"Tell me about Strength & Honour" Topic

Purchased it when it first came out and made up a couple of armies (Romans and Barbarians) using the downloadable pictures, then went off the idea.

For one thing I didn't have a gridded cloth and really didn't want to buy/make one. Although not being entirely stupid, I was aware the rules were written with those in mind. I intended to just use standardised measuring sticks but never got round to trying it out, or the game for that matter!

So how does it play? Could you use the rules solo for example? Also what's the replay value given the format, period and tactics? Do you end up playing the same game (Depending which side you take) pretty much every time?

Comments would be appreciated.

Do a search on Youtube. There are a few reviews and demonstration games.

Here's some reviews:
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I've played I several times. It is a good fun game but I'm not sure it ears much relation to Ancient warfare. Given the amount of card drawing, it works well as a solo game as the cards help keep track of what each unit has done.

The grid is pretty fundamental. Just mark the corners with scatter terrain.

Thanks, all. I have checked out YouTube now as well, fair amount of stuff on it.

I'll see what happens about the grid when I have rediscovered the relevance of the recommended sizes to game play. I'll be down the small end of things. All the units are on 120mm frontage which as I understand it works around a 75mm grid.

I do recall wondering why there wasn't a more immediate relationship between frontage and grid size before. Anyway if I can make things work in multiples of 75mm I may make up a scale ruler and see if that works. Particularly if I'm playing solo, no one else to puzzle by it!

@Trajanus

"I do recall wondering why there wasn't a more immediate relationship between frontage and grid size before."

It's quite simple.

The basic tactical unit in S&H is the Legion/Tribe/Phalanx, between 3000 and 5000 soldiers. Bases have a 120mm width and occupy 2 grids of 75mm x 75mm, that gives you a sense of scale and the 'free space' within those 2 grids gives you a handy visual aid to tell Legion/Warband A from Legion/Warband B etc.

Impassable, rough terrain and woods can occupy as little as one 75mm x 75mm grid square. This forces you to decide if you try the difficult task of moving your 3-5000 man 2 grid square wide unit to avoid it or plough on through and risk failing the manoeuvre test.

Ah! Thanks, the idea of a wood or something occupying one of the two squares to the front of a unit makes sense, in terms of the numbers involved. I had understood the size of the units in manpower terms but hadn't thought of it in terms of potential obstacles.

Not many rules use a scale that allows for the movement of a Division equivalent in one turn.