Playing the Fall of Hispania Campaign

I’ve been reflocking my Fall of Roman armies and wanted to take them for a spin. I prefer scenarios but these are unusual in this period, pick up games being more common. I decided to put our pick up games in a context and came up with the Fall of Hispania Campaign mechanism.

The Fall of Hispania Campaign system can be used with any rules but we started with Field of Glory then moved into a series of fast play rules, e.g. Big Base DBA, Dux Bellorum and Red Spear, Black Crow.

417AD-20 Late Roman army
417AD-20 Late Roman army in Dux Bellorum

The campaign is played in a series of rounds, corresponding to a particular year. There are big gaps between years to mimic the pattern of battles from history.

In the Fall of Hispania Campaign a player gains two victory point for each battle they win and one victory point for each draw. Results are shown as points, wins and losses e.g. “4P2W3L” means 4 points, from 2 victories, and 3 losses.

Campaign Year Game Date Chris Steven Tactical Rules National Score
409 13 Apr 2010 Alan Win
2P1W0L
Roman Loss
0P0W1L
Field of Glory Al 2P1W0L
Ro 0P0W1L
413 1 Nov 2014 Vandal Loss
2P1W1L
Visigoths arrived
Visigoth Win
2P1W1L
Big Base DBA Al 2P1W0L
Ro 0P0W1L
Va 0P0W1L
Vi 2P1W0L
417 8 Nov 2014 Roman Win
4P2W1L
Visigoth Loss
2P1W2P
Dux Bellorum Al 2P1W0L
Ro 2P1W1L
Va 0P0W1L
Vi 2P1W1L
442 Rolled Byzantines, but they hadn’t arrived so 20 years of peace instead
446 15 Nov 2014 Suevi Loss
4P2W2L
Vandal Win
4P2W2L
Red Spear, Black Crow Al 2P1W0L
Ro 2P1W1L
Su 0P0W1L
Va 2P1W1L
Vi 2P1W1L
448 28 Jan 2017 Roman Win
6P3W2L
Visigoth Loss
4P2W3L
One Hour Wargames Al 2P1W0L
Ro 4P2W1L
Su 0P0W1L
Va 2P1W1L
Vi 2P1W2L
454 4 Feb 2017 Roman Loss
6P3W3L
Suevi Win
6P3W3L
One Hour Wargames Al 2P1W0L
Ro 4P2W2L
Su 2P1W1L
Va 2P1W1L
Vi 2P1W2L
457 Alan Suevi
476 Fall of the Western Roman Empire

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