"The Three Battles of Mons Graupius..." Topic

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14 Apr 2016 4:29 a.m. PST
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Whirlwind	14 Apr 2016 4:07 a.m. PST
Or at least, the battle of Mons Graupius refought three times with three different rulesets: Polemos SPQR: link Neil Thomas' Ancient & Medieval Wargaming: link DBA v3.0: link and some thoughts on the comparison between them: link
normsmith	14 Apr 2016 6:43 a.m. PST
Very interesting post, thanks for making all of that available
Yellow Admiral	14 Apr 2016 8:38 a.m. PST
Nice write up. Thanks for doing that. - Ix
gaiusrabirius	14 Apr 2016 7:56 p.m. PST
Good work!
Whirlwind	14 Apr 2016 11:10 p.m. PST
Thanks for the encouragement, I'm glad to have been able to help
normsmith	15 Apr 2016 1:48 a.m. PST
I have gone in and read all of that 3 times now. I love these sort of posts. I laughed on reading your comments page at the gent giving you some more work to do. All good stuff.
Yesthatphil	15 Apr 2016 1:56 a.m. PST
Good stuff ! Thanks for posting the links. Phil Ancients on the Move
sumerandakkad	16 Apr 2016 2:38 p.m. PST
Interesting blog. Well into 6mm gaming and often wondered about Polemos rules. Now I know a little more.

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