| cabin4clw | 02 Nov 2018 6:58 p.m. PST |
I am going to be starting a Roman and Carthginians armies with Old Glory 15mm figures, soon. I have a 3.5' x 3.5' table, actually our dining room, so I wonder if there is a set of rules that you could recommend that I could use on my table?
Joe |
| jhancock | 02 Nov 2018 7:04 p.m. PST |
De Bellis Antiquitatis or DBA Basic Impetus Portable Wargame Ancients One Hour Wargames by Neil Thomas |
| Henry Martini | 02 Nov 2018 7:05 p.m. PST |
I suggest Big Battle DBA; your table is of more than adequate size, and you'll actually be able to make use of the large numbers of figures supplied in those OG packs. |
| Twilight Samurai | 02 Nov 2018 8:19 p.m. PST |
Not already mentioned: Triumph!
wgcwar.com/triumph.html
Click on banner at the top of page to get to army lists and forum link.
Similar figure count ( for those armies ) and board size to DBA. Mighty Armies: Ancients.
link Although I've not played these, more interested in the fantasy version. |
Dervel  | 02 Nov 2018 9:22 p.m. PST |
I would second Triumph! I have been playing them since the early development, great system for Ancients and Medieval games. The PDF version is only $15. USD Very straight forward rules currently 658 historical armies on the online data base: meshwesh.wgcwar.com/home#%2Fhome The base game with 48 point armies fits on roughly a 2'X3' (640mmX960mm) battlefield in 15mm. |
| Logain | 02 Nov 2018 10:51 p.m. PST |
Mighty Armies Ancients is pretty good, it's a simple and flexible rule set. Games take between 30-60 mins. Table size is 36x24.
One hour wargames is a good source for a bunch of scenarios, and has semi-random force generation which I really like. We use the scenarios and modified force tables to set up our mighty army games. |
| Martin Rapier | 03 Nov 2018 2:59 a.m. PST |
To add to the above, Lost Battles and also Neil Thomas's Ancients rules from his Introduction to Wargaming. We play lots of command and Colours games using figures too. A setup in Hexon is only about 3 feet across, or you could just draw some hexes out. |
| Munster | 03 Nov 2018 5:02 p.m. PST |
Also Mortem et Glorium can play at two scales On the positive side the bases for most of the rules is consistent. I tend to be driven by what the others locally use for rules (oh and there is a 15mm plastic roman kickstarter due, I think this month) |
| Steamingdave2 | 04 Nov 2018 2:39 a.m. PST |
I have played Sword and Spear on small. tables. The rules use "Base Widths" as unit of measurement, this being half a units frontage. For my "normal" games on a 6x 4 or larger table I use 4 standard DBA bases (set up 2x2) for a unit, but for small tables I simply use a single base, giving a BW of 2cm. |
| arsbelli | 23 Dec 2018 1:33 p.m. PST |
To the Strongest is an excellent ancients rule set, played on tables as small as 60cm x 40cm (2' x 1.3'). link |
| Asteroid X | 14 Apr 2019 10:34 a.m. PST |
Even though this is an older thread, it would be interesting to hear which rules you tried and how you liked them! |
Tango01  | 17 May 2021 4:15 p.m. PST |
Painting 15mm Imperial Romans step by step
link
Armand |
| Erzherzog Johann | 17 May 2021 10:38 p.m. PST |
DBMM 100 or 200 (up to about 240AP) would work well on a table that size too. The ancient ranges are all now down to a more manageable size of about 24 foot or 9 mounted, which is generally more convenient. Cheers,
John |
| Tango01 | 19 May 2021 4:07 p.m. PST |
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