Monday, December 12, 2011  Hydaspes replay and comparison with 4
fast play rules  I replayed the Battle of Hydaspes on a 2'x2'
board using four different rulesets and compared how they went. 
The rulesets used:   • Rally Round the King   • Justified
Ancients   • Fast Ancient Battles - my miniatures version of
Bill Bank's Ancients board game   • "Ancient Warrior Battles" -
my homebrew solo friendly ruleset based on concepts in the above
three. WARNING: This post is the Hydaspes troop definition and
deployment plus the rules discussion and DOES NOT contain battle
reports.  It is longish - half is troop types, deployment and
strategy and the other half comparing the mechanisms of the
rules in the context of the replays.  I am writing up the
battles and will post links to them here when done.  As part of
Solo appreciation month - November 2011 - I thought I would
quickly run through a historical replay with a few of my current
favourite fast play ancient rules on a 2'x2' board. The first
historical battle I ever