The low aggression of the Gallic army allowed them to pick the battlefield and populate it with terrain.
I tried to stay compact to keep my hitting force together and hopefully engage him piecemeal.
But the terrain was a nightmare for the blades; I just don't know how to fight like this. What a shellacking!
I've snuck the five bases of blades I previously did into this shot to show the complete 24AP army.
I needed to finish up some horses.
These look pretty good but are a bit brittle, especially after I cut them off their bases!
I also did a bunch of shooters.
This fellow seems to have picked up his bow after he cut the lawn. Everytime I see him I think he's shouting "we will rock you!".
I also did some putty work and customizing to make this hero general. I have a hero magician on the works.
These are all plastics from GW (excepting the flyer) that I have gotten either as trades or through buying remainders. The flyer is a piece from Reaper called a murder of crows.
Overall, a good start. there are some chariots (knights) as well as a bunch more shooters and then some hordes to do. I quite like Tim Brown's notion that the main skeleton troop should be hordes. I'd also like to do a lurker.
To complete this project I needed to knock off another three bases of legion (4Bd).
The detail that can be pulled out of these plastics is really good. 
I also needed to do a base of 4Ax.
Here is the fully army, ready to rumbled with all options.
And a tighter shot. I just need to make a camp and a measuring stick and I'm ready to go!
The command stand was pre-assembled by the last owner so all I did was paint and base. 
I went with green after experimenting with a couple of different themes, including a washed-out mismash. I think I will do a mismash for the hordes stands but assumed these elite skeletons would be a bit more orderly with uniform colours (a household guard, perhaps).
Overall, these figures have nice details front and back. I believe they are plastic GW Tomb Kings. I have a couple of extra sprues that I'm fiddling with now to make a couple of magician types. Maybe with flowing robes and whatnot.
There are some nice shields in this set.
I did some wet-on-wet blending to get some interesting colour patterns.
I think they scale nicely against these Wargames Factory Romans.
Chen and Justin played a game of Chain Reaction while four guys played Warmachine.
Dave and Scott played a grudge match of Impetus, with Scott pitting his Macedonians against Dave's Romans. Scott's elephant looked cool but didn't do a very good job for him!
This was the situation when I left but I understand Scott eked out a draw (good work!).
Andy and I played a bit of Full Thrust Star Trek. Game one was a straight up fight with many small ships versus a few big ones. I got into a turning fight with the damned klingons and got blown to pieces (KHAAAAAAN!). Stupid tactics on my part. Then we played a scenario where I played the Klingons, bravely flying through the asteroid belts and still got shot to pieces. Andy almost walked home!
Up next: I have a bunch of 28mm skeletons based and ready to shoot. Perhaps I'll try to build the remaining legionnaires for my Marian 28mm DBA army this weekend.
There are two elements of 1El. These fellows were tricky, with separate ears (!) to glue on. Blue tack, gel crazy glue and a lot of swearing were necessary! But they are finished and, I think, look pretty good.
There are two elements of 2LH--Numidian horse with animal print shields.
There are two 3Cv elements, including a Cv General with Hannibal in charge.
There are also three elements of 4Sp.
And three elements of 3Wb.
There are four bases of 2Ps. I thought these had nice character.
Finally, there was one element of 4Ax. For whatever reason, I based these as two elements of 2Ps (below). I have since soaked them off their base and will be putting them together on the proper base tonight. Duh.
Up next: I have finished painting five bases of 28mm HoTT skeletons. I think I will mount these as blade as they are formed warriors and have some more ragtag skeletons as hordes. After these, I would like to finish the 28mm Legionnaires I need to complete the Marian army.
I've tried a couple of different approach to this. I've tried gaming Lee's attack but getting a quasi-historical match-up requires the American player to either act like an idiot or have a crippling set-up (fun, fun!). I've tried gaming the rout, where Washington has to go around and rally each unit while it flees and is pursued--that is more interesting but hard to get right. Finally I've tried picking up the game where Washington has established a defensive line of sorts and both sides feed troops into the battle. Coincidentally, this is the approach take in the British Grenadier scenarios book.
We played out the latter scenario with the Americans started deployed and disordered, far across the board. The British arrive and initially are overpowering, but the reinforcements can very much change the play balance--if the Americans can survive long enough. Bruce played the British and adopted a two-pronged approach with the reinforcements supporting his left wing. He quickly drove in my left wing, which spent the whole game retreating until the met with reinforcements and I managed to break his grenadiers with cannon.
Over on my right flank, the British were overwhelming... except a single militia unit managed to hold up his entire thrust (survive right to the end of the game) and dealt death to anyone who came close. A very dramatic action!
Eventually, though, Bruce's reinforcements arrived and started to push back my crescent defence by flanking it and peeling the line back. We had very asymmetrical rolls this game with Bruce winning almost every initiative roll but having a hard hard in combat whereas my boys clearly had their dander up!
Bruce used this to his advantage, out maneuvering me while I held on hoping to inflict enough casualties for the game to end. Below you can see the end game as Bruce suddenly kills off two units and breaks my morale. Overall, a pretty good game that was tense right down to the line. I would probably have been wise to fall back some more but felt obligated to support my brave militia unit.
I realized at the end we had forgotten to use the "hot day" mechanic which suggests to me that it was not a good mechanic. I will try to cook something up that affected cohesion tests--maybe reducing the cohesion test by one or making it impossible to rally off disorders? It looks to me that replayability is high, with various placement options and different strategies for both sides.
