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Hannibal: DaveB - Jeff Game Mar 2020 Journal

Entry # Time Turn Player Title Entry

37 4/1/2020 9:07:00 PM 217 BC Rome Message Fabius and Varro are new consuls.
Fabius goes to Mutina with the 12 CUs
Varro goes to Rome with the 6CUs
Rome will decline to play a Campaign card.

36 4/1/2020 9:06:00 PM 217 BC Rome Die roll request Request: 8-sided die x 10

5
4
4
5
3
7
8
4
8
1

Message from Rome:
Message from Rome:
Rolling for the 2 new consuls. First 2 valid dice.
Consul order is:
1 – P Scipio
2 – Nero
3 – Longus
4 – Varro
5 – Fabius
6 – Marcellus
7 – Paulus
8 - Flaminus

35 4/1/2020 1:58:00 PM 217 BC Carthage Message I'll place my reinforcements as follows:

1 CU - Hannibal (Taurini) - now 7 CUs, 1 CU-E
2 CU's - Hasdrubal (New Carthage) - now 4 CUs
1 CU - Hanno (Carthage) - now 5 CUs

And now for the Roman consular election.

34 4/1/2020 1:29:00 PM 217 BC Carthage Draw Strategy cards 7 cards drawn.

33 4/1/2020 1:29:00 PM 217 BC Carthage Message Well, card-stealing cards are not unknown in other CDGs, although in "Wilderness War," for example, they require a die roll with only a 2/3 chance of success.

What is impressive here, though, is that it appears you must have been proceeding on an expectation that I had the Reinforcements card in my hand. Otherwise, in my experience, at least, those cards get played early on before the other player can lay out his best cards. That made your play of this card a particularly nasty surprise.

32 4/1/2020 1:44:00 AM 217 BC Rome Message Turn 2:
Rome will decline to play a Campaign card to start.
Hey Jeff, I was lucky to get the messenger card. We actually think it's overpowered so often house rule it to be less powerful.

31 4/1/2020 1:43:00 AM 217 BC Rome Draw Strategy cards 7 cards drawn.

30 4/1/2020 1:42:00 AM 218 BC Rome End Turn

29 4/1/2020 1:37:00 AM 218 BC Rome Message P. Scipio at Mutina with 7CUs is asked to be Proconsul.
Add 5CUs with P. Scipio giving 12CUs.

28 4/1/2020 1:35:00 AM 218 BC Rome Message End of turn 1
No isolation, no winter attrition
Province count is 9 - 9

27 4/1/2020 1:31:00 AM 218 BC Rome Play Strategy card as Operations #59: 1 / Ally Deserts
(Both) Draw one BC from your opponent's hand and add it to your own.

Message from Rome:
Rome Action 8
Add PC at Rhone

26 4/1/2020 1:31:00 AM 218 BC Rome Play Strategy card as Operations #14: 2 / Ligurian Recruits
(Carthage) Place two Carthaginian CU's with any General located in Liguria, Cisalpinia or Etruria.

Message from Rome:
Rome action 7
Add PCs at Nice and Narbo

25 3/31/2020 11:22:00 AM 218 BC Carthage Give random Strategy card to Rome Message from Carthage:
I'm beginning to conclude there's just no point in my playing you.

24 3/31/2020 1:49:00 AM 218 BC Rome Play Strategy card as Event #55: 3 / Messenger Intercepted
(Both) Draw one Strategy Card from your opponent's hand and add it to your own.

Message from Rome:
While Hannibal was crossing the Alps, I nabbed a messenger.

23 3/31/2020 1:48:00 AM 218 BC Rome Message Oh, a nasty crossing of the Alps.

22 3/30/2020 11:39:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Message Why couldn't I have gotten that on my last die roll?

Hannibal loses 2 CUs and 1 CU-E.

And after what has plainly been a serious ordeal since leaving the Rhone (much like that faced by his historical counterpart), Hannibal and his army will halt in Taurini to recuperate.

21 3/30/2020 11:33:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Die roll request Request: 6-sided die x 1

6

Message from Carthage:
Attrition roll for crossing the Alps.

20 3/30/2020 11:32:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Play Strategy card as Operations #11: 1 / Balearic Slingers
(Both) If you control the Balearic Islands, place one CU in any Port containing a friendly PC and no enemy CUs.

Message from Carthage:
Hannibal will cross the Alps with his entire force -- initially to Taurini.

19 3/30/2020 2:09:00 AM 218 BC Rome Play Strategy card as Operations #40: 3 / Minor Campaign
(Both) MOVE ANY TWO GENERALS. Each General can move up to four spaces with 10 combat units.

Message from Rome:
Rome Action 5:
Part 1:
P. Scipio and 7CUs leave Rome and head to Mutina.
Part 2:
Longus drops 1CU at Agrig, goes to Lily with 7CUs, drops a CU there, then sails to Rome with 6CUs.

18 3/30/2020 2:02:00 AM 218 BC Rome Message Paulus isn't around, I assume you mean P. Scipio in Rome. He had 8CUs so he now has 7CUs.
Is this correct?

17 3/29/2020 3:05:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Message But not much illness. One CU lost.

16 3/29/2020 3:04:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Die roll request Request: 6-sided die x 1

2

Message from Carthage:

15 3/29/2020 3:04:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Play Strategy card as Event #51: 2 / Epidemic
(Both) One opposing Army must roll on the Attrition Table.

Message from Carthage:
Illness strikes the camp of Paulus's army.

14 3/29/2020 2:20:00 AM 218 BC Rome Die roll request Request: 6-sided die x 1

2

Message from Rome:
Hannibal only loses 1CU so he now has 7e2.

13 3/29/2020 2:19:00 AM 218 BC Rome Die roll request Request: 6-sided die x 1

2

Message from Rome:
Rome Action 4.
Hannibal encounters Hostile Tribes.
I'll roll for attrition.

12 3/29/2020 2:19:00 AM 218 BC Rome Play Strategy card as Event #8: 1 / Hostile Tribes
(Both) Play whenever an opposing army occupies (or enters) space in Gallia Transalpinia or Liguria. The Army immediately undergoes Attrition on the 5-6 column.

Message from Rome:
Rome Action 4.
Hannibal encounters Hostile Tribes.
I'll roll for attrition.

11 3/28/2020 3:12:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Play Strategy card as Operations #13: 2 / Bruttium Recruits
(Carthage) Place two Carthaginian CU's with any General located in Lucania

Message from Carthage:
Carthaginian Impulse 4:

I'll use this to activate Hannibal, who will move with H. Gisgo and his entire force (8 CU, 2 CU-e) as follows:

Narbo-Nemausus-Rhone-Allobroges.

10 3/28/2020 3:13:00 AM 218 BC Rome Play Strategy card as Operations #57: 1 / Hanno Counsels Carthage
(Rome) Carthaginian CUs are prohibited from leaving Africa until the Strategy Deck is reshuffled.

Message from Rome:
Rome action 3
Add PC at Druentia

9 3/27/2020 12:24:00 AM 218 BC Carthage Play Strategy card as Operations #22: 1 / Mutin's Numidians
(Carthage) Place one Carthaginian CU and a PC in any non-walled city space in Sicilia that contains no Roman CUs. If the space contains a Roman PC the PC is simply flipped.

Message from Carthage:
Carthaginian Impulse 3.

Hannibal with move with H. Gisgo, 8 CUs, and 2 CU-Es Dertosa-Tarraco-Emporiae. Mago will remain behind in Saguntum.

8 3/26/2020 2:49:00 AM 218 BC Rome Play Strategy card as Operations #58: 1 / Cato Counsels Rome
(Carthage) Roman CUs are prohibited from moving to Africa until the Strategy Deck is reshuffled. This does not affect Roman CUs already there.

Message from Rome:
Rome Action 2
Add PC at Emporiae.

7 3/26/2020 12:39:00 AM 218 BC Carthage Play Strategy card as Operations #25: 2 / Capua Sides with Carthage
(Carthage) If the Carthage controls 3 or more Italian provinces Capua is converted to Carthaginian control and all Roman CUs inside are eliminated.

Message from Carthage:
Good luck to you, too!

Place PCs at:

Iberus
Taurini

6 3/24/2020 12:46:00 AM 218 BC Rome Play Strategy card as Operations #10: 2 / Macedonian Reinforcements
(Carthage) Place two Carthaginian CU's in any friendly controlled port in Africa or Italy. May only be played while Philip V of Macedonia is allied with Carthage.

Message from Rome:
Rome Action 1
Add PCs at Mutina and Verona
Good luck in this game.

5 3/23/2020 11:32:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Play Strategy card as Operations #33: 3 / Major Campaign
(Both) MOVE ANY THREE GENERALS. Each General can move up to four spaces with 10 combat units.

Message from Carthage:
I'll play this for the Ops, and place PCs as follows:

Tarraco
Dertosa
Ilerda

4 3/23/2020 2:23:00 AM 218 BC Rome Message Rome will decline to play a Campaign card to start.

3 3/23/2020 2:22:00 AM 218 BC Rome Draw Strategy cards 7 cards drawn.

2 3/22/2020 2:59:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Message Do you have a Campaign card you wish to play first?

1 3/22/2020 12:00:00 PM 218 BC Carthage Draw Strategy cards 7 cards drawn.

Next 100 entries

Entry #	Time	Turn	Player	Title	Entry
37	4/1/2020 9:07:00 PM	217 BC	Rome	Message	Fabius and Varro are new consuls. Fabius goes to Mutina with the 12 CUs Varro goes to Rome with the 6CUs Rome will decline to play a Campaign card.
36	4/1/2020 9:06:00 PM	217 BC	Rome	Die roll request	Request: 8-sided die x 10 5 4 4 5 3 7 8 4 8 1 Message from Rome: Message from Rome: Rolling for the 2 new consuls. First 2 valid dice. Consul order is: 1 – P Scipio 2 – Nero 3 – Longus 4 – Varro 5 – Fabius 6 – Marcellus 7 – Paulus 8 - Flaminus
35	4/1/2020 1:58:00 PM	217 BC	Carthage	Message	I'll place my reinforcements as follows: 1 CU - Hannibal (Taurini) - now 7 CUs, 1 CU-E 2 CU's - Hasdrubal (New Carthage) - now 4 CUs 1 CU - Hanno (Carthage) - now 5 CUs And now for the Roman consular election.
34	4/1/2020 1:29:00 PM	217 BC	Carthage	Draw Strategy cards	7 cards drawn.
33	4/1/2020 1:29:00 PM	217 BC	Carthage	Message	Well, card-stealing cards are not unknown in other CDGs, although in "Wilderness War," for example, they require a die roll with only a 2/3 chance of success. What is impressive here, though, is that it appears you must have been proceeding on an expectation that I had the Reinforcements card in my hand. Otherwise, in my experience, at least, those cards get played early on before the other player can lay out his best cards. That made your play of this card a particularly nasty surprise.
32	4/1/2020 1:44:00 AM	217 BC	Rome	Message	Turn 2: Rome will decline to play a Campaign card to start. Hey Jeff, I was lucky to get the messenger card. We actually think it's overpowered so often house rule it to be less powerful.
31	4/1/2020 1:43:00 AM	217 BC	Rome	Draw Strategy cards	7 cards drawn.
30	4/1/2020 1:42:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	End Turn
29	4/1/2020 1:37:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Message	P. Scipio at Mutina with 7CUs is asked to be Proconsul. Add 5CUs with P. Scipio giving 12CUs.
28	4/1/2020 1:35:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Message	End of turn 1 No isolation, no winter attrition Province count is 9 - 9
27	4/1/2020 1:31:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Play Strategy card as Operations	#59: 1 / Ally Deserts (Both) Draw one BC from your opponent's hand and add it to your own. Message from Rome: Rome Action 8 Add PC at Rhone
26	4/1/2020 1:31:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Play Strategy card as Operations	#14: 2 / Ligurian Recruits (Carthage) Place two Carthaginian CU's with any General located in Liguria, Cisalpinia or Etruria. Message from Rome: Rome action 7 Add PCs at Nice and Narbo
25	3/31/2020 11:22:00 AM	218 BC	Carthage	Give random Strategy card to Rome	Message from Carthage: I'm beginning to conclude there's just no point in my playing you.
24	3/31/2020 1:49:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Play Strategy card as Event	#55: 3 / Messenger Intercepted (Both) Draw one Strategy Card from your opponent's hand and add it to your own. Message from Rome: While Hannibal was crossing the Alps, I nabbed a messenger.
23	3/31/2020 1:48:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Message	Oh, a nasty crossing of the Alps.
22	3/30/2020 11:39:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Message	Why couldn't I have gotten that on my last die roll? Hannibal loses 2 CUs and 1 CU-E. And after what has plainly been a serious ordeal since leaving the Rhone (much like that faced by his historical counterpart), Hannibal and his army will halt in Taurini to recuperate.
21	3/30/2020 11:33:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Die roll request	Request: 6-sided die x 1 6 Message from Carthage: Attrition roll for crossing the Alps.
20	3/30/2020 11:32:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Play Strategy card as Operations	#11: 1 / Balearic Slingers (Both) If you control the Balearic Islands, place one CU in any Port containing a friendly PC and no enemy CUs. Message from Carthage: Hannibal will cross the Alps with his entire force -- initially to Taurini.
19	3/30/2020 2:09:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Play Strategy card as Operations	#40: 3 / Minor Campaign (Both) MOVE ANY TWO GENERALS. Each General can move up to four spaces with 10 combat units. Message from Rome: Rome Action 5: Part 1: P. Scipio and 7CUs leave Rome and head to Mutina. Part 2: Longus drops 1CU at Agrig, goes to Lily with 7CUs, drops a CU there, then sails to Rome with 6CUs.
18	3/30/2020 2:02:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Message	Paulus isn't around, I assume you mean P. Scipio in Rome. He had 8CUs so he now has 7CUs. Is this correct?
17	3/29/2020 3:05:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Message	But not much illness. One CU lost.
16	3/29/2020 3:04:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Die roll request	Request: 6-sided die x 1 2 Message from Carthage:
15	3/29/2020 3:04:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Play Strategy card as Event	#51: 2 / Epidemic (Both) One opposing Army must roll on the Attrition Table. Message from Carthage: Illness strikes the camp of Paulus's army.
14	3/29/2020 2:20:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Die roll request	Request: 6-sided die x 1 2 Message from Rome: Hannibal only loses 1CU so he now has 7e2.
13	3/29/2020 2:19:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Die roll request	Request: 6-sided die x 1 2 Message from Rome: Rome Action 4. Hannibal encounters Hostile Tribes. I'll roll for attrition.
12	3/29/2020 2:19:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Play Strategy card as Event	#8: 1 / Hostile Tribes (Both) Play whenever an opposing army occupies (or enters) space in Gallia Transalpinia or Liguria. The Army immediately undergoes Attrition on the 5-6 column. Message from Rome: Rome Action 4. Hannibal encounters Hostile Tribes. I'll roll for attrition.
11	3/28/2020 3:12:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Play Strategy card as Operations	#13: 2 / Bruttium Recruits (Carthage) Place two Carthaginian CU's with any General located in Lucania Message from Carthage: Carthaginian Impulse 4: I'll use this to activate Hannibal, who will move with H. Gisgo and his entire force (8 CU, 2 CU-e) as follows: Narbo-Nemausus-Rhone-Allobroges.
10	3/28/2020 3:13:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Play Strategy card as Operations	#57: 1 / Hanno Counsels Carthage (Rome) Carthaginian CUs are prohibited from leaving Africa until the Strategy Deck is reshuffled. Message from Rome: Rome action 3 Add PC at Druentia
9	3/27/2020 12:24:00 AM	218 BC	Carthage	Play Strategy card as Operations	#22: 1 / Mutin's Numidians (Carthage) Place one Carthaginian CU and a PC in any non-walled city space in Sicilia that contains no Roman CUs. If the space contains a Roman PC the PC is simply flipped. Message from Carthage: Carthaginian Impulse 3. Hannibal with move with H. Gisgo, 8 CUs, and 2 CU-Es Dertosa-Tarraco-Emporiae. Mago will remain behind in Saguntum.
8	3/26/2020 2:49:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Play Strategy card as Operations	#58: 1 / Cato Counsels Rome (Carthage) Roman CUs are prohibited from moving to Africa until the Strategy Deck is reshuffled. This does not affect Roman CUs already there. Message from Rome: Rome Action 2 Add PC at Emporiae.
7	3/26/2020 12:39:00 AM	218 BC	Carthage	Play Strategy card as Operations	#25: 2 / Capua Sides with Carthage (Carthage) If the Carthage controls 3 or more Italian provinces Capua is converted to Carthaginian control and all Roman CUs inside are eliminated. Message from Carthage: Good luck to you, too! Place PCs at: Iberus Taurini
6	3/24/2020 12:46:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Play Strategy card as Operations	#10: 2 / Macedonian Reinforcements (Carthage) Place two Carthaginian CU's in any friendly controlled port in Africa or Italy. May only be played while Philip V of Macedonia is allied with Carthage. Message from Rome: Rome Action 1 Add PCs at Mutina and Verona Good luck in this game.
5	3/23/2020 11:32:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Play Strategy card as Operations	#33: 3 / Major Campaign (Both) MOVE ANY THREE GENERALS. Each General can move up to four spaces with 10 combat units. Message from Carthage: I'll play this for the Ops, and place PCs as follows: Tarraco Dertosa Ilerda
4	3/23/2020 2:23:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Message	Rome will decline to play a Campaign card to start.
3	3/23/2020 2:22:00 AM	218 BC	Rome	Draw Strategy cards	7 cards drawn.
2	3/22/2020 2:59:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Message	Do you have a Campaign card you wish to play first?
1	3/22/2020 12:00:00 PM	218 BC	Carthage	Draw Strategy cards	7 cards drawn.