Just received my Hannibal battle set... Great game to watch while I paint and learn the epic Hail Caesar. Looking forward to many more of your battle reports.
Got a roman and carthigan division for the holidays. Just started painting the roman heavy calvary and these videos are belpful learning the rules of the game
According to the rules and diagram on page 149 and the diagram on page 152, Triarii fight in half-maniples. Instead of one long battle line, one base is put behind the other base. This counts as a battle line for Triarii as opposed to the long battle line the Principes and Hastati are formed. This may have made a difference when Robin's Velites gave ground and ran into his Triarii at 49 minutes. Overall, great game and I'm looking forward to painting mine all up.
Really nice one. The speed you paint all the minis is astounding! It seems to be your super power. Personally, I have sitting Epic Waterloo and Push of Pikes sitting on my shelf and looking down on me. Couldn't bring myself to start it apart from some Prussions. I always seem to end up doing other things in 28mm...greetings to Robin, he does a really good job!!
@@7thson726 I don't have a color scheme yet, I was gonna look up some videos (and rewatch yours) on how to do the various units. Your models and board looked fantastic by the way, awesome job!
I'm generally not a fan of ancients. That said, very entertaining report. Well fought on each side. Table looks great. Good job.👍 Looking forward to the next report. Thanks guys. Keep up the good work.
@@7thson726 We recorded our first go at the game so our reportwill be a little rough. 😂 Fun system though, I’m excited to see what other factions they’ll start adding
@@TabletopCollective is that your first time at Hail Caesar? It's very forgiving, but I find the best fun comes when you start meddling with it. Make a unit wavering, add a better commander with a +4 combat score who plunges headlong into the fight but is more likely to die 😁 looking forward to seeing it 👍
@@7thson726 we played off camera months ago so I didn’t remember much, but we read up quite a bit beforehand. The rules for these games never stick in my brain until I play once or twice though! We gave the commanders +1 leadership to make it slightly more forgiving although I still failed a roll or two 😂
Awesome as always! In my opinion these are the best wargaming videos on youtube. Might inspire me to complete my 1/72 Carthaginian army (already have the Romans done).
Lovely to see more content that's smaller than 28mm. Small scales lead to bigger battles. 28mm look great, but there's a hard limit on space and cost when you get to a certain size. Hope you continue to do more.
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it 👍 I already have two huge Napoleonic armies in 28mm, the thought of re doing them in Epic Scale gives me chest pains 😅
@@7thson726 I certainly did! Curious though, would you be able and willing to do a short video on how you setup and tear down your table and terrain? Your setups are always beautiful, and I'd be interested to see the technique. Looks like you sprinkle little detritus all around for added realism, but do you just take out the mat and shake it off after? So many questions.
Great setup and looked amazing! What do you use under the mat for the hills/undulation? Also when you use grit/sand on the mat how do you go about cleaning it up?
Thank you. So the hills are tea towels and t shirts rolled up and spread out to suit. I just use a little dust pan and stuff brush to collect the bits up. I then shake off the mat outside 😁👍
Great Video. Have you ever made a video about how you do your tables? Roads, Hills and so on? And how easy it is to tidy away? Coming from 40k flat tables, I really, really like the look of Historical tables.
I do keep getting these requests and I've started planning one out. I thought it would be best with a game in mind and using a green table as I would assume that's the most common. Is there anything in particular you would like to know other than what you said above ? 😁👍
@@7thson726 Almost a step by step starting with an empty kitchen table, and ending up just before models are placed on the table. Im really interested in how you do your roads as they look very natural, but also difficult to clean up and use the material again.
Really enjoyed this, loved the scale and the movement room. I think the ranges for slings and arrows might be a bit excessive. Other than that loved it.
Yeah it did seem slightly off, we're thinking of reducing by 2/3s for everything as a possibility 👍 thanks for taking the time to comment buddy, glad you enjoyed it 😁
I think the 28mm Hail Caesar distances were applied. Warlord suggests to cut in half or to use the same distances but in centimeters in stead of inches for Epic scale.
@@4coseas even though inches is predominantly used for the main version, the rules are scale agnostic. The cm and half measurements are only in the rulebook as options, the default is still inches. We're thinking of going down to 2/3rds distances which is what we use for black powder which has a far higher rate of movement 👍 I personally wouldn't lower it further as units would very slow doing much 😁😅
Nice set up, nice battle report. Still not convinced by the proportion of Tiarii. I have preorder the rules book from Boards and Swords so hopefully it will be waiting for me when I get home lol
Excellent stuff. I guess the way they have done the proportions is because by HC standards the unit would then count as Tiny, and would be quite ... Limited. But then, nothing to stop that being tried out 👍
The extra room for manoeuvres and the sheer number of units engaged made this quite different from the other battles I've seen on your channel, Martin. As a regular 6mm player, (even more of the same factors) I was fairly sure that I would like it more...and I did. How did you find the added complexity of working the ruleset in the larger scale? Or did you miss the individual nature of fighting with bigger figures? I am coming to the belief that the two types of battle given by having less, but bigger miniatures and more but smaller figures are more different than they at first appear. And, personally, I reckon epic and 15mm sit in the middle ground of medium scale warfare.
Thanks buddy, glad you enjoyed it 👍 to be honest I didn't find much of a problem with the scale but I'm used to gaming at different scales though it has been a while. The main thing to consider is the increased time it takes to take a turn due to the number of units and also that they can be more disposable. I have some thoughts following this game and project on scale and what you're looking for in a game. I certainly did miss the more dynamic view of the game, I'm considering a video on the subject, as a discussion
A great report. Was great to see some epics in action. Love these oldstyle systems when folk just run off the table and dont come back, like at the start 😂😂 Thinking im swinging more to the epics to start HC. You did invite me to email you questions a video or two back... okay to trouble you with that? I would guess you are rather busy.
Really pleased you enjoyed it buddy 😁 feel free to email me, I'm pretty busy with work and the school holidays but will always reply when I'm able to 👍
Great battle, thanks for setting it up! It's strange that the elephants don't have a "fearsome" rule or something like that, it feels strange to be able to charge at an elephant
Thanks, that's a good point, maybe you could employ the wavering rule to the first combat with an elephant or something similar, or re roll a successful order check to charge
Great game mate. Great looking board too. How are you doing this kind of scatter on there? Are you just chucking loose bits of basing material around and then sweeping it back into a box post game?
excellent job painting and the board looks fantastic. Well done! I'm still knee deep in Epic Napoleonics but this makes me want to get a few boxes of Epic Punic Wars. I really don't like Rick Priestly rule systems, though. Have you considered trying any other systems?
I have a few other rulesets such as Impetus and TTS that I enjoy, I particularly think these minis would work well for TTS. If I can convince Robin you may well see a report in the future 👍
These minis are very well suited to TtS! IMO. Great rule set with army lists that are a bit more flavourful too. Just need a gridded mat. Just as an option to consider, we play using micro playing cards for movement and D10 for shooting and combat.
i love your tokens. Are they MDF? Where can i finde them? :) Edit: Your Table looks amazing!! Watch your Video while painting my first Histati. 2nd Edit: Where do you get your tinis houses from? ;)
Really pleased you enjoyed it 😁 the tokens are from Warbases, just select the custom token option and the options you want. The buildings are from Forged in Battle 👍
Re the first ‘big’ combat, where the elephants broke - you used triarii supporting the hastati using the manipulation rule, plus support from the principe directly behind. Couldn’t you have used the other principe unit as support, using the manipulation rule again?
So he took 5 dice from the Hastati, 2 from the Principe and 2 from the Triarii (though this should have been 3). There are no other units in base to base as far as I can see for them to use. If there was then he had room for one more support, you only ever get a max of 3 supporting units. If I've looked at the wrong but just give me the time in the video and I'll check again 😁
I like the scale, makes it look like a proper battle, though you lose some of the character of 28mm like what you've done with the 1st Crusade project.
@7thson726 Hi Mate perhaps in 2 or 3 weeks time. I will be visiting Bury on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon to visit drinks delivered to your door. If possible I could drop of the mini drill and raffle prize off ? Cheers
@7thson726 Good morning. Found a new song on you tube I sent you and Hayley. What about Saturday 31 August morning or afternoon. Or Sunday the 1st September morning or afternoon?
Thanks 👍 well, there is no difference in the rules. The game has always been scale agnostic though everyone primarily seems to do 28mm. Warlord have just produced this range as an option essentially
Evening, had a panic all setup to watch and the beloved decided to phone at 7 59 :(. Think I may be in trouble for my response once I knew she was ok at work and just wanted a chat on her break :)
The big box is pretty pricey, but that's the battle set, I don't think you'd really need anything else once you had that. But there are the individual division sets as well
The figures look superb, but Hail Caesar is a very bad set of rules and always has been. Clever marketing from Warlord, they have managed to re ignite this set of rules using the ploy of the miniatures. ADLG and MEG (even DBA) are much better rules for the period. You'll end up spending a lot of money investing in all this, if cash is no object, go for it and enjoy but you will quickly see how the rules don't work. Never understood why you have a number to hit on a dice, so you roll and get 4 hits. then your opponent rolls to save the hits and negates the 4 hits.. You are rolling a load of dice twice to get a single result. Never had a good game of Hail Caesar, we ditched it back in 2016.
@@MiniatureOdyssey no worries, pleased you like the rules, lots of people in our gaming club inc me played them way back and every time there were very erratic combat results and lots of arguments. They just left a bad taste in my mouth
I love these games and battle reports, except for the overly dominant talking of one person. There is always one person that explains and talks about everything and the other person barely says anything. Here is the same, Robin barely gets to discuss or talk at all. He doesn’t talk about or do his own explanations about his turns, strategies or anything really. Never understand why have two people if this is really just a solo game with an assistant. I mean robin barely made decisions on what to do on his turns. Will not watch much of this channel because of this as it just really bothers me because it makes it not a 2 person battle.
An interesting take on this. I see that 7th Son is explaining what is going on with the game as its his channel. I'm sure Robin will do the same on his...
I'd disagree with this. There's plenty of discussion back and forth. It makes sense that Martin explains what's going on, not only is it his channel but he's the one holding the camera and it picks up his voice better. The command phase is fast forwarded which is when loads of conversation happens, it's just summed up at the end.
So, I sort of would understand your point if there wasn't a whole part of each turn dedicated to the opponent explaining why they have done what they have. I can assure you that I don't play for Robin and his decisions are his own, if I did play for him, with my tactics, he would lose every time 😅 The reason I explain the dice rolls and what is needed, is so that it is clear and concise as I find a lot of battle reports get muddled in checking and ums and errs, here before we roll we clearly state what we are doing and why. If the channel isn't for you, no worries, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Great report. Really excited for this game. I'm impressed with how many you guys have managed to paint in a short time and film a game. Big up Roman salute🫡😅
Good battle report and great looking game. I’ve always found the Romans need to be played as historically as possible, moving forward all together and maintain a solid battle line otherwise they get defeated in detail with too many groups with too many exposed flanks. The cavalry of course can do their other thing “The risk to the cavalry is……….acceptable” 🏛️
@@7thson726 Indeed. If the Roman player splits the army up it’s asking for trouble. Roman armies in big battles tend to be smaller too in ever rule set, so easier to flank. Real Roman commanders never had to bother about points 🤣. Send 2 legions, if that fails, next time send 4, then 6, then 8 until they won.
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excited to jump into this game
Brilliant, hope you enjoy it, feel free to pop any questions you may have in here if it helps 😁
Well done chaps. Amazing game, miniatures and table looked great. Even more impressive that you got so much painted in such a short period of time.
Cheers buddy, greatly appreciated, there was a moment I thought I was going blind doing the bases, having a break for a couple of weeks 😅
Just received my Hannibal battle set... Great game to watch while I paint and learn the epic Hail Caesar. Looking forward to many more of your battle reports.
Glad you enjoyed it. There are plenty of other HC battle reports on the channel to check out if you're new to the system 😁
Looks superb and the scale of the miniatures make it look like a convincing battle
Cheers, it's been fun to work on 👍
Got a roman and carthigan division for the holidays. Just started painting the roman heavy calvary and these videos are belpful learning the rules of the game
Awesome stuff, that will give a good game and it's easy to expand from there. Thanks for watching 👍
Excellent guys, very seesaw at one stage. The overall look of the armies is fabulous.
Cheers
Matt
Thanks Matt, glad you enjoyed it
I’m sure someone else has already called it out, but yes page 85 shows Elephants as using the Cavalry break tests. Great battle report!
Awesome, thanks very much 😁
Awesome units, armies, table. Its so great. Congrats to great hobby time. Thanks to share with us.
Really appreciate it thank you, next one is on the way 😁
Brilliant! It does look like a battle! I have always loved this period and this report makes me feel like getting involved!
That would be awesome, I would love to see your handy work on the elephants 😁
@@7thson726 I do have a sprue that came with WI!
@@owbnid ooh which one?
@@7thson726 Punes! No heffalumps tho ..
wilgut.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-hunt-for-oliphaunt-part-1.html. This is my blog on how I did my Mumaks
According to the rules and diagram on page 149 and the diagram on page 152, Triarii fight in half-maniples. Instead of one long battle line, one base is put behind the other base. This counts as a battle line for Triarii as opposed to the long battle line the Principes and Hastati are formed. This may have made a difference when Robin's Velites gave ground and ran into his Triarii at 49 minutes. Overall, great game and I'm looking forward to painting mine all up.
I must have missed that but, thanks for the heads up. Really pleased you enjoyed it 😁👍
Thanks a ton for this, really helpful.
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Fantastic battle report as always. Hope to see more in the near future!
Cheers mate, we have another planned for some time in the next couple of weeks 😁
Nice, amazing how much models you have got painted already even though you got some stuff early. Looking really good
Cheers, we were pleased with the amount we managed, will still be adding more 😁
Great battle guys - lovely to see all your painting on the table.
Cheers bud, most of that was based the night before, I now hate sand as much as snow 😅
@@7thson726 😝
Very cool battle. I'm tempted to start something in this scale and this might be it. Thank you
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it 👍
Nice one Gents! Great looking table, my eyes have to adjust to watching Epic Scale but very enjoyable all the same. Many Thanks 🤓👍
Thanks buddy 😁
Beautiful game guys, thank you!
No problem, thanks for watching 👍
Great battle report. The massed units look awesome! My Hannibal box showed up the other and I can't wait to get working on it.
Awesome stuff, what are you going to start with 👍
@@7thson726 The Roman infantry. I've never done this small scale, and I think they'll be more forgiving to start out on
@@nightowl2003 I'd say so, you can certainly see results alot quicker 👍
Really nice one. The speed you paint all the minis is astounding! It seems to be your super power. Personally, I have sitting Epic Waterloo and Push of Pikes sitting on my shelf and looking down on me. Couldn't bring myself to start it apart from some Prussions. I always seem to end up doing other things in 28mm...greetings to Robin, he does a really good job!!
Thanks very much 😁👍 I considered the push of pike box but never pushed the button.
Excellent report! I look forward to seeing more.
Thanks Very Much, we have another planned, should be played in the next couple of weeks 👍
Amazing looking battle, impressive board and models
Thanks, great fun to put together and play 👍
Fantastic game! Can’t wait to grab the Roman set from my LGS Friday!
Awesome, you got any plans for colour schemes yet?
@@7thson726 I don't have a color scheme yet, I was gonna look up some videos (and rewatch yours) on how to do the various units. Your models and board looked fantastic by the way, awesome job!
I'm generally not a fan of ancients. That said, very entertaining report. Well fought on each side. Table looks great. Good job.👍 Looking forward to the next report. Thanks guys. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it 😁
Really excited for this!
Cheers, we had great time playing. Just getting used to the new lists 😁 looking forward to the next game
@@7thson726 We recorded our first go at the game so our reportwill be a little rough. 😂
Fun system though, I’m excited to see what other factions they’ll start adding
@@TabletopCollective is that your first time at Hail Caesar? It's very forgiving, but I find the best fun comes when you start meddling with it. Make a unit wavering, add a better commander with a +4 combat score who plunges headlong into the fight but is more likely to die 😁 looking forward to seeing it 👍
@@7thson726 we played off camera months ago so I didn’t remember much, but we read up quite a bit beforehand. The rules for these games never stick in my brain until I play once or twice though! We gave the commanders +1 leadership to make it slightly more forgiving although I still failed a roll or two 😂
Awesome as always! In my opinion these are the best wargaming videos on youtube. Might inspire me to complete my 1/72 Carthaginian army (already have the Romans done).
I really appreciate that, thank you 👍 I have a great time making them
Lovely to see more content that's smaller than 28mm. Small scales lead to bigger battles. 28mm look great, but there's a hard limit on space and cost when you get to a certain size. Hope you continue to do more.
Thanks, certainly intend on doing more and expanding the forces here 👍
Great game really enjoyed it thay look better when you filmed close up but still enjoy it and great train 👍👍👍🤠🤠🤠
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it 👍
Great battle report
Thanks 👍😁
A truly epic game! :)
Thanks bud 😁
The graphics are amazing, so life like.
Thanks
nice work, mine arrived today and now need ~300 quid of primer!
😅 I feel your pain
Great, as usual! Thanks for continuing to share with us. Epic is still not for me, but I still appreciate getting to see the play!
Thanks buddy, appreciate you taking the time to watch 👍
One of the best epic battle reports, maybe some epic waterloo reports in the future? 👀
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it 👍
I already have two huge Napoleonic armies in 28mm, the thought of re doing them in Epic Scale gives me chest pains 😅
Hype!
😬 hope you enjoy it 😅
@@7thson726 I certainly did! Curious though, would you be able and willing to do a short video on how you setup and tear down your table and terrain? Your setups are always beautiful, and I'd be interested to see the technique. Looks like you sprinkle little detritus all around for added realism, but do you just take out the mat and shake it off after? So many questions.
Great setup and looked amazing! What do you use under the mat for the hills/undulation? Also when you use grit/sand on the mat how do you go about cleaning it up?
Thank you. So the hills are tea towels and t shirts rolled up and spread out to suit. I just use a little dust pan and stuff brush to collect the bits up. I then shake off the mat outside 😁👍
god I cant wait for hellenistic armies for that system. imagine the mass of Sarissas moving forward
I have to admit, that will be awesome.
I'm holding out for Epic Battles The Trojan War personally 😁
Great Video.
Have you ever made a video about how you do your tables? Roads, Hills and so on? And how easy it is to tidy away? Coming from 40k flat tables, I really, really like the look of Historical tables.
I do keep getting these requests and I've started planning one out. I thought it would be best with a game in mind and using a green table as I would assume that's the most common. Is there anything in particular you would like to know other than what you said above ? 😁👍
@@7thson726 Almost a step by step starting with an empty kitchen table, and ending up just before models are placed on the table.
Im really interested in how you do your roads as they look very natural, but also difficult to clean up and use the material again.
"Well; they are peasants!" You need to make a channel T Shirt and make Robin wear it.
This sounds like a plan 😁
Really enjoyed this, loved the scale and the movement room. I think the ranges for slings and arrows might be a bit excessive. Other than that loved it.
Yeah it did seem slightly off, we're thinking of reducing by 2/3s for everything as a possibility 👍 thanks for taking the time to comment buddy, glad you enjoyed it 😁
I think the 28mm Hail Caesar distances were applied. Warlord suggests to cut in half or to use the same distances but in centimeters in stead of inches for Epic scale.
@@4coseas even though inches is predominantly used for the main version, the rules are scale agnostic. The cm and half measurements are only in the rulebook as options, the default is still inches. We're thinking of going down to 2/3rds distances which is what we use for black powder which has a far higher rate of movement 👍 I personally wouldn't lower it further as units would very slow doing much 😁😅
This was a good fight.
Thanks 👍
Nice set up, nice battle report. Still not convinced by the proportion of Tiarii. I have preorder the rules book from Boards and Swords so hopefully it will be waiting for me when I get home lol
Excellent stuff. I guess the way they have done the proportions is because by HC standards the unit would then count as Tiny, and would be quite ... Limited. But then, nothing to stop that being tried out 👍
The extra room for manoeuvres and the sheer number of units engaged made this quite different from the other battles I've seen on your channel, Martin. As a regular 6mm player, (even more of the same factors) I was fairly sure that I would like it more...and I did. How did you find the added complexity of working the ruleset in the larger scale? Or did you miss the individual nature of fighting with bigger figures?
I am coming to the belief that the two types of battle given by having less, but bigger miniatures and more but smaller figures are more different than they at first appear. And, personally, I reckon epic and 15mm sit in the middle ground of medium scale warfare.
Thanks buddy, glad you enjoyed it 👍 to be honest I didn't find much of a problem with the scale but I'm used to gaming at different scales though it has been a while. The main thing to consider is the increased time it takes to take a turn due to the number of units and also that they can be more disposable.
I have some thoughts following this game and project on scale and what you're looking for in a game. I certainly did miss the more dynamic view of the game, I'm considering a video on the subject, as a discussion
A great report. Was great to see some epics in action. Love these oldstyle systems when folk just run off the table and dont come back, like at the start 😂😂
Thinking im swinging more to the epics to start HC. You did invite me to email you questions a video or two back... okay to trouble you with that? I would guess you are rather busy.
Really pleased you enjoyed it buddy 😁 feel free to email me, I'm pretty busy with work and the school holidays but will always reply when I'm able to 👍
Great battle, thanks for setting it up!
It's strange that the elephants don't have a "fearsome" rule or something like that, it feels strange to be able to charge at an elephant
Thanks, that's a good point, maybe you could employ the wavering rule to the first combat with an elephant or something similar, or re roll a successful order check to charge
Great battle report, very bloody! Where do you get your casualty markers from?
Thanks 😁 I just got them off eBay, think I just searched boardgame gems 👍
Great game mate. Great looking board too.
How are you doing this kind of scatter on there? Are you just chucking loose bits of basing material around and then sweeping it back into a box post game?
Thanks buddy 😁 yeah pretty much, I have different tubs of scatter that I can use and I sweep it up after and shake off the mat outside 👍
Great fun as always! I know Hannibal is the new hotness, but is there any chance of more Black Powder some time? Pretty please?
Haha well funny you should say that, we're planning on Playing Soldiers of Napoleon in August 👍
@@7thson726 I look forward to it!
Looks very nice. Is that 6mm?
Good pr for the game this :)
Thank you, they are close to 15mm, I think the official line is 13.5 but they sit similar to older 15mm manufacturers 👍
excellent job painting and the board looks fantastic. Well done! I'm still knee deep in Epic Napoleonics but this makes me want to get a few boxes of Epic Punic Wars. I really don't like Rick Priestly rule systems, though. Have you considered trying any other systems?
I have a few other rulesets such as Impetus and TTS that I enjoy, I particularly think these minis would work well for TTS. If I can convince Robin you may well see a report in the future 👍
These minis are very well suited to TtS! IMO. Great rule set with army lists that are a bit more flavourful too. Just need a gridded mat. Just as an option to consider, we play using micro playing cards for movement and D10 for shooting and combat.
@@Edward-Plantagenet I'm certainly thinking about it. It's been a while since I played TTS but I'd definitely be up for it 😁
Random one, but where did you get your MDF markers/tokens from?
They are from Warbases. There is a costing MDF token option 👍
@@7thson726 thanks!
I use the rules but use the centimeters scale. Units moving in inches is way too fast for my taste. I just discovered your channel. Subbed!
Welcome aboard, hope you enjoy the other videos. I've thought about using CM, may do so in the next game 👍
i love your tokens. Are they MDF? Where can i finde them? :)
Edit: Your Table looks amazing!! Watch your Video while painting my first Histati.
2nd Edit: Where do you get your tinis houses from? ;)
Really pleased you enjoyed it 😁 the tokens are from Warbases, just select the custom token option and the options you want. The buildings are from Forged in Battle 👍
Re the first ‘big’ combat, where the elephants broke - you used triarii supporting the hastati using the manipulation rule, plus support from the principe directly behind. Couldn’t you have used the other principe unit as support, using the manipulation rule again?
* manipular
So he took 5 dice from the Hastati, 2 from the Principe and 2 from the Triarii (though this should have been 3). There are no other units in base to base as far as I can see for them to use. If there was then he had room for one more support, you only ever get a max of 3 supporting units. If I've looked at the wrong but just give me the time in the video and I'll check again 😁
@@7thson726 it could be my eyes, but I thought there was another unit diagonally to the right rear that could support using the manipular rule
Man, I thought Carthage had the left flank...
So did I 😅
I like the scale, makes it look like a proper battle, though you lose some of the character of 28mm like what you've done with the 1st Crusade project.
I absolutely agree, I love the character that I can achieve at 28mm but I also love the look of the smaller scales in terms of mass battle 👍
Sirs, where is your campaign map ?!
For which game? I have a couple now 😁
@@7thson726 for the PUNIC WARS ofc ! you fight the battle - you need to fight the war as well :) with a battle you don't make the spring.
@@xjuliussx oh I see haha, well we may do one of our map based ones in the future 👍
What % of a Hannibal set is that?
I think it's about 1/3
@@7thson726 im thinking if i get this set imma use the whole hannibal set just to see the scale of it
Hi mate did you see my message about the raffle prize?
Hello bud, yeah I did, I just replied 😁👍
@7thson726 Hi Mate perhaps in 2 or 3 weeks time. I will be visiting Bury on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon to visit drinks delivered to your door. If possible I could drop of the mini drill and raffle prize off ? Cheers
@@grantpavitt3198 hello mate, let me know the dates etc, send me a message and I'll let you know when I'm about as there is the odd weekend I'm away 👍
@@7thson726 OK Martin will do
@7thson726 Good morning. Found a new song on you tube I sent you and Hayley. What about Saturday 31 August morning or afternoon. Or Sunday the 1st September morning or afternoon?
How is there no "elephant in the room" joke?
Well 😅 I think we should be ashamed, we'll rectify that next game 😁
Got the set for free a week ago and havent a clue how to play the game
That's pretty cool, if it helps I did this game a few months ago as a sort of "learning" battle report ruclips.net/video/SBMm_7pm_ZM/видео.html
Good report, not seeing the difference in the epic rules to the normal HC rules though 🤷🏼♂️
Thanks 👍 well, there is no difference in the rules. The game has always been scale agnostic though everyone primarily seems to do 28mm. Warlord have just produced this range as an option essentially
Evening, had a panic all setup to watch and the beloved decided to phone at 7 59 :(. Think I may be in trouble for my response once I knew she was ok at work and just wanted a chat on her break :)
Haha ah, are you in trouble now 😅
Generic Slingers... Fron the small Island of Generica, I presume...
😅 they live on the slopes of Mount Bland
The price point of these sets are obnoxious.
The big box is pretty pricey, but that's the battle set, I don't think you'd really need anything else once you had that. But there are the individual division sets as well
The figures look superb, but Hail Caesar is a very bad set of rules and always has been. Clever marketing from Warlord, they have managed to re ignite this set of rules using the ploy of the miniatures. ADLG and MEG (even DBA) are much better rules for the period. You'll end up spending a lot of money investing in all this, if cash is no object, go for it and enjoy but you will quickly see how the rules don't work. Never understood why you have a number to hit on a dice, so you roll and get 4 hits. then your opponent rolls to save the hits and negates the 4 hits.. You are rolling a load of dice twice to get a single result. Never had a good game of Hail Caesar, we ditched it back in 2016.
We've been playing Hail Caesar for years. In 28mm and also in 15mm. Never had a bad game.
@@MiniatureOdyssey no worries, pleased you like the rules, lots of people in our gaming club inc me played them way back and every time there were very erratic combat results and lots of arguments. They just left a bad taste in my mouth
Each to their own 🙂 personally I'm not a fan of MEG but that's the great thing about having so many rulesets, something for everyone 👍
Dear 7th son , have a lovely holiday ,,,,,, how about see that your in Cornwall, a 28mm scale Penisular ,English Revolution game. ,, please.
I'm sure that can be arranged 😁 thanks buddy
I love these games and battle reports, except for the overly dominant talking of one person. There is always one person that explains and talks about everything and the other person barely says anything. Here is the same, Robin barely gets to discuss or talk at all. He doesn’t talk about or do his own explanations about his turns, strategies or anything really. Never understand why have two people if this is really just a solo game with an assistant. I mean robin barely made decisions on what to do on his turns. Will not watch much of this channel because of this as it just really bothers me because it makes it not a 2 person battle.
An interesting take on this. I see that 7th Son is explaining what is going on with the game as its his channel. I'm sure Robin will do the same on his...
I'd disagree with this. There's plenty of discussion back and forth. It makes sense that Martin explains what's going on, not only is it his channel but he's the one holding the camera and it picks up his voice better.
The command phase is fast forwarded which is when loads of conversation happens, it's just summed up at the end.
For added context, @MiniatureOdyssey is Robin...
I think that Robin makes all his own decisions, he just doesn't narrate them. Martin describes what Robin has chosen to do.
So, I sort of would understand your point if there wasn't a whole part of each turn dedicated to the opponent explaining why they have done what they have. I can assure you that I don't play for Robin and his decisions are his own, if I did play for him, with my tactics, he would lose every time 😅
The reason I explain the dice rolls and what is needed, is so that it is clear and concise as I find a lot of battle reports get muddled in checking and ums and errs, here before we roll we clearly state what we are doing and why.
If the channel isn't for you, no worries, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Great report. Really excited for this game. I'm impressed with how many you guys have managed to paint in a short time and film a game. Big up Roman salute🫡😅
Appreciate it, it's been fun but there were a couple of moments where I longed to paint something 28mm again 😅
@7thson726 ha-ha, I'm sure. The mass effect is awesome though. I hope you'll do more epic hail caesar.
Good battle report and great looking game. I’ve always found the Romans need to be played as historically as possible, moving forward all together and maintain a solid battle line otherwise they get defeated in detail with too many groups with too many exposed flanks. The cavalry of course can do their other thing “The risk to the cavalry is……….acceptable” 🏛️
Thanks dude, really pleased you liked it. I think a key to beating the Romans will be breaking the line up, isolating elements and destroying them 😅
@@7thson726 Indeed. If the Roman player splits the army up it’s asking for trouble. Roman armies in big battles tend to be smaller too in ever rule set, so easier to flank. Real Roman commanders never had to bother about points 🤣. Send 2 legions, if that fails, next time send 4, then 6, then 8 until they won.
@@Edward-Plantagenet haha maybe we should do an escalation campaign the same way 😅