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The Die Is Cast (1992)

Ancient Wargames Rules Designed to cover the rise and fall of the Roman empire. These rules are especially suited to refights of historical battles. No, you don’t have to rebase your figures. Yes, they play as fast as DBM. No, you won’t have to buy new army list books, in fact you can use the armies you use for other rules. Included are morale rules so that bad troops run away, good troops hang around a bit longer. General figures don’t fight but have command and combat ratings to inspire the troops that do. The rules are designed to encourage historical tactics.

The Die is Cast features;

Simultaneous play with both players moving, shooting and fighting at the same time.

Rules can be used with any scale of figures or basing system.

Combat system uses D12’s, with one roll needed to work out the casualties. No; to hit, to wound, to save needed.

Commanders of different levels of ability.

Three different styles of melee; infantry vs infantry, cavalry vs cavalry, cavalry vs infantry.

Handy A5 sized rule book.