David Dockter
United States
Minnesota
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Couldn't find a comprehensive thread, so, thought I would start one...
A few geek lists:
Ancients Wargames: The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome
Free Print & Play Ancients Wargames
Top 10 Grand Strategic Classical (Ancients) Wargames
Top Ancients Wargames as Rated by Active BGG Wargamers - June 2013
Geeklist History #2 - Ancients
Ancients Miniature Games
Top 10 Rome Games
Lesser Known Roman Commanders (Republic edition)
Roman Gladiators
Late Roman Empire wargames
Some threads:
BOOK CLUB: Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins
Wargaming music for ancients games
Ancients wargamers and scholars, lend me your ears! Latin pronunciation in ancient Rome!
Ancient-Era Operational Game?
Pre-Gunpowder Wargamers
Ancient strategic and operational level wargames
NATO style symbols for Ancients
Ancient Gamers
All Hail Pyrrhus of Epirus and the Rise of the Roman Republic
Lost Battles
SLAVERY......in an Ancient Roman game:
Dionysius I of Syracuse: why so little buzz?
Please add to...
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An AAR on Polis: Fight for the Hegemony will post later today.
Finally, the next Guns, Dice, Butter , episode XXV, which will be out soon deals with ancients. We've visited the ancients previously: Episode XI: Jan 8, 2013 involved a conversation with Fred Schachter, designer of The Siege of Jerusalem (Third Edition) and a conversation with Enrico Viglino (game reviewer {video BGG} extraordinaire) regarding wargames covering the ancients period: Rome and Greece.
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Eddy Sterckx
Belgium
Vilvoorde
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You might want to remove the HRE entry because as the saying goes it was neither Holy, Roman nor much of an Empire.
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David Dockter
United States
Minnesota
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Agree! And removed...
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David Dockter
United States
Minnesota
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Guns, Dice, Butter (Episode XXV) returns to the ancient world with a discussion evolving esteemed historian Adrian Goldsworthy and game designer extraordinaire Mark Herman. Hope to publish in the next week or so.
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Nick Wade
Australia
Melbourne
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Excellent combo!
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David Dockter
United States
Minnesota
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Pericles playtest map
Life is good: another Pel Wars game on the horizon - Herman's Pericles.
http://www.insidegmt.com/?p=6467
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Bobby Factor
United States
San Leandro
California
I am Volko Ruhnke's medulla oblongata....
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Herr Dr wrote: Pericles playtest map
Already (absolutely) loving the map. 
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Alexander Meyer
Germany
Hamburg
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Herr Dr wrote:
Recommended. Also to be found on BGG (albeit without footnotes): The Samnite Wars
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David Dockter
United States
Minnesota
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Just finished it: decent read.
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Andy Badger
United Kingdom
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Herr Dr wrote: Just finished it: decent read.
Volume 2 is good too. His book on Pyrrhus is excellent and I heartily reccomend it to anyone interested in that period (Rise of Rome as a "super power, Punic Wars etc.).
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Andy Badger
United Kingdom
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All my Ancients gaming is done using miniatures. I have amassed large 6mm scale armies of Republican Romans, Carthaginian, Pyrrhic and Galatians.
Usually use DBM or Fields of Glory rules. I also have English Civil War and Crimean War armies but that's for another thread.
I do own two board games. Battles of the Ancient World Vol.1&2 but they are unplayed as of yet.
I personally find that miniatures suit this era for some reason whereas for WW 2 I found that operational scale board games seem to work best.
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David Dockter
United States
Minnesota
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AndyBadger01 wrote: Herr Dr wrote: Just finished it: decent read. Volume 2 is good too. His book on Pyrrhus is excellent and I heartily reccomend it to anyone interested in that period (Rise of Rome as a "super power, Punic Wars etc.).
Off to purchase it. Thank you for the recommendation.
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