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Second game of Poseidon’s Warriors

Hi all!
Thursday night saw John and I have our second go at Poseidon’s Warriors, galley combat in the Ancients period.
Same fleets as last time, John went for Romans, so I got Carthage, except I took elite marines on my triremes rather than a commander. Pete very kindly lent us his new sea cloth again.

The fleets deploy, I went wide, and John tried massing his galleys around his flagship.

John's forces split, I have 8 galleys to his 5 triremes.

My fleet (how do you rotate these things)


First clashes on the left flanks, my hits were telling.

Short, brutal, and the Carthaginians were up

And the main clash is about to happen. A small force attempting to pin John frontally, while my elite quinquiremarines and quadremes attempt to flank John's solid box of galleys.

The main crash, will I get the left in in time.

Initial losses were 2-8 to me, this wouldn't stay like this...

In the centre, we were massively out classed, and kept missing! There would be a lot of driftwood.

With the left clear, and the right contacted, the Roman sandwich was complete! John would swing his left hand squadron to try to deal with my left, which would force me over the 50% break test line.

Anything Carthaginian and in the way was in danger from the Red menace of the Roman flag and its escorts. One hit wasn’t going to break the Italian menace...

The Roman flag and escort attempts to break out through the centre.

The Carthaginian pincer closes.


Neither fleet would come out of this well, but I would have to play cannily as there were too many ships within grappling range of the Romans, with their extra marines and corvus armed galleys.


Many rams go in, again! We were both looking beaten up here.


My flag, cleverly keeping himself out of trouble!


The battle was now two small scraps, both fleets rolling for breaking. John desperately trying to find a rule! There’s only about three pages of them...

On the left, we were in trouble, 5 ships vs two should be comfortable, but this wasn’t!

So, the best course of action was simply to leg it, knowing I could out distance the Roman hulks!

The right hook had worked, The Roman admiral was in danger again.

Crunch!Splinter! Glub!

With the loss of the Roman admiral, and having lost over 50% of his fleet, the Romans turned tale and fled!

Carthaginian losses, looks horrendous, but I started with more gallies than the Romans!

 Roman losses, not a good night to be a Roman admiral!

Mark and Graham on the next door table enjoying a hilarious Black Powder scrap with their lovely 42mm 1866 figures (only painted in gloss enamel, much as HG Wells would want!


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