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Before Dave Murry and Barry Murry designed the seminal The Ancient Art of War in 1984, best-selling wargames like SSI's Kampfgruppe bear no resemblance to best-selling strategy games like M.U.L.E. As a result, strategy gamers and wargamers are two secluded camps who don't speak the same language. The Ancient Art of War united the two camps in one masterful stroke. Here, at last, is a wargame that wargamers would enjoy for the excellent engine based on the classic war treatise by Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu. Implementing tactics based on Sun Tzu's words becomes the key to victory.
Strategy gamers were drawn to the game for its colorful graphics, the chance to match wits with 8 of the most famous military leaders in history in their most important battles, and intuitive command interface. Here is your chance to challenge the goddess Athena, Alexander the Great, Geronimo, Crazy Ivan, Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Sun Tzu himself. As in the first game, battle locales are varied and historically important. You will wage wars in the Sherwood forest, ancient Rome, Asgaard, Custer's Last Command, Napoleon's France, ancient China, the Appalachians, and Mongolia.
The game, like chess, is simple to learn, yet hard to master. The lack of campaign mode is just about the only criticism I can think of. Suffice it to say that anyone who's never played this game is missing out an important chapter in the history of war and strategy gaming. Two thumbs up! Review By HOTUD.
It seems that may indeed be fading away like the Ancient Armies between its covers. Heading over to the website reveals a sombre notice for those of you who enjoyed this Historical Wargame After a little bit of digging it seems the Warhammer Historical line was handed off reluctantly to Forge World but even then it appeared the writing was on the wall for this game. Outside of popularity at a few convention events and with dwindling demand the game began to fade away until it was no longer viable to keep it running. While existing stock can still be purchased elsewhere there will be no new content and we imagine the IP won’t be moved to another company. It appears the game was having limited success but the real question is did any of you folk play this? For those of you that did, where will you be heading next for your Historical Wargaming fix? Let us know in the comments below whether this closure will be having any effect on you?
102psaid: On That’s a shame. I always really, really wanted to play Warmaster Ancients, Over the Top, and Legends of the Old West. I never got the chance to play them, or even purchase the books; Games Workshop didn’t exactly make it easy to purchase their historical rulesets, especially for someone across the pond.
That, and GW didn’t do much promoting for their historical games. The success was always going to be limited. Talk about a wasted opportunity! GW could have used Warhammer Historical to try out pdfs for gaming supplements and rules. They could have produced various (more than 3) dynamic historical vignettes–I know Games Workshop can do better than Wargames Illustrated!
This is just disappointing news. 162psaid: On Dismayed to hear this, but can understand why the line has been dropped.
Essentially games like the Legend series and Trafalgar/Waterloo, etc are represented by smallish scale of miniatures and the ranges out there are well covered by companies other than GW. Another factor may be that this will be incorporated into the FW website in due course; fingers crossed for this option. If anyone gets the chance to play these games, get stuck in as they do play very well – there are a number of these games I intend to get my hands on. Hopefully I’ll still get the opportunity. 29psaid: On sad to see Warhammer Historical go.
A cynical person might wonder whether this reflects GW’s plan to keep their customers entirely within their own hobby ecosystem. For WFB, LOTR and 40k a customer needs only GW stores and the GW site to get everything they need, and the more incurious customer will never look elsewhere. Since GW don’t make historical figures, a new player following the Warhammer Historical button on their site would need to start looking for alternative miniature companies- which means other wargaming retailers.
At that point, they’ll probably discover WarmaHordes, Kings of War and other systems too, and GW risks losing that customer. Perhaps I’m being overly cynical, but High Street presence has always been GW’s USP, and in the internet age you protect that advantage. 1959psaid: On Yes I play WAB If you play other Warhammer games the basic mechanics are the same. You could get a 40K/fantasy player up and running in no time at all. I suppose it’s downfall was that everybody else made the figures apart from GW, so they were hardly likely to push it. That said the rules are still out there as well as period army lists (codex) and they should now be cheap to pick up.
You have the rules if you and your friends can play 40K/fantasy and have fancied a go at Ancients historical you’ll find this quite easy to learn. As for alternatives I’am looking at Hail Caesar thanks to the guys at Warlord and I quite like the look of War & Conquest. Clash of Empires is another that I would like to have a look. 1psaid: On I am primarily a HIstorical gamer and designer. It is a shame that GW could never succeed in the much much larger market of historical gaming. The standards are much higher for game design and GW games are pretty much considered Kindergarden gaming in the historical gaming.
Meade autostar etx-60 manual. There were a lot of good people envolved in the projects though and Flames of War was born from a project that started with GW Historicals. So it was worth it in the end. Don’t hold your breath looking for Rick Priesty’s games to become the historical standard. He has a long long haul before he gets true acceptance in the community. He is trying though. I have never seen anyone flog their name all over the publications as much as he does. Blackpowder and Caesar are good basic games but nothing truly special.
3psaid: On to blank with GW, They are going to fare. I understand why they did it but, man come on. There is so much out there that is not, I repeat not 40k, fantacy or lord of the rings. I just bought there new book and was looking forward to the second book. I switch to historical and was loving it. Here in CA, there was very little to no historical to speak and I could pick there historical and play with one fast read because I am a ex GW gammer and knew fantacy. GW are just becoming the bullies on the block and no one is calling them out.
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292psaid: On This happened because GW historicals was never supported in stores due to not producing figures where the main turnover and profit have always been for GW. Historicals was seen as a fob off to the community allowing a leap from GW sci fi/fantasy to historical without challenging the mind set of those weened on 40k and such. No real investment was ever made in it beyond a conversion to real world army ideas and tactics as it was never intended to be added to the core business. When world economics clamped down hard it was on the cards that rationalisation would take place and historicals is the first sub sector to be removed. It won’t be the last. The GW business model for some time has been to maximise profits regardless of sector needs. When any manufacturer loses sight of the market place or abuses it with the single intent of taking money with both hands the final result is defined.
It is a British company and has a big market place share so I should be cheering them on but when they sacrifice all for profit margin I cannot find it in me to feel good about it. There are more deserving manufacturers out there for my cash but the main question is what will be the main must have rule set? For years GW has dominated this and it is the ruleset that drives the game and the army collections.
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This is also true of historicals where a main player has withdrawn from supporting it. There is a void.
Who will fill it? What will become the standard must have rule set? 180psaid: On Not so sure why everyone goes on about profits, because what any and every business in a free market does is find a good/service to provide and figure out a price. Games Workshop’s price may be too steep for you or the goods they provide (finecast) might be shoddy, but do realize they are not a charity and that is a good thing as they employ many people in Britain and around the world.
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GW made the decision to shelve a game that was too costly to keep going. This actually will allow others in historical gaming with the challenge of finding the right mini/rules/etc. GW would not have ventured into historical gaming for fun, there must be the possibility of historical gaming doing well. Now what’s left to do is for some bright soul to make it all happen. By the way, maybe the Perry brothers can make it happen? They have the most amazing historical miniatures. 771psaid: On I enjoy my Warmaster Ancients but Im not so keen on WABthe source books for WAB are awesomeI have a shed load of them.
Good news is that figures are independent from GW so the game cant really die WAB struggled due to lack of support by GW, DBx systems and Field of Glory plus its basically WHFB so if you hate that your not be keen on WABIMO. You still see WAb played here and there, in fact I saw a game of the ECW variant in action last night. Saddest thing is that all the specialist games are really good but get little love.