New: Ancient Battles (commercial, closed-ended, snail, mixed, historical, wargame)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:13:08 +0000

Name:		Ancient Battles
Costs:		4 GB pounds
Email:		agema zat hotmail.co.uk
Frequency:		one per two weeks
URL:		http://agema.org.uk
Type:		wargame
Last-Update:		2007Nov05
Keywords: commercial, closed-ended, snail, mixed, historical, wargame

Description:

Ancient Battles is based on the successful Napoleonic Battles system, but
heavily tweaked to take into account the differences with regard to
ancient warfare (elephants, chariots and pikemen spring to mind, for
example!). The game is played over full colour card maps, with each battle
lasting between 5 and 15 game turns.

Ancient Battles is quick to play but unless your using skirmishers a
common mistake is not to protect flanks properly, so it makes sense to
spend some time mulling over your options. There is a vast array of
diverse armies you can choose from, and you get to choose their makeup by
choosing the troops you have via a points system and historical lists. For
those of you experienced in such things it's just like choosing a figure
wargames army using WRG army lists, that sort of thing, only you don't
have to paint or buy any figures to try a new army out!!!

The game has had large scale battles fought such as Kadesh, which was a
resounding Hittite win after they outflanked Pharoah, but at the moment
we're concentrating on running head-to-head battles with this game.

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