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Offline Trebian

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Spartans and Successors
« on: 02 October 2021, 07:52:58 PM »


A quick plug for my most recent set of rules here. "Spartans and Successors" is a simplified play-on-a-kitchen-table set of rules for battles during the golden age of Greece & Macedon. The game uses DBA sized armies and playing cards (no dice!) on a 10 x 7 grid. The scale of figures is irrelevant as long as they fit in the squares. The rules include 12 historical scenarios and cost £5 from Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09H8MQKZ2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 and Wargame Vault https://www.wargamevault.com/product/372325/Spartans-and-Successors

There's a fuller description of mechanisms and so on over at my blog: https://wargaming4grownups.blogspot.com/p/spartans-and-successors.html

Go on. Treat yourself.

Offline Kugelfang

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Re: Spartans and Successors
« Reply #1 on: 10 October 2021, 05:51:58 PM »
I did. I treated myself and got a copy of these since I enjoyed reading 'To Ur'. I haven't read them yet but I'm sure I'll try them out once I've cleaned off my table and square it off.

--jeff
http://www.petiteguerre.blogspot.com

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
    -- 'The Go-Between', Leslie P. Hartley (1895-1972)

Offline Easy E

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Re: Spartans and Successors
« Reply #2 on: 15 October 2021, 04:44:55 PM »
Always good to see more games!
Support Blood and Spectacles Publishing:
https://www.patreon.com/Bloodandspectaclespublishing

Offline Trebian

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Re: Spartans and Successors
« Reply #3 on: 15 October 2021, 07:59:37 PM »
I did. I treated myself and got a copy of these since I enjoyed reading 'To Ur'. I haven't read them yet but I'm sure I'll try them out once I've cleaned off my table and square it off.

--jeff

Thanks for your support. Inexplicably I posted the original item, and forget to mark it so I'd get follow ups. What am I like?

Offline Trebian

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Re: Spartans and Successors
« Reply #4 on: 15 October 2021, 08:01:16 PM »
Always good to see more games!

I do my best. That's my second set for the year, compared with 4 in 2020 (although one of those was a supplement). always trying something different.

Offline SJWi

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Re: Spartans and Successors
« Reply #5 on: 17 October 2021, 06:18:39 AM »
Bought a copy at the Partizan show last week, and read through them yesterday.  Read well, some interesting mechanisms and I look forward to giving them a run out. Just need to dust off my Hoplite Greek and Achaemenid Persian armies. My Seleucids may have to stand in for their earlier brethren.

Offline Trebian

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Re: Spartans and Successors
« Reply #6 on: 17 October 2021, 10:09:02 AM »
Bought a copy at the Partizan show last week, and read through them yesterday.  Read well, some interesting mechanisms and I look forward to giving them a run out. Just need to dust off my Hoplite Greek and Achaemenid Persian armies. My Seleucids may have to stand in for their earlier brethren.

Good to meet up! I won't admit to who stood in for who when I was play testing, just to say that my Assyrians have seen more service as troops other than Assyrians as they have for their own side.

 

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