Tyrant of Cyprus: Honour the Fallen

Honour the Fallen

Thrusticles, Tyrant of Salamis has abducted Perplexia, maiden of Cition.  On his way back to Salamis he discovers the remains of a battlefield, loot is everywhere but the maiden's father Hermes Parcelippus is in pursuit with his warband and the two sides face off over the bodies of the fallen.  

Scenario 1: Honor the Fallen

Free-for-all or team fight. Since the days of Homer individual  warriors have sought glory and riches by stripping foes of their arms and armor. Two warbands come across a fresh battlefield and decide to take advantage of the situation.

Setup and Deployment

• All players roll off, high roll determines attacker and low roll determines defender. 

• Starting with the attacker, players alternate placing seven casualty tokens anywhere on the board more than 6” from any edge and more than 3” from any other casualty token. 

• Starting with the attacker, each player now chooses a board edge and places their warband within 3”.

Special Rules

• When a character activates in the movement phase, they may strip the armor from a casualty token within 1”. 

Remove the casualty token from the board. That character may not move or shoot during that turn.

• A model cannot strip a casualty token while in combat or when an enemy character is within 1” of the token. 

• At the end of the game, you may strip any casualty tokens within 1” of a friendly character that are not within 1” of any enemy models.

Thrusticles Tyrant of Salamis 

Peniscles Of Cition.  Yes I know he's a Samnite but I ran out of Greeks!

Old Hermes himself

Euclitius of Salamis (another Samnite interloper)

The fallen

The Game

The opposing phalanx form up

The lines close

The attacker moves in

Allowing the defender to charge.  I have an issue with this.

The Defending CinC and his supporting hero attack.

Thrusticles boys fight back

And although the left is pushed back Thrusticles the Tyrant

The Defender's hoplites smash aside a unit of slingers who fail to evade.

The defender kills off one of the Salamis sacred band.

The Tyrant turns the line.

And it's a mad melee that the Attacker's are winning on better dice.

The enemy General goes down.  His panoply becomes one of the spoils.

The end game.  The Defender's have lost unit after unit.

My treasury of Comedic Ancient Greeks!

Sorecratarse

Hippohippsus

Implausias

Oopsides

Euclit

Eugetitties

Herodoltus

Peniscles

Herpicles

Syphilis

Hepatitis

Gonorrhea

The Lady Chlamydia

Nippleclipsias

Alcopopiades