Dice or No Dice

  Friday 4th April was the Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong - one of the two grave sweeping holidays in the Chinese calendar - and having no obligations Andrew and I were able to meet up in my 'office' for a couple of games of Alala! interspersed by a curry in a nearby restaurant. The first game was a simple learning by playing set up to introduce Andrew to the rules.  I didn't take any pictures of this as Andrew had set up his camera to record the game.  He has now posted a video on his 'On the Gaming Table' channel, which you can find here -  For the second game we added extra units and increased the width of the table from 6' to 7' to allow a bit more room for manoeuvre.  The additions were not directly equal.  One side would get 2 Spartan hoplite units, a unit of hamippoi and a unit of peltasts, the other would get a double depth Theban unit, horse archers and both a peltast and a javelin unit. Both would get an extra general to add to the two per side ...