Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Terrain for an 28mm ancient game

Last weekend i persuaded a couple of friends to mine for a game of ancient gaming using a set of rules called Basic Impetus:  http://www.dadiepiombo.com/basic2.html the basic set is free to download and has been a hit with my wargaming club : http://www.newbuckenhamwargamers.net/.
 My friends have played ancient games before using Amarti rules for years and don't get me wrong they are good i think i just became jaded with them.







So whats all this gas bagging about and what does it have to do with terrain? Well i got a call Sunday from one of my mates that so inspired by impetus rules he wanted to put a game on and needed a roman marching camp,well it was Sunday and i had Monday off so i knocked this up in a day and a half,mainly due to good weather allowing speed of drying time.Made from ply-board,polystyrene,long thin rounded wood that was tied together with cotton,i found  these in the house where my wife had been mistakenly calling them place mats.

2 comments:

  1. Very cool fort Lee. Great use of the place mats! I feel that almost anything has potential for wargaming. Good work.

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  2. That's an excellent piece of work mate. Seems people have some strange ideas about the purpose of things. Only a wargamer can see a Roman marching fort in a boring place mat!

    Let us know what you think of Basic Impetus. I think they're fine and can be expanded pretty easily. I don't think you need to spend twenty five quid on the full set (or the army lists either).

    Gaz.

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