In Mort Veritas

These are a set of fairly simple and somewhat light-hearted wargame rules for the “Ancient” period, which I am treating as post-Biblical to circa 1000 AD…
– In Mort Veritas introduction

Designer

Martin Clark

Year Published

2001

Status

In Print

Contents

Available online (13-page PDF)

Scale

• Troop scale - 1 figure = 100 men seems to work OK, but it doesn’t really matter as long as both sides are of historical proportions.
• Ground scale - probably about 1 inch = 12.5 yards, but it doesn't really matter.
• Time scale - not applicable.

– In Mort Veritas page 1

Basing

As this is primarily an element based system then ideally all figures should be on stands of a similar size. An element should contain 2, 3 or 4 figures depending on whether it represents troops in open, loose or close order. The maximum size of a single unit is 16 elements, although ad hoc formations brigaded together by a general may be of 25 elements.
– In Mort Veritas page 1

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