their order of march for the Roman forces along the road. 

Charlie, in his role of Roman General Petilius Cerialis sent his sub general Appius (Ian) with the troops under his command along the road first. You can see the unit cards where the Britons await. 

Dogsbollux (Nigel) made the Britons wait until Appius and his troops had walked right into the main ambush zone on turn 5.

The slaughter is about to begin. 

I was playing the role of Spondulix, a fierce Briton chieftain and he crashed his elite chariots straight into the flank of a Roman legionary unit destroying them. A great start for the Britons but elsewhere Dogsbollux was killed in melee with some Roman Auxiliary cavalry. However, his chariots and cavalry destroyed another legionary cohort. Quickly electing a new general the Britons fought on.  

The Romans to the right are caught in column on the road as the eager Britons (to the left) start to swarm all over the place. Appius himself was also slain as his troops were being defeated. 

The British chariot and cavalry units performed superbly quickly breaking what remained of Appius' division before turning on Petilius Cerialis' troops. 

Cerialis tried to persuade one of the fleeing cohorts to join his own forces ('Where's your Courage' roll) but they were having none of it as he threw a blunder and they carried on running.  

Nigel's top unit of chariots threw javelins at the top legionary unit scoring 4 hits only for Charlie to throw four 6's for his very successful saving throws. More British cavalry hit the flank of the other cohort and it was all over soon after that with a resounding victory for the british, just as happened historically and Cerialis even managed to escape.  

This was a resounding victory for the Britons who didn't even manage to get their warbands into the fight. Being caught in column was deadly for the Romans and with the Britons appearing from all over the place the Roman units never really got chance to form up and resist properly. 

Despite the one sided result we all enjoyed the game. Next week we move forward to the 100 Years war in a full day of gaming at Charlie's house.