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Bonus post: game on, those who are about to die salute you!

Jul 13 2019 @ 23:51 14 Comments

It’s the end of day three and it’s time for a game, my pick for the evening is a gladiatorial battle.

Bonus post: game on, those who are about to die salute you!

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turbocooler

That is amazing and I would play just to experience playing in such in an epic setting

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phaidknott

Sons of Mars making an outing, do let us know what you felt after playing a game (been tempted by this one and keep looking away every time I’m at the NorthStar website). I’m still waiting to hear whats going on with the Gladiators in plastic eM4 were planning on doing 🙂

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gladesrunner

“ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?”

or for a more recent reference…

“Capua, now shall I begin”

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oriskany

A gift … from the House of Batiatus … Lanister to the greatest gladiators in all the Republic!

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templar007

Very nice work on the Arena.

Is it wrong that I first look for the rules system and then started figuring out the easiest way to build an arena for myself like that one and how to do it so that it stores away easily?

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tmon

Excellent elephant!!

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damon

Fantastic terrain piece.
Gladiators makes for a fun skirmish game.
Really appreciate the variety of coverage OTT is putting out for this event

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lupa15

I agree! The terrain really makes the experience that much better!

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oriskany

Really appreciate the variety of coverage OTT is putting out for this event Thanks! This is something that @avernos and I were really going for. Get at least a little of every subgenre, system, etc. The one exception was sci fi. There were a FEW … mainly 40K and BattleTech. We walked past the 40K tables because, well, 40K … and walked past the BattleTech tables (despite my personal love of that universe) because … 1) Fair is fair, if we’re walking past 40K … 2) This is HISTORICON. 3) The BattleTech tables were “BattleTech Minimalist” … pretty much a… Read more »

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limburger

An elephant ? Isn’t that a tad unfair ? 😉

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dignity

Not really 🙂 it only turned up at the end of the game to cause a little havoc

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zorg

Many men enters one lion leves? or elephant.

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jemmy

That Looks nice. Reminds me of the amphitheatre I saw in Trier. Although the Trier arena is far smaller. One on one fights, animal fights, reenacting of real battles, all included?

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zorg

One of John’s relatives with a Mk1 tank got a game.