Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[scott holder]

Starting in March 2020 with the onset of the Plague, me and some college buddies decided to revisit some games we played back in the day. These guys are not gamers per se, but loved the old-school multi-player political games.

That's when I learned about Vassal:
https://vassalengine.org/

We saw Kingmaker and were hooked. I haven't played a game of that since the late 80s when we used it as the strategic game when I was helping to playtest DBM for Phil Barker.

Anybody at Fall In will know at some point we started playing Circus Maximus and got so hooked on that, we played it for a year, only stopping recently to veer off into non-historical territory with the game Pandemic.

That's when I learned the game's basic mechanics had been used to produce a nominally historical game, Pandemic: Fall of Rome. The authors go to great pains to say it's not an historical simulation. Doesn't matter, it's a nice interpretation of the late Roman strategic experience.

Details on the game itself:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/260428/pandemic-fall-rome

I bought the game mainly to be able to create the graphics for a Vassal module:
https://vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Pandemic:_Fall_of_Rome

If you ever get people together to play it, once you are familiar with the rules, a game with 5 players takes about an hour. It's a bitch to win so it's not bad as an historical simulation given it mimics history.


scott

[Frank Gilson]

sounds great...