Hail Caesar Battle Report Pyrrhic Greeks vs Romans Game 2 Legendary Bolt Thrower edition

Well, last week's news of Julius Caesar falling in battle were clearly blown out of proportion, since he is back at it again vs the Pyrrhic Greeks. The legend-level mercenray bolt thrower keeps sniping, but will it survive?

[@MegaTCash]

Great to see the armies on the field of battle - nice work you two!

[@paulbenson9015]

Thank you Gents, have just invested in the Hail Ceasar II rules, and your last two vids were very interesting. Really enjoy your Channel. Keep Goin Cheers 👍🥃

[@vonketteringham]

Great vid with excellent armies 👍

[@MattVarnish1103]

Thanks! It was very fun, the combat feels right.

[@fogh]

Great looking armies and a great game 👍. Thanks for the report.

[@MattVarnish1103]

Anytime, though I have a few new officers for my Covenanters so we need to get back to Pike & Shotte :)

[@laurentdhennequin3573]

I am not sure about splitting attacks at the end of the game. I think you add to split between the two phalanxes

[@MattVarnish1103]

'Fighting to the Rear" pg 116 says that I MUST put at least half my attacks to the front. I put ALL my attacks to the front and 0 on my flank.. bcs I wanted to shake n break the wounded unit in front, which I was able to do. Thats why I did that, maybe Im wrong

[@johnp4000]

@@MattVarnish1103 I think you are meant to divide the attacks roughly equally, the option to use all your attacks to the rear or flank is only if you are not attacked to the front?

[@MattVarnish1103]

@@johnp4000 it says in the rules that if I am charged in the flank or rear WHILE I am engaged to the front I have to put at least half up front. Which, since the unit in front was Shaken, I put all 7 attacks to the front, hitting on 5s bcs I was flanked, and zero to the flankers, just to get a wound on him and force another break test, which I got on the unit to my front. Agreed 100% that I can't put more than half on the flankers but I opted to put zero on the flankers

[@johnp4000]

Reading it again, I can see your point, it doesn't say you need to allocate to the flank?

[@MattVarnish1103]

@@johnp4000 At least half of a unit’s attacks must
always be allocated to a unit’s
front if it is engaged to its front.
If engaged to the front by more
than one unit then attacks must
be divided as equally as possible
amongst them. Whatever the situation, a unit
cannot allocate more than half of its
attacks against a flank. < That is the text verbatim. I had one unit engaged to the front, not 2, so no need to split those. So the first sentence, I cannot put more than half my attacks to the flank, so I choose 100% of my attacks to the front, 0 on the flank, in order to cause the Break test on the already-shaken unit of phalngites.

[@clarkcommando1983]

where do you get those dice holders?

[@MattVarnish1103]

They were made by a local guy out of MDF for Lasalle but they are perfect for Hail Caesar / Pike and Shotte, etc because one dice is for the current stamina and the other is the overage when you roll your break test.

[@clarkcommando1983]

@@MattVarnish1103 if there is anyway he would make more or send me the specs I would gladly pay for a set :)

[@MattVarnish1103]

@@clarkcommando1983 You can easily make them with plasticard base and then the plastic rods cut up.. it was just easier to use this guys' Lasalle ones.

[@clarkcommando1983]

@@MattVarnish1103 perfect thnx

[@clarkcommando1983]

How big is the table?

[@MattVarnish1103]

6ft by 4ft, hence why we are using smaller units otherwise the unti frontages would be real wide and limit the manouvere

[@clarkcommando1983]

@@MattVarnish1103 perfect regular game requires 12x4 ? Also remind me how many points you did ?

[@MattVarnish1103]

@@clarkcommando1983 Agreed, even 12 by 6, but we were limited to playing in that room and not use the bigger tables, but would have necessitated moving couches and so on. 500pts

[@clarkcommando1983]

@@MattVarnish1103 I get it keep up the great work I’m new so totally enjoy watching keeps me motivated :)