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Offline nicknorthstar

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Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« on: January 22, 2020, 10:03:43 AM »
We've just had confirmation we'll be getting the new game from Warwick Kinrade in February, Soldiers of Rome. Warwick has a number of rulesets under his belt, the Battlegroup WW2 series, Normandy Firefight and Soldiers of God. Soldiers of Rome is going to be in the same family as Soldiers of God.

Here's his description of the game:
'Soldiers of Rome' is a full battle game, utilizing units of between 8-20 models (cavalry is 4-8 models), in either small fast moving Raids, Field Battles (the standard line-up and fight) or Siege Assaults (one sides gets a fortress to defend, the other attacks it).

It is card-driven, using an action card deck (which will come with the rulebook), to give orders to each of your army's 'Battles'. A 'Battle' is a sub-division of the army, a third of it, either the left, centre or right Battle. These can all act together on the same action card.
The way action cards and Battles interact is governed by your overall Battle Plan, which is a pre-chosen plan of attack (or sometimes defence), which dictates which cards your Battles get for this engagement. These set cards are then added to with random drawn ones, so each game gets an entertaining level of unpredictability, and the cards will never allow a game to be played the same way twice - even if you you used the same forces, over the same terrain, with the same battle plans, the game would still play-out differently.

Picking a force is from one of the three army lists in the game, Roman Legions, Barbarians and Parthians, in a familiar way, except the scenario being played adds restrictions to this. So, Raiding forces look very different to fortress garrison forces or those deployed for a field battle. Each army can be further characterised by its Stratagem, helping, along with the action cards, to bring the character of the army to the fore. Siege Train equipment, ruses and tactics are also available, but only in Siege Assault games.

The rules aren't scale specific, they will be playable at all scales, because the players pick the ground scale and measurements based on their miniatures collection and table-size.


I'm going to invite him on here so you can bombard him with questions.


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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2020, 11:56:24 AM »
When will you have it up for order Nick?
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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2020, 02:54:21 PM »
Ancients seems to be the "Hotness" right now!
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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2020, 03:55:36 PM »
We're expecting it mid-February. We'll put it up for pre-order in the beginning of Feb, along with some army deals using Victrix plastic Ancients.

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2020, 04:39:00 PM »
Pre orders beginning of Feb, brilliant, save me checking your site everyday.
Only wanting 12 copies for the club.

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2020, 03:10:17 AM »
Siege rules!

interesting !

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2020, 09:37:17 AM »
Siege rules!

interesting !

:)
We played a couple of sieges using Soldiers of God great fun.

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2020, 07:08:27 PM »
Super awesome !!!

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2020, 12:49:57 PM »
The latest issue of Wargames Illustrated has a 2 page run through of Soldiers of Rome with Warwick:

http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=14584

As it's in the public arena, I've made it available for pre-order now, but Warwick has said it's not expected before the 15th of Feb.

Just for you guys, if you order it before the 1st of Feb, type this code into our shopping cart Rome1. It'll give you a £5.50 discount, which is to minimise the post cost.

You can order here: http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=14626

We're putting some army deals together as well, as recommended by Warwick, using Victrix plastics.

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2020, 02:32:25 PM »
Yeeeees!
Just emailed an order for 13 copies for South East Scotland

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2020, 11:19:42 AM »
Soldiers of Rome has just arrived, earlier than expected.

We'll start getting the preorders out tomorrow.

Cheers
Nick

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2020, 08:52:42 PM »
Nice, another skirmish based game. Maybe I can adapt it for my Republicans.

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2020, 09:01:10 PM »
It's not. It's full size battles. You might have been tricked by Warwick talking about 8-20 models. That's per unit. I think you need 5+ units.

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2020, 10:15:39 PM »
Maybe ti will helps to put example of one army in three game formats? I still dont know how many minis I need etc.

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Re: Soldiers of Rome by Warwick Kinrade
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2020, 11:31:22 PM »
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It's not. It's full size battles. You might have been tricked by Warwick talking about 8-20 models. That's per unit. I think you need 5+ units.

Even better if that is the case!