A Visit to Ancient Greece and some 3D Prep Work

 Well, we played the new boardgame at Jules place last Friday and it was ......interesting! It was of course a "learning game" - none of us had any idea about the rules or tactics or.... anything, really!

As with most boardgames, not super photogenic - things happen but the look of the board doesn't change much

Typecast, MOI?  Julian assigned me a female character figure! Helen - but not of Troy, I don't believe.

There were three Monuments that we needed to build as part of the way to win the game - this one is Athena

I think this was Zeus

And this one is Hermes - like the aircraft carrier in the Falklands War!

The table laid out for the game

My "hoplites" - we each ahd a total of 15 to recruit

Various monsters that could appear and cause problems for the mortals

The Minotaur took on Chris's hero - and lost!

This one invaded my home territory of Crete but then sat there for most of the game, doing not a lot

I managed to recruit all 15 of the hoplites and looked to push John (green figures) out of his home territory. Chris (blue) to the north took on Julian (red)

My character card 

The turn sequence and how the combat works (below)

The table at the end (2240) I had my Hoplites surround the only completed monument - If I could hold it for three turns, I would be victorious - Chris said I had won - Julian pointed out Chris also had a potential route to victory, but after five hours we had all had enough so we stopped at this point!

I thought a few readers might be interested to see what the Battle Honours 3D figures look like with supports on .......... 

And a minute or so later, with the supports removed. It really was a pretty simple process, the figures more or less just "peeled" away from the supports.

I really like the way the mortar and crew are a single piece print