love the new figures.

Looks interesting. I like the small force size and the sensible movement trays.

I had a game of this at Chillcon last weekend and, although I kinda went because they were giving away free miniatures for playing, it was a really fun game. It plays like a light skirmish game, the rules are fairly streamlined and simple. Plus being a historic game miniatures are likely to be relatively cheap even if you play a larger game of say 50 miniatures each.

In terms of my own performance, I played as the Atheniens who were being ambushed by the Spartans. My only objective was to get as many models off the board as possible. And given how colossaly bad my rolls were it’s a good job. Each custom d6 has the following faces:

2 single swords
1 double sword
2 blanks
1 medusa head (critical fails although they didn’t seem to be in use during the game)

Swords = successes

So you have a 50/50 chance on each dice of rolling at least one sword and the number of swords rolled should average out at slightly above half the number of dice rolled. I can tell you that over the course of the game, right up until what turned out to be the last roll of the game, the average number of swords I was rolling on a 5 dice “hand” was less than 2 on average and the game did start to become a little frustrating for me – especially when, on the two occasions when I actually rolled enough successes my opponent saved easily. About the end of turn three I decided to borrow a dice tray that was sat not being used and I immediately rolled almost a full set of successes on my next roll. The game organiser suggested I should use the “lucky tray” from then on. Turns out it really was lucky because my next roll was similarly high, with I think something like 7 successes across the 5 dice constituting a critical hit. A critical which my opponent had his first real bad roll of the game and failed to save. The kicker was that the critical hit was from my Leader on his Leader and my Leader’s special ability, impale, effectively killed my opponent’s leader outright ending the game with an Athenien Victory. So after a game of utterly abysmal dice rolls I won with a single lucky break. I was unsure how I felt about that. On the one hand I felt like I had somehow cheated, the game had been so one-sided up to that point in terms of dice rolls that it somehow didn’t feel right to have won. On the other hand it was quite cinematic that my leader. Seeing his men struggling, stepped up to the plate and ploughed into his opposite number, making three successive attacks, the first two of which were blocked but the last of which skewered him. It made me think of Achilles and Hector duelling in Troy, my Leaders’ spear battering his opponent, scratching the armour before finally finding that weak point and ending the fight.

It’s definitely a fun game though and is a very easy route into historical gaming.

Very nice.

This is looking like it will be a lot of fun. I really enjoyed Test of Honor. The Greek era will have a lot more legs.

I was reading on Facebook they done a deal with Victrix to produce figures

I am very interested in this. It looks to be based on a great time period.