Gladiators Week Eight

Not much turn out this evening, just Rick, Christian and myself...

Before the games, we checked to see if any of the injured gladiators recovered.

Publius Gnaeus Mediocritus finally (FINALLY) recovered fro his wounds! And just in time, because Christian finally (FINALLY) was able to make it out this week!!

Aximae made no recovery and remained incapacitated.

Darkus Daius made a full recovery and returned to training this week.

Noobus made a remarkable recovery and was back to strength and returned to training. Hipp O’Potomus and Monotonous, however, both picked up some sort of infection and each gained a wound – bringing them both to THREE!!! .

Sabrina remained pretty seriously injured and Sura both made full recoveries this week. Sabrina was lucky on the dice, recovering two, Sura recovered one but got a bonus heal-up because Amanda actually READ last weeks post and made a comment… Pay attention the rest of you…

Game One

Three on Three

Gladiators:
Vorro, Cruxus and Oxus versus Publius Gnaeus Mediocritus, Unhygenix and Metallugix

I couldn't even be bothered to do a page for Cruxus and Oxus... sorry. Cruxus was the latest incarnation of Crixus/Craxus... and Oxus was a gladiator I quickly made up myself to even up the odds....

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Oxus makes for his opponents then realizes his “partners” are still on their knees praying to their pagan gods..


A bit of smack-talk gets a couple of the gladiators crying… bucha babies…


In his first round of combat Oxus laid a mighty blow on Unhygenix – like SIX wounds… the bugger soaked FIVE of them!? Would have been a totally different game…


Publius got into it and took advantage of Oxus’ wild attack – knocking him further off balance (shaken)


Oh, it became a big brawl…


Everyone just hamering on each other.


Oxus deal two wounds to Publius as well and it was looking up for his team…


Then Cruxus took THREE wounds!


A turn or two he went down…


Then it was Vorro…


Then all three opponents were ganging up on Oxus. On of them dealt HIM six wounds – which he soaked three of (using his lat benny) he took a dive but didn’t have the audiences favour and was slain…

Unhygenix and Metallurgix

Ludus Christian has gone and bought a pair of batsh!t crazy Gaullic brothers to fight for them... They refuse to wear armour...


Unhygenix – Wildcard Gladiator - Christian
Ag d8, Sm d6, Sp d4, St d6, Vg d6,
Pace 6, Parry 9, Toughness 5, Charisma -2, Encumbrance 0
Skills: Fighting d8, Notice d4, Intimidate d6, Taunt d8,
Edges: Strong Willed, Acrobat
Hindrances: Outsider, Loyal
Gear: Gladius (Damage: Str+d6), Superior Large Shield

Metallurgix – Wildcard Gladiator - Christian
Ag d8, Sm d4, Sp d4, St d6, Vg d8,
Pace 6, Parry 9, Toughness 6, Charisma -2, Encumbrance 0
Skills: Fighting d10, Notice d6, Intimidate d4, Taunt d4,
Edges: Berserk, Trademark Weapon
Hindrances: Outsider, Loyal
Gear: Gladius (Damage: Str+d6), Superior Large Shield

Gladiators Week Seven

I’ve been working on some new walls for an arena. They’re not finished yet, but you might spot them in the bacground of a few shots here… Hopefully I’ll be able to populate them with some Roman Civilian spectators (and slave girls!) at some point (hopefully before the campaign fizzles…).

There were a few new characters this week after last week’s bloodbath. Afterwards I pointed out that if any of them ever wanted to level-up – let alone make it to seasoned – they’d have to stop making bloodthirsty-mean-ugly characters and maybe start looking at Hard to Kill, Quick Healer and charisma boosting edges….

Because Arrogant wasn’t really all that bad for a major hindrance I’ve decided that Arrogant characters will not take a dive. Also I’m now allowing Loyal – which is similar – Loyal characters cannot take a dive while other teammates are still fighting.


Of course, before the battles, we checked to see if any of the injured recovered.

Publius Gnaeus Mediocritus has some sort of lingering infection and STILL showed no signs of further recovery. Hipp O’Potomus remained seriously injured while Monotonous looked a little less like he was about to die (recovering one wound – two remain). Sabrina remained pretty seriously injured, but Sura finally made a full recovery and returned to action this week.


Game One

Bloodsport – bloodthirsty versus bloothirsty

Gladiators:

Sonja versus Orangeus Saladus.

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The gladiators enter the new arena…


No smack talk – they just charge in and get to business


Pretty quick Sonja had Orangeous reeling from a telling blow.


Once off balance it didn’t take long until he was one the ground… One more bloodthirsty character bites the dust.


Game Two

Ludus Daveous vs Ludus Patrician

Gladiators:

Darkus Daius
Siberius

Versus

Noobus
Trius Aurelius


Siberius tried to give his blind teammate some directions but Darkus was having a hard time hearing due to the roar of the crowd…


He did, however, hear Noobus approaching – hard not to when approaching at a run – and was able to defend himself for a turn or two.


Siberius, incensed by Noobus’ insensitivity (beating on a blind man and all) ran over and laid the smack down – attacking with two hand weapons - his fighting (to hit) rolls were both 18(!?) – both raises. He scored a total of SEVEN wounds between the two, but Noobus somehow managed to soak six of them (beginner’s luck?)

Trius joined the fight and Darkus was left to attempt to fight the bewildered Noobus.


Trius kept nipping in and out of combat…


Noobus seriously wounded Darkus, who took a dive. A Crowd favourite, they took pity on him and he was spared.


Siberius was left to battle the two from Ludus Daveous.


They took turns charging in and taking cracks at him


Eventually they brought him down and he did not survive the day….


Game Three

Ludus Amandus vs Ludus Rickus

Gladiators:

Sura
Sarona

Versus

Aximae
Vorro


There was a great deal of smack talk to start this one… everyone approaching very slowly…


Very, VERY slowly all attempting to taunt or intimidate everyone from the opposintg ludus.


Someone said something nasty that made Aximae cry for a couple turns while Saron and Sura ganged up on Vorro.


Eventually Aximae pulled himself together and joined in the battle.


A mighty blow from his great axe seriously injured Sura who took a dive and called it a day. Being the most beautiful Gladiator around she was spared.


Aximae was then able to turn his attention to Sarona.

Sarona found herself then fighting both of Ludus Rickous’ brutes.

I seemed to have stopped taking photos at this point… Sarona really held her own – she beat down Aximae (incapacitating him) and fought off Vorro for some time, eventually she was seriously wounded and took a dive (figuring it’d be better to take a thumb roll at -2 than a bleed out roll at -4….) alas she was not favoured buy the crowd and was finished off by Vorro!

With everyone not making bloodthirsty characters this week the death rate dropped a little… though there were some serious injuries…

Is anyone actually reading this....? Bonus benny or a free wound recovery for one character of everyone that comments (well... that's playing in the campaign... anyone else that comments... um... will get to read future game reports...?)

Darkus Daius

painted by Patrick

Darkus Daius - Wildcard Gladiator - Patrick
Ag d4, Sm d4, Sp d8, St d6, Vg d8,
Pace 6, Parry 7, Toughness 6 (7), Charisma +2, Encumbrance 0
Skills: Fighting dX, Notice dX, Stealth dX, Intimidate dX, Throwing dX, Taunt dX, Repair dX
Edges: Fast Healer, Hard To Kill, Attractive
Hindrances: Blind … yeah…. Really…
Gear: Superior Light Armour, Trident (Str+d8, +1 Parry, Reach1),

Siberius

Painted by Patrick

Siberius – Wildcard Gladiator - Patrick
Ag d8, Sm d4, Sp d6, St d6, Vg d6,
Pace 6, Parry 8, Toughness 6 (9), Charisma -2, Encumbrance 0
Skills: Fighting d12, Notice d6,
Edges: Brawny, Ambidextrous
Hindrances: Arrogant, Outsider, Gloater
Gear: Gladius (Damage: Str+d6), hand Axe (Damage: Str+d6), Superior Heavy Armour,

Noobus

Painted by Patrick

Noobus - Wildcard Gladiator - Dave
Ag d8, Sm d4, Sp d4, St d10, Vg d4,
Pace 8 (+d10 run), Parry 10, Toughness 8 (10), Charisma 0, Encumbrance 0
Skills: Fighting d12, Stealth d8,
Edges: Fleet-footed
Hindrances: None
Gear: Superior Light Armour, Gladius (Damage: Str+d6), Inferior Large Shield

Trius Aurelius

Painted by Patrick

Trius Aurelius - Wildcard Gladiator - Dave
Ag d8, Sm d4, Sp d10, St d4, Vg d4,
Pace 5, Parry 8, Toughness 5 (7), Charisma 0, Encumbrance -2!!
Skills: Fighting d8, Stealth d4, Intimidate d12,
Edges: Hard to Kill, Charismatic
Hindrances: Obese, Loyal
Gear: Average Medium Armour, Spear (Damage: Str+d4, Reach 1), Average Small Shield