"SOA article on solo campaigns" Topic

Interesting article on the Society of Ancients web-page, a reprint from Slingshot.

Worth a look : PDF link

Thanks for the link.

Posted before but worth posting again, especially since I had forgotten about it!

BTW, what determines if Rome intervenes or not? It says if Greece, Pergamon or any adjacent territory to Rome is attacked, but apparently there is also a dice roll involved as well. However, I could not determine what the dice roll is. Anyone?

Interesting, thanks for sharing. It already sets my mind to thinking of a medieval variant set in the south of France….

I'm ahead of you there – I did a version called "Angevin Empire", published in Slingshot in 1998. Rather more complex. Also fairly simple ones covering the Mongol conquests ("Solo Campaigning Across the Steppes"), 10th/11th century Europe ("The Millennium Campaign") and 14th/15th century Europe ("The Calamitous Fourteenth Century"). You can get them all by buying the "45 Years of Slingshot" DVD from link

Glad to see that this old article is attracting interest. As it was 1997 when I wrote it I can't remember all the details: but I was giving only an outline of the campaign rules. There were a few die rolls included, such as Rome loses a battle: 1-2 gives up, 3-6 sends a bigger army. Roman intervention was similar, something like 1-3 wait and see, then counter-attack if the attacker wins, 4-6 intervene immediately.

We fought the campaign out with DBM battles, and it went really well.

I remember those articles!

Following this discussion I decided to put the old Slingshot articles into a booklet, with some rewriting, new artwork and pictures of tabletop battles. It's just been published by the Society of Ancients – see soa.org.uk/joomla