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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Vis Bellica on November 09, 2018, 02:03:55 PM

Title: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: Vis Bellica on November 09, 2018, 02:03:55 PM

Played my first game of To The Strongest this week.

Quick report at the link below:

https://www.vislardica.com/blog/2018/11/9/first-game-of-to-the-strongest (https://www.vislardica.com/blog/2018/11/9/first-game-of-to-the-strongest)

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5406c773e4b087d8052ef58b/5be58f344fa51a10ca9e9323/5be58f352b6a2841fdc4824f/1541771101716/20181106_175201.jpg?format=1500w)

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: has.been on November 09, 2018, 06:31:00 PM

Thanks for posting. I too have troops gathering dust. Including a matched pair of
Sassanids & late Romans (25mm DBM) which no-one wanted when I tried to sell
as a pair, well I wouldn't want to be left with just one of them.
I shall purchase a copy of TTS & dust them off.

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: MGH on November 10, 2018, 05:56:42 AM

Good game and love the chariots. Our local group love TTS too, I've stopped searching for a good ancients set of rules after trying it. Easy and lots of fun.

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: Wiegraf on November 11, 2018, 03:47:42 AM

Chariot warfare always looks amazing. Thank you for sharing this!

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: A Lot of Gaul on November 11, 2018, 01:48:41 PM

Terrific AAR and pics!  :)

TtS! is truly an excellent Ancients rule set.

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: Erik on November 11, 2018, 03:55:44 PM

Nice AAR. I got into TtS in sort of the same way. My Punic armies suddenly had enough miniatures for this fun new game, and they had never actually seen a wargames table before.

Just as you did I also play it a lot with my 10-year-old son and his friend. We have tried Punic Wars and various medieval periods with great success. I have asked then if they want to try out different rule systems, but they like TtS, because the rules are easy to pick up and allows them to concentrate on the tactics instead. Something that is far from easy to pick up, and they are learning it the hard way.

Cheers
Erik

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: bigredbat on November 11, 2018, 08:09:19 PM

Glad the game was fun!  I love to see kids play- I do have a vague plan for engaging the youngsters, with a future set....

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: Ethelred the Almost Ready on November 12, 2018, 04:27:52 AM

Great game.  I have still never played TtS, but all the game reports look great and it seems to play the way I imagine a real battle would go.   I am envious that you can get your family to play.  I got into skirmish gaming in a hope I could entice a daughter or my wife, but with no luck. 
I hope your daughter will play many more games.

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: Wiegraf on November 12, 2018, 07:08:09 AM

Yeah, after further research from seeing this great chariot set up , To the Strongest seems like a great game. May have to try it out soon.

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: painterman on November 12, 2018, 09:33:15 PM

Hi - great looking game.
can I ask which style of BigRedBat mat that is please, looks very nice?
Cheers. Simon.

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: bigredbat on November 13, 2018, 08:09:21 AM

That's a Sagebrush Steppe mat with a cross grid, probably the 8' x 6' 15cm grid. I had that designed for Raphia. :-)

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: Vis Bellica on November 13, 2018, 09:04:24 AM

As Simon says, that's the 8' x 6' Sagebrush mat with the "visible but invisible" cross grid. Bought from the To The Strongest shop, arrived within three days #topservice.

Title: Re: First Game of To The Strongest
Post by: painterman on November 13, 2018, 03:12:27 PM

Thanks for the confirmation re the Steppe May.
Simon