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28 Nov 2014

Hail Caesar Rules

Hail Caesar 2nd edition



These are my goto set of ancients rules for my 10mm Caesar's Gallic War Project.

Hail Caesar 2nd edition 

War has been a constant throughout the history of mankind. From the first civilisations of Babylon and Egypt to the classical eras of Greece and Rome, and beyond to the medieval wars between England and France, ancient civilisations have massed thousands of soldiers to march against their enemies to clash for dominance and conquest. On the battlefields of history, only the sinew of men and the cunning of generals will prove victorious.

With Hail Caesar, you can raise an army of ancient warriors and take them into battle against your friends, recreating some of the most famous and legendary battles ever fought.

Hail Caesar is a set of massed-battle wargame rules that allow you to recreate any number of battles from throughout ancient history, including all the rules necessary for open conflict and siege assaults.

This 236-page hardback book written by renowned games designer, Rick Priestley updates the Hail Caesar game with amended rules and all new features such as rules for sieges and the extension of the timeline to include such conflicts as the Hundred Years War and the War of the Roses.

Anyone purchasing the new Hail Caesar rulebook for the Warlord Games webstore will also receive a remarkable Warlord resin model of King Richard I, the Lionheart as he wields a fearsome battle axe! The model is supplied with bar and helmet head options.

Hail Caesar 2nd edition, Signed collectors edition



Hail Caesar 2nd edition, Signed collectors edition

This is the Collector's Edition of the 236-page hardback book with several additional features over the standard rulebook:

Gilt-edged pages
2 bookmark ribbons
Endpapers with a full timeline of the huge period of warfare and history covered by the game
There will be only 200 copies of the Collector's Edition available, and each will be hand signed by author Rick Priestley.

Anyone purchasing the new Hail Caesar rulebook for the Warlord Games webstore will also receive a remarkable Warlord resin model of King Richard I, the Lionheart as he wields a fearsome battle axe! The model is supplied with bar and helmets head options.

Hail Caesar Wargaming Rules by Warlord Games

Hail Caesar

Hail Caesar Wargaming Rules by Warlord Games is written by the hugely talented Rick Priestley who is something of an expert in Ancients gaming. Partly because of his studying in antiquities but some would say that it's also because he was there for the most part. So aside from firsthand experience of classical civilisations what else do you get?

A 192 page, full colour, hardback rulebook
By the award winning team that produced Hail Caesar
Covers gaming in periods from biblical times to the Crusades
An exclusive miniature - Titus Aduxas - when you order through the Warlord Games website! download. 


Hail Caesar Supplements

Hail Caesar, Age of Caesar

Hail Caesar, Age of Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was surely the most famous Roman of all time – conqueror, statesman and founder of an empire that would shape the destiny of the world. What’s more, we know just how great a commander he was because he took the trouble to write and tell us so, recording his heroic exploits in all their gloriously impressive detail.

Join the mighty Caesar at the beginning of his glittering career of conquest and refight one of his most famous battles against those heinous enemies of civilisation, the dreaded Germans led by none other than that ambitious fiend Ariovistus of the Suebi.

March with Caesar’s legions into the land of implacable savages as our hero subjugates the barbarous Gauls and confronts that most dangerous of moustachioed monstrosities the treacherous chieftain of the Arverni tribe, Vercingetorix.

Cross the Rubicon and cast your own dice as Caesar pursues his rival Romans across continents in the Roman Civil War, facing his most deadly challenge yet in the form of famed conqueror of the East, Pompey the Great. Fight by Caesar’s side as he wages war for mastery of the Roman World upon battlefields soaked in Roman blood.

Regretfully we cannot tarry, as did Caesar, in the arms of Egypt’s beautiful Queen Cleopatra, but we can join him for the concluding battles of the Civil War in Africa, where we shall at last confront Caesar’s relentless opponents together with the armies of that inveterate enemy of Rome, King Juba of Numidia.

With this supplement for Hail Caesar we invite you to come, see and conquer for yourself in a series of new scenarios representing key battles in the career of Julius Caesar. We take a detailed look at the armies of Rome and her enemies, and we consider the lives of some of the greatest Roman commanders of them all, together with suitable rules to represent them on the tabletop.


Hail Caesar Germania

Hail Caesar Germania

In AD the newly won Roman province of Germania erupted into sudden revolt. The avowed aim of the rebellion's leader, Arminius, was to drive the Roman legions from Germany.

The Roman Governor, Publius Quinctilius Varus, led three legions against the supposed uprising. Varus, his legions, auxiliaries and the entire civilian baggage train were destroyed in the ensuing Battle of the Teutoburger Wald. It was a defeat that shocked the Roman world. German forces rampaged beyond the Rhine, razing Roman forts and settlements, and even dared to cross into Imperial territory in pursuit of the retreating Romans.

This is the story of the Geman rebellion that began in the Teutoburger Wald and the subsequent wars of vengeance and reconquest of the next decade. We follow the Roman general Germanicus - nephew of the Emperor Tiberius - and Aulus Caecina Severus as they hunt down the rebellious tribes, bring them to battle, and win back the Eagles of Rome's Lost Legions.

This 56-page sourcebook, written by Neil Smith, chronicles the devastating blow suffered by the Romans in the Teutoberger Wald at the hands of the Germanic tribes led by Arminius. The battle, also known by the Romans as the Varian Disaster, saw the Germans ambush and destroy three Roman legions and their supporting troops. The book covers both the battle and the aftermath - a period that was something of a watershed for Rome's ambitions in Germany...

Germania also covers the varying tribes that made up the Germanic forces as well as scenarios and special rules.

Hail Caesar Britannia

Hail Caesar Britannia!

In 43AD Aulus Plautius led the Roman legions to the edge of the known world: to the mysterious land of the Britons. The Emperor Claudius demanded a victory, and what better way of doing it than to bring this savage nation under the Roman yoke.

Rome commanded huge armies of professional soldiers with the infrastructure needed to feed, transport, equip and command them. Opposing this mighty military machine was a mere patchwork of tribes and wild barbarian warriors. Refusing to yield to the conquerors, one man emerged as the champion of the Britons: Caractacus! Defeated in open battle, Caractacus turned to guerilla warfare: raiding and ambushing enemy troops on the march. No Roman could defeat him; in the end it was treachery that overcame the Briton's greatest champion: the treachery of Queen Cartimadua of the Brigantes.

It was another Queen of the Britons who, ten years later, led the greatest rebellion of all against Roman rule: Boudica, Queen of the Iceni. Years of resentment and oppression boiled over into a war that almost drove the Romans from Britain altogether, burning London and humbling even the mighty legions.

This then is the story of the Roman invasion of Britain, from the Claudian Conquest and wars of Caractacus until the defeat of Boudica and the destruction of the druids upon Mona. Included in this supplement is a map-based campaign game recreating the invasion, as well as historical scenarios covering the wars of Caractacus and the Boudican revolt.

Hail Caesar Army Lists - Biblical & Classical

Hail Caesar Army Lists - Biblical & Classical

In this, our first expansion for Hail Caesar, Rick presents no less than 63 army lists for the Biblical and Classical periods along with points costs and army composition. It is also replete with the imgaes of fantastic armies that you can expect from a Warlord Games book. The armies covered are  

Biblical
  • Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt
  • Nubian
  • Akkad and Sumer
  • Early Arab Raiders
  • Amorite Babylonia
  • Canaanites
  • Hittites
  • Mitanni
  • Mycenean and Minoan
  • New Kingdom Egyptian
  • Early Assyrian
  • North European Bronze age
  • Libyan
  • Sea Peoples
  • Israel and Judeah
  • Assyrian Empire
  • Neo-Babylonian
  • Urartu

Classical
  • Scythian
  • Saite Egyptian
  • Lydian
  • Kyrenean Greek
  • Early Achaemenid Persian
  • Early Carthaginian
  • Hoplite Greek
  • Thracian
  • Samnites
  • Later Hoplite Greek army
  • Pauravan and Mauryan Indians
  • Syracusian
  • Camillan Rome
  • Gauls
  • Illyrian
  • Later Achaemenid Persian
  • Alexandrian Macedonian
  • Qin China
  • Alexander's Successors
  • Hellenistic Greek
  • Bactrian Grek
  • Carthaginian
  • Galatians
  • Parthians
  • Republican Rome
  • Numidian
  • Merotic Kushite
  • Spanish
  • Late Macedonian
  • Seleucid
  • Ptolemaic
  • Han China
  • Pyrrhic
  • Celtiberian
  • Early German
  • Maccabean Jewish
  • Sarmatians
  • Artaxiad Armenian
  • Ancient Britons
  • Mithandric Pontic
  • Dacian
  • Marian Roman
  • Imperial Roman
  • Jewish Revolt
  • Kushan
96 page softback book.


Hail Caesar Downloads
  1. Hail Caesar Quick Reference Sheet.
  2. Hail Caesar Useful Rules Summary.
For A Full List Of Supplements & Other People's Hail Caesar Downloads Adaptations

Hail Caesar Rules

My Hail Caesar Downloads & Adaptations
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