Guten Abend,
Today we fought a terrible battle, and much fun was had by all.
Playing off last week whereupon we built Legionnaires, this week we made our own Teutonic warriors and made both of the above groups engage in combat.
We reviewed and added onto our vocabulary regarding parts of the body, and armor, weaponry and clothing of the 1st century AD in Roman - occupied Germania, as well as martial details, and then divided into two groups: one for Deutscher, one for Römer. Using a point system assigned to different actions, and with "hitpoints" assigned to each warrior or legionnaire that the class had made, based on their equipment and armor, we held battle on the board.
Each team called out an action (which had to be correctly said for it to count--conjugated, arranged, and using the right cases) against certain targets (hence the body part vocabulary last week) and those targets lost hit points accordingly.
The first round, 3 Romans against 6 Germans, the Germans won. Second round, 3 Romans +1 German Auxiliary versus 5 Germans was a wash.
A typical fight looked like this:
Team Rome: "Julius schlägt Sven in das Bein mit dem Schild"
Me: "-3 für Sven. Er hat nur noch 3 HP."
Team Germania: "Sven zerhaut Julius in den Kopf!"
Me: "-4 für Julius. Er hat nur noch 6 HP."
And so on...
It was basically Pokemon with historically-decorated figurines. Since they knew we were going to battle with our figures from the outset, the amount of practicality that went into their design was extraordinary, e.g. "better give him a shield so he gets +1 HP" and so on.
Now that we have had our battle, the classroom walls are adorned with the figures, should you wish to see them. They are quite lovely.
There is no school next week--It's Osterfeier.
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