Wargames Research Group Ancients – 5th Edition

Wargames Research Group has a page with lots of their older sets available, including the Fifth Edition Ancients, which were the standard for many years.

Bronze Age Skirmish Photos: Israelites vs Philistines

Here’s a photo montage of our recent game featuring Israelites vs Philistines in a bronze age skirmish. The rules were a home made variant of Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings Skirmish Rules.

The Philistines had superior numbers and were better in hand-to-hand combat. The Israelites had a high percentage of missile troops (bow and sling) who were poor in close combat, but were led by Judges (as in Gideon and Ehud, not Dredd). It was a near thing, but in the end, the might of the Judges prevailed.