Today on Little Wars TV, historian Myke Cole joins us to discuss one of the most famous (and misunderstood) battles of the ancient Greek world--the Battle of Thermopylae. In popular history, it's known as the last stand of King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, but Thermopylae is much more complicated than that. After talking to Myke Cole, three guys from our wargaming club travel to challenge Mark's Game Room for an epic, club versus club showdown. We're wargaming the land and naval battle simultaneously to decide the fate of Western Civilization! Will Xerxes find a way to punch through the Greek position or can the Greeks pull off another heroic stand?
This episode is sponsored by our friends at Diratia Productions, 3D sculptors of awesome historical miniatures in multiple scales and eras of history. For a limited time they're offering 10% off their STL files at MyMiniFactory with the promo code "LittleWarsTV". They have ancient Greek and Persian miniatures for you next Greco-Persian wargame:
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The wargame in today's video was played using Osprey's "Men of Bronze" rules and Brian DeWitt's fast-play "Greek Fleets at Sea." Brian told us that you can email him directly if you'd like a copy. He's selling them for $5 and his email is brian.dewitt@juno.com.
We'll be talking more about "Men of Bronze" in a future video here on our channel. You can visit our official website and look under the Free Stuff section for our heavily-revised version of the QRS. It's 100% free at www.LittleWarsT....
Finally, a huge THANK YOU to the guys at Mark's Game Room for hosting us, filming the game, and also doing the editing! They did an awesome job and you should check out their new channel for more miniature wargaming goodness.
6 сен 2024
