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Historicon 2019 Live Blog - Part One!

Historicon 2019 Live Blog - Part One!

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Warhammer Ancients - The Battle Of Plataea

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Gerry gets a look at the Battle of Plataea, with a Greek alliance facing off against a huge Persian force

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torros
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Warhammer ancient battles isn’t a favourite but many years ago we did a bathtub version of this battle using Vis Bellica

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Very interesting and is definitely something different than 2 straight battle lines walking towards each other. Though I did think we were going to get a rendition of the Grand of Duke of York with all the going up and down the hill!

avernos
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Weirdly there is a spartan version of that poem from antiquity

zorg
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interesting.

tmon
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Interesting military battle!!

zoidpinhead
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I’m a WAB fan still, despite the buckets-o-dice mechanics. Great to see such an intereting battle being shown.

longshotte
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Ancients! One of my favorites.

oriskany
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We tried to cover a lot of it, in different systems too.

goban
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WAB is great for getting new people into historical. There was a time everyone knew the rules just in a different context.

nosbigdamus
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Very nice idea and like most people, never heard of it. History lesson for me.

oriskany
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In many ways this was the battle that was actually important in how this war turned out, rather than Thermopylae (as @avernos says) but I might also add Salamis.

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