Ian Bowes and I are playing out the Battle of Cynoscephalae in Field of Glory. He’s still learning the system, but he wanted to play another MP game and kindly asked that I join him. I gave him the Romans and took the Macedonians for myself.
He is blogging the game over at his blog.
Entries Tagged as 'Ancients'
Field of Glory AAR
January 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments · AAR, Ancients, Slitherine, Wargames
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Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War
January 13th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Ancients, Indie Games
My friend Kevin pointed me to this a couple of days ago and only now have I gotten to spend some time with the beta demo.
The first thing that strikes you about Hannibal is the art. It’s sort of a Bayeux Tapestry thing, I guess. Very stylized and not entirely clear all the time. But [...]
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Field of Glory: I’d Like Some More Please
November 23rd, 2009 · 10 Comments · Ancients, Slitherine, Wargames
The computer version of Field of Glory satisfies two itches at once. First, it is a very simple and very fast playing wargame, well adapted from what is, by all accounts, a very good miniature rule set. Second, it is an ancients game, and we all know that I can go on forever about that [...]
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Field of Glory now available
November 18th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Ancients, Wargames
The PC adaptation of the Field of Glory miniature rule set is now available from Slitherine.
. Game play that allows key decisions to decide the results of historical battles.
· Detailed and accurate depiction of ancient warfare (combat mechanics, leaders, [...]
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Egypt: Engineering an Empire
November 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Ancients, Slitherine
I just finished teaching about this stuff.
Egypt is the first in a series a turn based grand strategy games with important economic and military aspects linked to the History TV channel series Engineering an Empire. You must engineer an empire from its roots to the height of its power. You take the role of ruler [...]
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Alexandrian Wars
August 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Ancients, HPS, Wargames
I hate letting an ancient themed wargame slip by unnoticed.
HPS Simulations has just released Alexandrian Wars, the third game in their Ancient Warfare series. It’s a good series in general because it’s at the scale where the HPS engine doesn’t fall apart, though the UI is still twenty years behind the times.
There’s a campaign this [...]
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