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1986 · 2-2 players · 60min · weight 2.00 · 191 ratings
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ID
1782
Name
Ancients
Year
1986
Rank
9663
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2
Num weights
32
Bayes avg
5.59459
Average
6.77173
Users rated
191
Num owned
371
Wanting
12
Wishing
70
Num comments
118
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (6)
Dice RollingGrid MovementHexagon GridMovement PointsRatio / Combat Results TableScenario / Mission / Campaign Game
Categories (4)
AncientMedievalPrint & PlayWargame
Description (334 chars)
Ancients is a board wargame of Tactical level combat in the age before GunPowder. The game contains over five-dozen historical Ancient and Medieval battles scenarios, and many more are being added. King of Kings (itself later republished by 3W as Imperator) was a companion game. The Rules of Ancients are in the "Files" section.
LLM v2 (wide)
Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).
LLM v3 (deep)
Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).
LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)
Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).
LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)
Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.