Last Updated
Mon Nov 15 19:47:40 PST 1999
Voters = 6

ANCIENTS VOTING RESULTS:
Favorite Rules - De Bellis Antiquitatis

Rules Regularly Played
rules played regularlypercentage
De Bellis Antiquitatis83%
De Bellis Multitudinis17%
Phalanx & Legion17%
Tactica17%

Number of Rules Regularly Played
number of rules played regularlypercentage
1 rules played67%
2 rules played33%

Rules Tried
rules played at least oncepercentage
De Bellis Antiquitatis100%
De Bellis Multitudinis67%
Fast Play Rules For Ancient Warfare50%
WRG Ancients50%
Glutter of Ravens33%
Legion33%
Tactica33%
Ancient Warfare17%
Armati17%
Charles Grant's Ancients17%
Might of Arms17%

Number of Rules Tried
number of rules playedpercentage
2 rules played50%
5 rules played17%
6 rules played17%
9 rules played17%

Voters, By Experience
level of experiencepercentage
Twenty Years or More40%
Novice20%
Two to Three Years20%
Up To Ten Years20%

Voters, By Region
regionpercentage
North America80%
Western Pacific20%

Voters, By Setting
usual game settingpercentage
At the local club50%
With a friend or two33%
At the local game store17%

Number of Armies
number of armies owned or usedpercentage
2 army/armies20%
27 army/armies20%
3 army/armies20%
7 army/armies20%
9 army/armies20%

Armies Owned/Used
armies owned or usedpercentage
Alexandrian Macedonian40%
Early Byzantine40%
Early Imperial Roman40%
Gallic40%
Later Seleucid40%
Middle Anglo-Saxon40%
Polybian Roman40%
Sub-Roman British40%
African Vandal20%
Alan20%
Alexandrian Imperial20%
Antigonid20%
Bactrian and Indo-Greek20%
Bosphoran20%
Caledonian/Pictish20%
Camillan Roman20%
Early Ptolemaic20%
Early Rhoxolani Sarmatian20%
Early Sassanid20%
Early Saxon20%
Early Seleucid20%
Eumenid20%
Gepid/Lombard20%
Hittite20%
Hunnic20%
Italian Ostrogothic20%
Late-Roman East20%
Late-Roman West20%
Later Carthaginian20%
Later Ptolemaic20%
Later Rhoxolani Sarmatian20%
Later Sassanid20%
Later Visigothic20%
Lysamachid20%
Macedonian Early Successor20%
Marian Roman20%
New Kingdom Egyptian20%
Patrician Roman20%
Pyrrhic20%
Slav20%

Periods Played
periodpercentage
Rome83%
Decline of Rome50%
Egypt33%
Assyria17%
Competitive/Tournament17%
Greece17%
Hittite17%
Persia17%
What-If17%

Number of Periods Played
number of genres/periods playedpercentage
1 periods33%
2 periods17%
3 periods17%
4 periods17%
5 periods17%

Scales Used
figure scalepercentage
15mm83%
25mm33%

Number of Scales
number of figure scale(s) used
(per person)		percentage
1 figure scale(s) used83%
2 figure scale(s) used17%

RECENT BATTLE REPORTS
Britt Holtsclaw

Phalanx & Legion. Club rules of the Bundaberg Wargames Society. Byzantines vs Arab Conquest. 15mm. Played on a 5' x 9' table. No terrain in the centre, but hills and some woods on both flanks. The armies are divided into 4 wings each, each moving when its card is pulled (like OTR). The terrain helped the Byzantines, since they had fewer, if heavier, units initially. By mid game, the Arabs had worked themselves around the Byz. left, allowing them to get behind that flank, which quickly collapsed. The Byzantine centre was unable to crush the arab centre before it also was engulfed, and the battle over. [15 Sep 1999]

Jay Taylor

Our side had two Roman Armies against two Briton Armies. We did a frontal assault with our cavalry placed in the center. When my ally rolled low for pips at the beginning of the turn. I was left alone and and was overwelmed by the Briton warbands. Oh well. [31 Jul 1999]

Jeff Bolton

DBM - 400AP - My Patrician Romans versus Tang Chinese. I over-committed my Fast Knights, trapping my Hunnic allies and messing up my own command and control. This lead to a disappointing 10-0 loss. My PRs are now hold a 1-1 record in this incarnation.

I am familiar with a number of rules sets - and am not particularly fond of any. The best - with reservations - is DBA. The worst are Tactica and the pre-DBA WRG offerings. Right now, I am in the process of analyzing GLUTTER OF RAVENS and MIGHT OF ARMS. [31 Mar 99]

Chris Brantley

My last ancients game was Early Imperial Romans vs. Early Imperial Romans in a civil war scenario using DBA. Both armies were evenly matched, but a bad deployment and bad tactics of dividing his army (caused in part by the terrain) allowed me to defeat my opponent piecemeal. [31 Mar 99]

S. Johnson

We use set-up points and not historical armies, usually. 80 set-up points this time. It's larger than the 12-stand DBA variant but just about as quick. Terrain played a factor since a river of unknowable depth passed through three quadrants. Using an 8-sided die to see how many units could move/turn was appropriate for 80 set-up points, but don't think that it necessarily allows anything like an Ancients "blitzkrieg." In fact, the side that lost had difficulty in the mid-game moving more than two of his five units in any given turn. The "good guys" (i.e. me) won, killing off some heavy chariots (classified as knights) and taking the camp. Light horse on both sides did an impressive job. [31 Mar 99]

Steven Goode

Not terribly interesting to recount, since both I and my opponent made a number of mistakes when it came to applying the rules correctly.

I was using Polybian Romans against Gauls. The battlefield was mostly clear, with a gentle hill in the center. My goal was to advance in a "box" formation, with one edged anchored against the board edge and my other flank guarded by cavalry. I wanted to get on top of the hill for a height advantage, but as it turned out, the Gauls got there at the same time so neither of us had a height advantage. I tried to send my skirmishers ahead of my legionaries to disrupt the Gallic advance, but that didn't work too well. It slowed them down, but they still managed to break through my line. I wheeled more legionaries to outflank the Gallic wargband, but they couldn't quite catch the Gauls. This game would have been a disaster for the Romans, but the Gallic cavalry suffered an ingnominious (sp) defeat at the hands of my Triarii (spearmen) on the flank. I really like DBA's handling of the legion-warband interaction. It's very suspenseful and dramatic. [30 Mar 99]