Having recently finished of another adventure in Budapest (still writing that up), Patch and I did a round of CC:A last night. This time was more action from the Peloponnesian War with the Battle of Delium. Boeotia uses the orange[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for CC:Ancients
Not being ready for our next ASL game, Patch and I had another night of C&C:A on Tuesday. This time it was the Battle of Sphacteria from Expansion #6, which covers the end of the siege during the Peloponnesian War.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I played the Battle of Olpae from Commands & Colors: Ancients Expansion #6 last night. The Spartans have a notably better force on-board, but the Athenians have four units and a leader who can pop out of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I did another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients this Tuesday, with the Battle of Tanagra from Expansion #6 being the subject (though there were no walls to fall). Both armies are roughly equal, with the Spartans perhaps[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I returned to Commands & Colors: Ancients Tuesday night, with the Battle of Mycale, from Expansion #6. It’s a very unusual scenario, with a river running straight through the center row of the board, with hills on one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I went through our usual round of CC:A recently, doing the revised Battle of Plataea from Expansion #6. (I think we’ve played this FtF before, but I’m not sure if it was 1 or 2 rounds, and it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I did our usual between rounds of ASL game of C&C:A tonight. This time was the Battle of Himera from Expansion 1. It’s a little unusual, with an Syracusan MC+leader (Eumachus) starting adjacent to the Carthaginian camp, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commands & Colors: Ancients Expansion #6 actually has two scenarios based on Thermopylae, and Patch and I played the second one tonight, as our between-ASL game. This one is much more unusual than the first, with impassible hills occupying much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With “Came Tumbling After” winding up fast, Patch and I played the ‘Middle Gate‘ scenario from CC:A Expansion #6 over the last couple of Tuesdays. This is the ‘famous part’ of the battle, and features a special rule for three[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My latest ASL defeat by Patch was just about finished up, so we decided to do another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients tonight. This time was the Battle of Sepeia, a very strange Expansion #6 battle between the Spartans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…