Zac v Jason & the Argonauts

 

After my busy terrain building day with Lee, last Saturday, on the Sunday, my nephew Zac came over for his first ever Wargame.

Zac loves anything to do with Greek Mythology, so for Christmas last year I bought and painted up some Jason and the Argonauts figures from Foundry, see here.

We only have 11 figures at the moment, 6 Argonauts and 5 Skeletons (Children of the Hydra), so I made up a very, very simple set of rules, to try and get Zac into gaming.

It worked!!

He absolutely loved playing the game.

We played 10 short games and the little tyke beat me in 8 of the games!!!

His dice rolling was absolutely ridiculous, he is certainly a son of Zeus and been been touched by the dice gods!!

I might ask him to pick this weeks lottery numbers for me???

After a couple of games Zac, was realising about tactics, not going for the full frontal assault but going around the flanks, which quite amazed me to be honest.

He seemed to really be getting he rules so, I kept adding more details to the rules, to flesh them out.

He said " You're only changing the rules, because I keep beating you!!"

Little sod!

It was 6's to kill on a D6, but Jason had a D10, to make him more heroic. Zac's Jason went on a rampage for the first few games, mauling my Skeleton's time after time.

Zac felt sorry for me keep losing so, HE, let me play the Argonauts, so I went on a rampage with Jason and Zac killed him in the first melee!

Sigh.......

Zac laughed his head off

The Dice Monster

At the end, of the day, I asked him if he'd enjoyed the games and does he want to come again.

His answer was simple....

"Yes, tomorrow!"

I think there'll be many more fights for Jason and the Dice Monster to come, which is brilliant.

Now I better paint up the rest of the figures, before he beats me up again.