Hail Caesar

[Stuart]

Just picked up the rulebook. May look at going 15mm for this though - got any recommendations on where to look for figures Si (A)?

[Gareth]

Wtf? With you having this, me getting FoW, it will not be long, before we turn into the Evesham club.

[Simon]

We'll need to discuss opposing forces.

There's lots to look at and get interested in:

Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Indians, Macedonians, Romans,
Thracians, Dacians, Celts, Germanic Tribes etc

For 15mm, I like the look of Corvus Belli figures.

Essex miniatures have an extensive range.

But I'm still undecided as to whether to go for the 28mm warlord stuff.

Si

[Stuart]

Rulebook arrived today, currently drooling over some of the Warlord miniatures pictured within.

[sprogmcjob]

is there a carthagian army list??? i know carthage was an early force in terms of roman history but i find them really intresting

[Simon]

One of the great opponents for the Romans, and probably the biggest of the wars they fought.

At present there aren't really any army lists for Hail Caesar. They are on the horizon. AFAIK the idea behind the rules was to fight specific historical battles. So this meant researching the numbers of troops used in a particular engagement and scaling it according to the ruleset.

Don't forget that in most historical rules, 1 figure can represent hundreds of men.

However, they are producing some army lists (there is a rudimentary example in the back of the rules) for those who want to fight less formally.

I'm guessing Carthage will be present.

There are DBM lists for Carthaginian armies on the internet, that give some idea of the forces.

A quick skank round finds some nice 28mm figures here

or 15mm ones here

[Stuart]

A quick skank round finds some nice 28mm figures here

Ooo, they have pirates too.

[Stuart]

is there a carthagian army list??? i know carthage was an early force in terms of roman history but i find them really intresting

You'll be wanting elephants then

[Stuart]

It looks like the first set of army lists from Warlord are available now, covering the biblical and classical periods: http://store.warlordgames.com/hail-caesa...7121-p.asp

Armies covered are:

Biblical

• Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt
  
• Nubian
  
• Akkad and Sumer
  
• Early Arab Raiders
  
• Amorite Babylonia
  
• Canaanites
  
• Hittites
  
• Mitanni
  
• Mycenean and Minoan
  
• New Kingdom Egyptian
  
• Early Assyrian
  
• North European Bronze age
  
• Libyan
  
• Sea Peoples
  
• Israel and Judeah
  
• Assyrian Empire
  
• Neo-Babylonian
  
• Urartu
  

Classical

• Scythian
  
• Saite Egyptian
  
• Lydian
  
• Kyrenean Greek
  
• Early Achaemenid Persian
  
• Early Carthaginian
  
• Hoplite Greek
  
• Thracian
  
• Samnites
  
• Later Hoplite Greek army
  
• Pauravan and Mauryan Indians
  
• Syracusian
  
• Camillan Rome
  
• Gauls
  
• Illyrian
  
• Later Achaemenid Persian
  
• Alexandrian Macedonian
  
• Qin China
  
• Alexander's Successors
  
• Hellenistic Greek
  
• Bactrian Grek
  
• Carthaginian
  
• Galatians
  
• Parthians
  
• Republican Rome
  
• Numidian
  
• Merotic Kushite
  
• Spanish
  
• Late Macedonian
  
• Seleucid
  
• Ptolemaic
  
• Han China
  
• Pyrrhic
  
• Celtiberian
  
• Early German
  
• Maccabean Jewish
  
• Sarmatians
  
• Artaxiad Armenian
  
• Ancient Britons
  
• Mithandric Pontic
  
• Dacian
  
• Marian Roman
  
• Imperial Roman
  
• Jewish Revolt
  
• Kushan
  

Work is apparently underway on the next set, covering the late antiquity, dark age and medieval periods.

[sprogmcjob]

i saw in that list they had early carth as well im up for this when it comes out then hopefully its a fun play system