Today was the day, long awaited. David Sullivan, Dave Schueler, Dave Demick and I met at Meeples in West Seattle to try David’s adaptation of the Lion Rampant rules to the Conquest of Mexico. Last night I sat down and made some quick play sheets for the Quetzacoatl Rampant adaptation. . This morning I laminated them.I reorganized Aztecs according to the rules. I have thirteen units instead of eleven.
This morning I piled by prized collection into the car, and I picked up Dave D. in Tacoma at 9:00, grabbed Brother Schueler in West Seattle, and we actually made it to Meeples before the store opened at 10:00
I knew the table space would be fair small, and I was okay with that for our first run through. I love playing games-miniatures or boardgames-in the Meeples cafe. It is terribly comfortable, if small. The food and beer is tasty and cheap. And because what we do isn’t typically what is played at the store, there are always folks interested in what we are playing.
I set up the table with the Spanish advancing on an Aztec village. The Spanish had a unit of horse, five of sword and buckler men, two arquebusiers, a dog pack, and a unit of Tlaxcallan allies. The Aztecs had four units of skirmishers, a unit of Eagle knights, three units of veteran warriors and two units of peasant warriors.
I didn’t have any expectations. The Aztecs were pretty outclassed, but didn’t know by how much. Let’s just put it this way, the Spanish won in a walkover. There were Spanish figure losses, but the Aztecs, though they pointed out about the same as the Spanish, were not able to do much to them.
We went over some simple changes that would balance out the rules: reducing the Spanish armor value by a point, improving the Aztec’s move, shoot and attack values, reduce the accuracy of Spanish arquebusiers.
Like I said, simple changes, and all we need is the opportunity to try it again. Would like to give the game a whirl on a larger table so we can cram all the Aztecs into the game. Can’t wait to give it a try.
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Sounds like a lot of fun, even though the natives foundered. And Meeples is a great store!
One note that you might try – the Mexica were found of the atlatl, even the military orders and priests used them. If it is not difficult, giving most Mexica units a missile capacity could change things up a bit.