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 Authors 
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Aitor Jiménez Yañez: Writing, art and design.
Jesús Guardia: Writing.
Miniatures 
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Jesús Guardia: Spartans (X
yston,
AB).
(Xyston,
Daniel Monreal: Medieval Navarrese (Legio Heroica).
Javier Guinda: Gauls (Essex).
Aitor Jiménez Yañez: Seleucids (X
yston,
Forged in Battle), Clas-
(Xyston,
sical Greeks (X
yston,
AB), Parthians (X
yston),
Late Medieval French
(Xyston,
(Xyston),
(Legio Heroica), Sengoku Samurai (Baccus).
Special Thanks 
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La Historia en Guerra, Wargame group from Navarre, Spain.
Phil Barker and the Wargames Resarch group, which created the
wonderful De Bellis Antiquitatis rules.
•
Dieter Steman, for his Cardinal and Olde English fonts which
decorate the titles, released under OFL.
•
Frederic Goudy, who in 1913 designed the Cloister Initialen
fonts, from which the initials in this document are derived.
•
Igino Marini, for his revival of the John Fell fonts designed in
XVIIth, released under OFL.
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INDEX
 Introduction
 Introduc
tion
Preparation
Playing
Resolving Battles
 Adapting
 Adapti
ng
The Rules
Peloponnesian
Pelop
onnesian
War
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Version: 1.0.1
2019/08/18
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INTRODUCTION
argaming is
usually
fo-
cused
on
battles. Two
armies
nd
themselves on a proper bat-
tleground, they have bal-
anced numbers and know
their enemy. The players,
representing some kind of
Commander in Chief (CiC),
start giving orders with a
crude abstraction of a com-
mand system. Some kind of
morale or objective decide
the winner. De Bellis An-
tiquitatis (DBA) is no ex-
ception: It’s a surprisingly
simple ruleset in which both
players put two armies, each
of twelve units, and they
ght to the death on the
battleeld.
However, as far as real-
ity goes, this is a pretty poor
representation of how battles
exist, especially in ancient
warfare. Balanced battles are
rare in historical context, and
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The dierences between terrain elements in the game can be massive.
two big armies don’t just ca-
sually meet in the afternoon
after some tea. The terrain
is neither a symmetric and
balanced setup nor a weird
combination of mountains
and other terrain designed
to favour the defender while
the attacker strolls into the
trap (although that can hap-
pen in some ambushe
s).
ambushes).
In DBA
however,
the opposite
usually occurs.
probably the kind of decisive
battles that DBA represents
better. Both sides have a bal-
anced army, both sides have
pros and cons, and neither
uses weird terrain setups.
However, if we go with
the dierence of troops,
battles like Gaugamela or
Cunaxa, even Carrhae, are
basically impossible to
represent fairly. Sure,
 you unitsjust one that
the can of say side
are bigger than oth-
First, by having
ers, but there’s not
both players use ex-
much support for
actly 12 units, there
it in the rules, and
is not much room
it wouldn’t be rep-
for representing bat-
resented in the bat-
tles with unbalanced num-
tleeld. Of course, for set
bers. Battles like Zama are battles, you can just decide a
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