Punic Wars Campaign

Having spent a long period with nowhere to live I now find myself with the luxury of living in two places at the same time. However, neither has either phone line nor broadband and so my postings here remain rather infrequent. However, briefly passing through somewhere connected I thought that I would, entirely for my own benefit, write up the first two weeks of the Punic Wars campaign that James is laying on at the moment.

During the entire Punic Wars they never killed anyone

My main problem in taking part is having no real idea of a) what happened during the Punic Wars b) the boardgame being used for the map parts (indeed I can't even remember the name of it) or c) Command & Colours Ancients being used to play out the battles. However, not knowing the history or the rules is my default setting and so I have pressed on regardless.

James is doing a card by card write-up over at Olicanalad so I will simply give the highlights or indeed the lowlights. My greatest triumph so far as the Romans has been to give Hannibal the pox before he crossed the Alps allowing me to attack him with superior numbers. Sadly a combination of his higher rating as a general and my ineptitude at C&C led to a fairly easy Cartheginian victory. Still, given that my understanding of how to play both elements of the game can only get better and on the assumption that not all Roman generals can be as crap as the one defeated here one mustn't be too pessimistic.