The List to Rule all Lists…. Sort Of

So this is the list am I aiming towards.

Nothing too fancy but should be fun to play.

Once the group here is fully up to speed with the rules, I will spend the last point as an exploration point.

Now to get back to the painting table / floor :)

Athens ( V -III Cent. BC)
Expert General
	#	Type	M	VBU	I	D	Notes
Upgraded Athenian Hoplite Front Rank	2	FP	5	6	2	B		Long Spear
Athenian Hoplite Rear Rank	2	FP	5	5	2	B		Long Spear
Athenian Hoplite	2	FP	5	5	2	B		Long Spear
Greek Cavalry with Hamippoi	2	CM	10	5	2	B		Pilum ( Two dice attack and defend)
Javelinman	1	S	8	2	0	B		Javelin
					Break Point = 10
Good General
	#	Type	M	VBU	I	D		Notes
Allied Hoplites	2	FP	5	5	2	B		Long Spear
Thracian Cavalry	1	CL	12	4	2	B		Javelin
Greek Peltasts	2	FL	8	4	2	B		Javelin
Javelinman	2	S	8	2	0	B		Javelin
					Break Point = 5
Average Command Structure			12
Army Re-Rolls x 2			10
Army VD Break Point			15
Total Points			399

Prinny Makes a Post

So time for me to start another army… I have a sickness that requires me to buy miniatures.

Or at least that is how it feels sometimes. :)

So Pooch conned me into a Greek army and I thought Athenians would be a nice colourful option, even though we lost the war, at least there is still an Athens.

McZermof should have some great looking angry men on very angry horses to run over our troops as well. (If they ever arrive in New Zealand.)

Pooch handed me a plastic bag at work on Monday filled with Victrix Plastic Greeks and some Little Big Man Transfers; if only it was filled with cash.

The Starting Plastics Pile

So after an evening of assembling figures I had a go at a test figure, below it the result. He is quite shy so you can see more of him once he has some friends.

My Test Figure

The plan is to finish the first stand by Sunday, which will mean only another seven to go :)

Cheers

Prinny

So. The Plan.

Or.. “The worst idea since someone said ‘yeah let’s take this suspiciously large wooden horse into Troy, statues are all the rage this season’.” (Blackadder says it best)

 The whole idea of this stems from the fact that Prinny, McZermof and I are terrible at finishing stuff.

Like most (all?) gamers, we have boxes and boxes of unfinished, half started, finished but now I hate it, "finished and I like it but no one plays the game any more" or "pretty sure I ordered that when I was drunk" armies.

Clearly the only option then was to buy a new army, ACTUALLY FINISH IT and then show it off as how good we are at finishing stuff.

My army of choice?

Hoplites!

Prinny and I had been musing over how cool a Greek army would be in Impetus, and this will be the chance to actually do it. I will take the side of the righteous, brave and all around bestest Spartans, Prinny is planning some Athenians and I think McZermof is going totally left field, and bringing Teutonic Knights.

Our plan is to make a 400 point army of our chosen force, and have it done for a competition this year called Veni Vidi Vici, or V3 for short. The competition is run later this year, so there is a bit of time to paint! Prinny and I have been thinking about building it up to 500 points, because to be honest, it is only an extra couple of Hoplite bases!

My starting point is a box and a half of the Victrix plastic hoplites, along with a whole host of the Little Big Men Studios shield transfers. Conveniently, these arrived this week, so I am planning to get on to assembling my first base tonight.

Now, we will play other forms of Impetus too, especially me as I need to learn how to play the game so that I can not look like a total idiot at V3 later this year!

That is enough for now,

Pooch