Saturday 18 April 2020

Asculum by Skype game

I was invited to take part in a game using Skype by friend Steve near Newark. As well as me in 'The Boro', we had Conrad and Paul from Tyneside and Wearside respectively and Shaun and Dave from Co. Durham.

The game was the battle of Asculum  between Republican Romans and the army of Phyrus, using Hail Caesar. Conrad and Dave were the Greeks. The rest of us were the Romans. I was volunteered to be the CinC. Paul was on the left as a sacrificial speed bump as his cavalry were facing lots of nasty elite blokes. Shaun on the left was facing the Galatian nutcases. It was going to be fun......

Here are a few pictures of the game. I've not captioned them but I think you can get an idea as to what's going on.









The game went really well, both from the enjoyment and the technical points of view. There were only  one or two odd technical  issues experienced by a couple players but nothing that stopped a really enjoyable game. Steve did a great job setting the game up, organising the technology, corralling the players and acting as umpire and figure mover. We Romans are a hard nut to crack and we pulled off a victory after half the enemy army was broken and their CinC killed. It was very close however. We barely touched their Phalanx but most of their supporting commands had run away so they were pretty much left on their own at the end. Absolutely more important than anything it was good to have a bit of interaction with some of my mates during The Great Confinement!

I think I shall try Skype for a future FRW campaign game if I can get the people and the technology organised.

5 comments:

  1. Interesting game Colin,
    How did the movement work?

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    1. We had very long tape measures.

      Seriously we just told the umpire what we wanted to do and he did all the measuring and movement for us.

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    2. Oh and we threw the dice. A level of complete integrity and honesty was a given.

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  2. Skype? Isn't that vintage technology nowadays? Zoom I'm told is the new kid on the block. Here I'll stick to painting, but keep posting games as it raises my spirits in all this lock down nonsense.

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    1. Skype works and has been used for ages. Zoom.is new but doesn't really offer me anything better than Skype. It ain't broke so....

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