The gate is raised and the lion jumps into the arena going directly against Spartacus, who also advances towards it. They meet in the middle of the arena, with the lion attacking first with 4d10, and Spartacus defending with 3d10. Spartacus, helped with the height advantage, passes two more dice than the lion and slices its head, severely wounding and stunning the poor beast, who gives ground intimidated by the gladius.Now Spartacus strikes back and passes again two more dice than the lion, deeply thrusting its flank and forcing it to give ground once more. It seems the beast is no match for a trained and armed fighter.
Again the lion attacks with 4d10 and Spartacus defends with 3d10, who barely manages to contain the beast. Spartacus tries again but the lion is getting wise and passes 1d10 more than Spartacus, who cannot avoid receiving such a deep and fierce swipe on his left leg that even his ochrea goes away with it! He burns 5d10 and gives ground, leaving a trail of blood in front of him. The lion, sensing its opportunity, rises on its two hind paws and bash attacks the bleeding man.Its powerful roar in triumph is only deafened by that of the crowd, that also senses that something fatal is about to happen. But Spartacus still has some tricks under his helmet and forces the beast back once again. Then, he suddenly launches a swift whirlwind attack with his two gladius, and passing 2 more dice than his enemy, he badly cuts it again, this time on one of its paws.
The opportunity passes away and the lion surrenders and lays on the arena, exhausted and bleeding to death. Spartacus waves theatrically to the crowd and then finishes off the defeated king!Spartacus wins another laurel for this easy victory on the lion, plus six Advance points. Spartacus has now a total of 34 Advance points and 225 Fame points; he is still Rep 6.
Excellent report as always. Spartacus is invincible!!! You will need to try much harder to get him killed...
ReplyDeleteI definitely need to get myself some cool gladiator miniatures. Still unsure if I should go 15mm or 20mm - both scales are cheap, portable(!) and fast to paint. I need nothing more ;)
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Mahon
Chest of Colors: All About Miniature Painting
¡Crucificadle!
ReplyDeleteSeguro que de ahí no sale, aunque sé de uno que cuentan que resucitó al tercer día, y luego .....
@Mahon, why don't you go 28mm? You only need a handful of figures and you certainly know how to paint them.
ReplyDelete@Slorm, ¿qué te ha hecho el pobre Espartaco? :)
Javier,
ReplyDeleteI would love to go 28mm or even 54mm... The bigger gladiators the better. But as you see - this is a game you don't play very often, so the minis and scenery will spend most time stored somewhere. And my storage space is unfortunately limited and going to shrink even more now that I will have to give our miniatures room/workshop to our baby boy as his own room... So I am considering moving to smaller scales to be able to pack all my projects in just a few boxes - as small as possible. I would also like to use as few scales for my projects as possible, so that my minis and scenery can be re-used in different projects.
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Mahon
Chest of Colors: All About Miniature Painting
I can understand you perfectly as I also lost my room for my baby. And as you can see I'm shifting and using smaller scales, but still I'm using 28mm to play out from home.
ReplyDeleteMy problem with space is not having where to play big battles and no room to store 28mm scenery, but RSBS doesn't need any of these.
Cheers,