Ilium: A Game of (god-forsaken) Heroes
I had a nice little mid-week game of Ilium: A Game of Heroes this week when Mrs Irregular Wars decided she wanted a go and we had a skirmish fought on the Trojan plain between the opposing lines of massed soldiery. Opting to go with Achaean blue, she started the skirmish with Idomeneus, king of Crete (top centre), and Machaon, Lord of Trikka (top left), on the board. They faced off against my red Trojans, running the Trojan prince, Helenos (bottom centre), and his cousin, the Dardanian prince Aeneas (bottom right). At the outset, Trojan archer made a mockery of the Achaean shield-bearers, dropping two and having an arrow ricochet of a third to hit Idomeneus, causing three gruesome wounds. Machaon dashed forward to assist Idomeneus and heal two of his wounds, before the wounded Cretan king led his promachoi forward, hurling his own spear to wound Helenos, but otherwise having little impact. Aeneas led his Dardanians forward and laid waste to the Cretan promachoi before them....