Munera Sine Missione

Jamie and I ran about eight games using Alan Saunders's gladiatorial combat rules last night at the school Christmas Fair.  We charged 50p a game and had about eight or nine different players (most of them under 12) over the course of about two hours.  Some of them played multiple times - Matthew finally won a bout at the fourth attempt!

Spartacus the Thracian

The rules worked well with a minimum of having to look things up as we went along.  We found the easiest gladiators for the kids to use were those with a big shield, light armour and an ordinary melee weapon - a straight 1d6 AP and a sword to hit with were easy to understand.

Verus the Provocator

Better armoured gladiators tended to do well because after a bit of running around, most of the kids settled down to just trade blows in a stand up fight.  Fatigue points were rarely and issue!

We raised a few quid for the PFA but I consider the job of these games to be more about giving the kids something interesting to do and perhaps showing them that there's more to wargaming than Warhammer.

A couple of questions for Alan:

1. If an entangled gladiator cuts his way out of lasso, does the Laquaearius lose his lasso for the remainder of the fight?

Cyrus the Laquaearius

2. If a defender makes his armour save does the attacker lose a fatigue point (as he does if the defender wins the initial die roll)?