"When did you play your 1st Ancients game?" Topic

In what year did you play your first Ancients tabletop miniatures game?

Sometime in the 70's.

1975

1978--Milgamex Ancients. Wonder what happened to those rules?

1976. I was 14. "Legion" rules. Played Republican Romans against Carthaginians in a game hosted by the Indiana University wargaming club. It was also the first miniatures wargame of any kind that I played with other gamers. Also played a WWI naval game using "Seapower" rules. Had a great time that day!

1970,wrg 2nd edition,I believe.

1969-1970.

1977, an ancients variant of the Le Kriegspiel rules.

I was 11 yrs old, which would make it 1976.

Dan

1971 WRG 3rd ed

Even the players are Ancient!

1972 using Slims Ancient Rules.

I still use them now and again.

1973 WRG 4th edition

In the 70's.

early 2000s.

Table top?-So bedroom floor doesn't count – proper, first, with actual not made up by me rules and an actual opponent – 1999.(For the other kind 1978- but not really any in between)

Late 1960s, although strictly was played on the floor, with plastic bricks representing soldiers. Thermopylae. :-)

1976 WRG 5th. Never did get around to writing up a set of standing orders . . .

Cheers,
John

Mid to late 70's used a set that covered ancients thru WWII by Lou Zocchi I believe, can't remember the name of the rules.

Yeah…
Standing orders.
I still feel guilty about that.

Around 1978-79 – at a gaming convention in Lockport, NY (outside of Buffalo). Universal Soldier rules.

1990, Tactica. Brought me back to gaming post-college, and converted me from D&D, all in one shot.

1978

WRG 6th. Funny, I remember the rules, but not the year :)

1978, Ancient rules in CS Wesencraft "practical wargaming".

Whenever WRG 3rd came out.

Somewhere about 1965 or 66. Can't remember what the rules were but they club played a lot of the LWS rules at the time.

With Airfix figures in the early '70s. Then again when DBA came out.

1974, WRG.

I have been gaming close to fifty years, and I do not ever recall playing any ancients.
Medievals, yes, but no Ancients. I have bought and read some rules, but have never bought any Ancients figures nor used anyone else's. Looking back, I feel so…. empty

Mike

1978 WRG

Tried a small skirmish with WRG 5th in the mid- 70s as a change from fantasy/ancients using Chainmail man-to-man combat rules but that wasn't very satisfactory. A few years later played a few serious games using Megiddo to Mortgarten rules.

1977 WRG

If we mean 'proper' game (as opposed to made up rules on the bedroom floor) then 1979/80 using WRG 6th edition at Glasgow and District Wargames Society (I lost!)

Fall 1975 with WRG 3rd edition. But the brain seems to remember battles of plastic Airfix Romans vs. Briton barbarians several years ago, on the tabletop, before the formalized WRG 3rd edition play.

Miniatures it would 1986 with WRG 7th. Donnington miniatures republican romans vs Carthaginians.

1989 WRG 7th Edition

Using Miniatures 75-76. Boardgames early 70's. Toy soldiers the late 60's.

1985. WRG 7th. Took me 10 years to try again

1975. WRG 5th I believe. First "official" rule set. Prior to that, 1955. my grandfather had a small corner store. Sold cigs, coffee, and pop. I collected the bottle caps, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Gurds Ginger Ale, etc. I had hundreds of them. Would crash the Coke army into the Pepsi army, and whichever ones flipped over (cork side up) were casualties. I was 5 !

Some time in the late 1970s/ early 80s – "Art of War"

1975 or 1976 at Gencon, recall the figures were Airfix plastics.

FusilierDan: "With Airfix figures in the early '70s"

Wow, I now remember. My first armies were all soft plastic (1/76 Airfix) Ancient Britons and Romans. And all my paints were Testors.

LOL. Talk about a bad material-paint combination, specially for an 11-year old kid just starting out!

Dan

Like not a few others, in the 70's with WRG and Airfix.

I also found it got a bit samey as sooner or later there would be an attritional slog where the close order HI Romans would inevitably chew up the LMI Airfix Britons. I remember all that record keeping of "real" casualties.

Although I expanded the Romans with metal figures, interest dwindled as I wasn't able to move onto other Ancient periods without going all-metal which wasn't an option then.

1986 7th Ed WRG Vikings vs Saxons.
Painted some armies but did't really play lots until I discovered DBM in 1997.

1973, WRG

Hmm.

Started boardgaming ancients with SPI's Armageddon probably in 1976. The miniatures rules of the time were all horridly complex for my tastes. I stuck with SPI PRESTAGS series boardgames up until DBA game out in 1991.

I did a single game of WRG 6th sometime after that came out in the early-mid 80s. One game of that was more than enough for this lifetime! I probably did some Airfix Romans v. Britons games using The Rules According To Ral in the later 80s.

Let's say 1984 for 1st and only WRG 6th game.

1991 for actually jumping into the period with miniatures and DBA.

1977/8 WRG 5th edition, the good olde days

1978/9 WRG

1976, LEGION by Al Margolis.