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Designed By	William L. Banks
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Published By	3W (World Wide Wargames) Good Industries
Year Published	1990
# of Players:	2 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) [poll]
Language Dependence	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Category	Ancient Print & Play Wargame
Mechanic	Hex-and-Counter
Primary Name	Ancients
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Rules and scenarios for Ancients battles. A companion game to King of Kings (itself later republished by 3W as Imperator).

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1	Sessions Marathon, 490 BC, solo replay - the other setup!	2009-07-21	dmcke013	0
5	Sessions Marathon, 490 BC solo replay	2009-07-17	dmcke013	3
5	Sessions Heraclea, 280 BC: another Pyrrhic victory?	2009-06-28	dmcke013	5
7	News New Counters, Maps and Scenarios for Original Ancients	2008-08-15	Dietrich2	1
1	News Original Ancients site back up!	2008-08-05	Eaglriter	1
1	General No longer free?	2008-06-04	m0rtaar	3
2	General New version on the horizon!	2008-05-05	Ichirou	0
1	General Scenarios	2008-04-07	nwhyman	1
4	General A good, minimalist design	2008-03-28	wargamer55	1
0	Rules Questions about camps.	2008-03-16	flying_neko	2

	Recommendations

Standard Recommendations
Napoleon at Waterloo

Weak Recommendations
Alexander the Great	Afrika Korps	Frederick the Great	The Fall of Rome
The Punic Wars	Battle for Germany	Midway	Napoleon's Last Battles
Napoleon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815	Arcola: The Battle for Italy, 1796	The Siege of Constantinople	1776
Caesar at Alesia	Soldier King	Warp War	October War
Fire When Ready	War At Sea	War of the Ring	Kadesh: Mobile Warfare in the Ancient Middle East
Mason-Dixon: The Second American Civil War	Ancients I	Austro-Prussian War	Bloody Buna
Victory in the Pacific	A House Divided	Tahiti: Clan Warfare, Polynesia 750 AD	Ogre
B-17: Queen of the Skies

Very Weak Recommendations
Across 5 Aprils	The Siege of Jerusalem

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New counter set

New design counter set for the game in three colours - blue, red & green.

Mekon

2009-04-06

New Liegnitz

New counters and set up for battle of Liegnitz

Arnie

2009-03-13

New Plataea Set up Map and Counters

Variant Plataea set up and counters

Arnie

2009-02-22

Ancients rules

ruleset for the Ancients game in pdf format.

m0rtaar

2008-08-12

one page ancient playaid

This is a one page cheat sheet for the Ancients game.

clonea

2008-02-27

Ancients Land Play Summary 1.0.pdf

Ancients play summary (land combat version).

kentreuber

2007-09-12

New CRT for Ancients.doc

Non-official new CRT for Ancients

xavilongo

2006-12-27

AncientsPlusImages.zip

Enlarged maps and record sheet for Ancients Plus. (See article for details.)

Kingdaddy

2005-07-12

Countersheets.doc

Enlarged counters for "Ancients Plus." (See my article here in the Ancients page of BGG for details.)

Kingdaddy

2005-07-12

Scenario cards.doc

Custom scenario cards for several medieval scenarios (Word format).

Kingdaddy

2005-07-12

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New link to download the original rules (Ancients Classic). Look to bottom right corner for link.

http://www.relativerange.com/Relative_Range/Ancien...

2008-12-07

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