The latest news from Ancients website.
Here you can find a couple useful articles about some good strategies to be aware of before playing this great game.
| [STRATEGIES] How to attack in Commands Colors Ancients? |
| [STRATEGIES] How to defend in Commands Colors Ancients? |
Many thanks to Michal for writing them.
Hi guys,
recently Benedetto shared with me a couple scenarios.
Here you go.
| BR04 Sellasia (222 BC) |
| BR05 The Fall of Motya (398 BC) |
Thank you Benedetto for your contributions.
Don't forget to see all his scenarios in his "Designer Page" (Benedetto Giovanni Roselli).
Enjoy playing these CCA maps!
Hi guys, Travis Taliaferro submitted 6 new scenarios.
| TT30 Olynthus (382 BC) |
| TT31 Irasa (570 BC) |
| TT32 Momemphis (570 BC) |
| TT33 Cyrene (400 BC) |
| TT34 Elleporus (398 BC) |
| TT35 Ambush at Laus (389 BC) |
Thank you Travis for your contributions.
If you would like having a look to all maps created by Travis, then take a look at his "Designer Page" (Travis Taliaferro).
Enjoy playing these CCA maps!
Hello everybody,
I've just setup a new website module to show all scenarios from actual map category.
If you enter in a specific scenario and scroll down at the bottom you'll find a section called "Maps in this Category".
This section groups all scenarios from the actual map category in a more graphic way.
This option is available in both scenario view and category view. It's also fully functional on mobile device!
I hope you like it.
Alessandro
I've just published the latest scenario from Giulio!
I'm also posting reference to the previous one because I haven't done it before.
All scenarios from Giulio can be found here (or inside "scenario designer" section).
Thank you for sharing!
Hi guys,
another year passed by and we have to prepare for the brand new 2018!
This website is a "one men" work so feel free to contribute in every way you decide using the PAYPAL icon on the top-right corner.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely
Alessandro
I'm cross posting this message on all other C&C website.
C&C: Ancients Community is proud to welcome and enjoy a new Scenario Designer: Giulio Bottazzi.
| GI01 Battle of Mutina (43 BC) |
| GI02 Forum Gallorum (43 BC) |
From now on you will find the complete list of his works in his "Designer Page".
Welcome aboard Giulio and thank you for your submission.
Hi guys,
just to inform you that I've just completed the update of all armies in "Variants - Army List" category with all cross reference about enemies.
After porting old website to the new platform I lost all armies internal links but now I've recovered them (adding army name too).
Hoping for you to enjoy this new feature and let you easily choose your army when playing "Scenario X" variant.
Don't forget to enjoy every game.
Ale
C&C: Ancients Community is proud to welcome and enjoy a new Scenario Designer: Michaël Lagarde.
Here under you can find his linked scenarios to recreate Alesia Battle.
| ML01 Alesia I (52 BC) |
| ML02 Alesia II (52 BC) |
| ML03 Alesia III (52 BC) |
| ML04 Alesia IV (52 BC) |
| ML05 Alesia V (52 BC) |
| ML06 Alesia VI (52 BC) |
From now on you will find the complete list of his works in his "Designer Page".
Welcome aboard Michaël and thank you for your submission.
Hi guys and Welcome in this "fresh new" website dedicated to Commands and Colors: Ancients game by Richard Borg.
A big thank you goes to Robert Koch for creating "Game Results" recording component.
You can see it "in action" in each scenario page, with restored data from previous website.
I've also restored Ancients Scenario Statistics webpage, linking it also on Top Menu, under Maps.
Moreover I've added "Most Played" and "Last Played" visualization on Homepage bottom, adding a table style to better show values.
For suggestions, reference, corrections or any other issue you can use the website FORUM.
Welcome back!
Alessandro
And here it comes the "Autumn Gift": 5 new scenarios, mostly from Sicilian Wars.
| JD141 Abacaenum (393 BC) |
| JD142 Damurias River (338 BC) |
| JD143 Second Himera - 409 BC |
| JD144 Gela - 405 BC |
| JD145 Abolus River - 338 BC |
Thank you Jim for submitting 5 new scenarios on commandsandcolors.net/ancients map database. Your contribution is awesome.
If you would like having a look to all maps created by Jim, then click his name Jim Duncan and see his "Designer Page".
Don't forget to update CCA Vassal extension with all his maps.
Enjoy playing these CCA maps!
I've published 5 new maps by Jim Duncan.
| JD46 Pandosia (331 BC) |
| JD47 Saticula (316 BC) |
| JD48 Sutrium (310 BC) |
| JD49 Arretium (249 BC) |
| JD50 Lake Vadimon (283 BC) |
I've published 5 new maps by Jim Duncan.
| JD51 Tispasa (213 BC) |
| JD52 Siga (212 BC) |
| JD53 Tingis (212 BC) |
| JD54 Himeras River (211 BC) |
| JD55 Bagae (328 BC) |
30.000 unique visits and 200.000 page views!
To celebrate this great event I would like to propose an unique scenario, written by Jim Duncan and set in Issus (333 BC): JD60 The Thirty Thousands (333 BC).
It's also available a new Extension that groups Jim Maps from JD41 to JD60. CLICK HERE to download it.
Nowadays our Maps Archive counts 358 different Scenarios!!!!!!
Many thanks to all Scenario Designer for help our map database growht.
I've published 5 new maps by Jim Duncan.
| JD61 Sangala (326 BC) |
| JD62 Paraitacene (317 BC) |
| JD63 Gabiene (316 BC) |
| JD64 Ipsus (301 BC) |
| JD65 Arbela (331 BC) |
I've created 2 new sections:
Comments and feedbacks are always welcome.
Enjoy playing CCA.
Alessandro
Mr. John Foley (Author of the very first official website dedicated to CCAncients - http://www.thewargamer.com/ccancients) recently contacted me to congratulate about the website and, after my request to publicly quote his comment he elegantly replied:
“You are free to post my comments - I did not write them to call any attention to myself - you deserve the highest praise for such a beautiful and useful resource. Thank you and my very best wishes, John“
You deserve much more than this, John.
“I have been so busy designing and developing other games that I have been out of touch with this beautiful game, C&C Ancients.
Your web site is magnificent.
Thank you for using any of my previous materials and classifications and pulling them together in this simply SUPERB resource.
Bravo, bravissimo!
John Foley“
I want to THANK YOU, because your meticulous work gave me the impetus to start this adventure.
Thewargamer.com is the First Attack, commandsandcolors.net/ancients the Momentum Advance.
Aaron Bell (a.k.a. bestbandis on BGG) is back, publishing his hexless variant for Commands & Colors: Ancients!!!
This is pretty much a straight conversion from the board game to a hexless, tabletop version. Use the normal unit stats and rules as written unless there is anything here that supersedes them.
These rules are intended to keep the flexibility of the boardgame while making it look and play a little more like a classic tabletop rule set.
For play you will need appropriate figures based on DBx-standard elements. Units should be four elements in double-line if foot, three elements in wedge formation if cavalry, and two elements side by side if elephants, chariots or war-machines. Elements are not removed as casualties. Use markers to keep track of losses.
For easier reference, HEXLESS VARIANT RULES has been added to "Variants Menu" on the left (CLICK HERE).
In Download Area you will also find the original PDF by the author (CLICK HERE).
Just published 5 new maps by Jim Duncan.
| JD70 Protopachium (89 BC) |
| JD71 Chaeronea (86 BC) |
| JD72 Halys River (82 BC) |
| JD73 Anas River (79 BC) |
| JD74 Ambush at Longobritae (78 BC) |
An online tournament using the Vassal C&C Ancients module.
Commands & Colors Ancients is a board game designed by Richard Borg and published by GMT Games (http://www.gmtgames.com/), which allows you to re-fight epic battles of the ancient world.
Vassal (http://www.vassalengine.org/) is a free software utility that allows you to play board games in real time over the internet. A module for playing C&CA is available from the Files section of its webpage on the Vassal website.
The tournament is hosted on the C&CA Vassal Players Yahoo group (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/ccavassal/). It features two phases of play. In the first phase, players will be organized into a Swiss system draw for match play (playing both sides of a scenario against their assigned opponent in each round). In the second phase, the top eight players will be seeded in a single-elimination quarterfinals bracket to determine the ultimate champion. The full rules for the tournament can be found in the Files section of the Yahoo group.
To sign up for the tournament, you will need to join the C&CA Vassal Players group and go to the Database section where you will enter your information in a tournament player database.
Registration is open until October 25, 2009.
Hi guys, this time Jim Duncan surprised us with 8 new maps that can even be played as a campaign: Judas Maccabaeus.
You can read some scenario notes here.
| JD75 The revolt begins (166 BC) |
| JD76 Beth Horon (166 BC) |
| JD77 Ammaus (165 BC) |
| JD78 Beth Zur (164 BC) |
| JD79 Beth Zacharia (162 BC) |
| JD80 Adasa (161 BC) |
| JD81 Elasa (160 BC) |
| JD82 Ashdod (147 BC) |
Moreover with these maps we have broken 4 hundreds scenario limit: our scenario archive now counts 405 MAPS!!!!!
Hi guys,
under Articles --> CCA Related section you will find 3 interesting articles by Michal.
Thank you Michal for sharing these great articles!
Hi guys,
I'm working on a "refresh / restyle / update" about CCA Vassal game module.
Here you can find a very first preview of latest additions (changelog):
Please follow the "work in progress" and post your suggestions on BGG Forum.
Thank you in advance.
Alessandro
Hi guys,
the user "LeonardoAngelo" found some missing scenarios and I think it would be great for us to cover the gap.
Let's see if there are some good scenario designer out there (I do know there are a lot of them) to create these missing scenarios.
Here you can find a brief list.
More details in the forum thread.
| 1) Multistrat 260 BC |
| 2) The Battle of Egesta. 260 BC |
| 3) Parop battle . 260 BC |
| 4) Liliba 250 BC |
| 5) Battle of mount Eryx. 249 BC |
| 6) Battle of mount Eryx. 244 BC |
| 7) Battle of mount Eryx. 241 BC |
Hy guys,
I've just published some new staff:
Belove you can find direct download links.
Again, Happy New Year 2018 and enjoy playing as usual!
Alessandro
Hi guys,
I've finally published 3 scenarios from Vae Victis magazine.
| VV01 Marcianopolis (377 AD) |
| VV02 Battle of Salices (377 AD) |
| VV03 Adrianople (378 AD) |
Many thanks to Michal for sharing them.
Enjoy playing.
Hello everyone,
i've tried to restore a previously available filter / tag called "Playable with Base Game"
You can find it here.
with this TAG you can group all scenarios that can be played with base game only (based on unit counts).
Enjoy playing and don't forget to record each play stat!
Hi guys,
It looks like yesterday when I decided to group all C&C website under a single web domain (commandsandcolors.net)... but a full year has passed!
A single domain has the great benefit to ask for a single renewal so I'm here asking for your contribution to keep this website free, updated and without annoying ads!
Feel free to contribute in every way you decide using the PAYPAL icon on the top-right corner.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely
Alessandro
I'm cross posting this message on all other C&C website.
Hi guys,
I've changed a little bit "top menu".
After login the right most link will be changed in "user" menu with the following "submenu":
These should be "self explanatory"... :D
I've also tried to introduce "Played Games" as a sort of "own played game record". Every users should see his own played games.
Let me know if you'd like to have more details under this menu.
Regards
Ale
Hi guys, with kind permission from Rodger B. MacGowan, I've just published 2 new EPIC maps taken from C3i Magazines #26.
| C3i21 EPIC Argentoratum (357 AD) by Kevin Duke |
| C3i22 EPIC Paraitacene (317 BC) by Kevin Duke |
If you would like having a look to all maps from C3i Magazine, then click the name and see the "Designer Page".
Enjoy playing these CCA maps, and don't forget that...
all material from C3i Magazine is Copyright ©Rodger B. MacGowan (RBM Publication)!
Hi guys,
under kind request of user Mark McG I've enabled PMS system also here on C&C Ancients website.
You can simmply contact a user using the little "baloon" icon under his profile (inside FORUM).
In case of problems, please report them on the Forum so that I can fix them ASAP.
Enjoy gaming, playing and surfing.
Ale
Miguel
READ MORE for detailed infos.
I've published 4 new maps by Jim Duncan.
| JD56 Telamon (225 BC) |
| JD57 Persian Gates (330 BC) |
| JD58 Galeria (312 BC) |
| JD59 Ephesus (498 BC) |
Hi guys, recently I've created some USERBARS to be used wherever you like:
- I support commandsandcolors.net/ancients website
- I prefer Carthaginians
- I prefer Romans
- I prefer Greeks
- I prefer Eastern Kingdoms
- I prefer Barbarians
- I prefer Marian Romans
If you like them, please, ask me for creating your own personalized UserBar. It's FREE.
In Download Area you will find 2 new files:
1st Edition corrected Dice symbols
For those who still find a "1st Edition" CCA for sale somewhere, the original game had the dice stickers slightly too large to fit into the recessed portion of each dice. GMT quickly posted these as replacements.
The Phalanx V1
Unofficial variant for scenarios featuring Macedonian/Successor Heavy Infantry. (by BradyLS)
For easier reference, The Phalanx has been also added to "Variants Menu" on the left (CLICK HERE).
I've recently seen the sticker art for the purple Roman army and wanted to report a "nice touch" that is being included... if players do own the rest of the system (likely most purchasers) and want to do a side shuffle of sorts.
The victory banners here are Roman eagles, with a gray background.
If you remember, the base game Roman VBs had a red background. The Red Romans of RvB had VBs with a purple background. By giving a gray background VB to the purple Romans, those who wish for a little more literal alignment can swap VBs around in their armies-- so that each Roman army has VBs of it's own particular army background color.
| Base Game Rome vs Carthaginian |  |  ner.jpg" border="0" /> |
| Expansion 2 Rome vs Barbarian |  |  ner.jpg" border="0" /> |
| Expansion 4 Imperial Roman | PURPLE BLOCKS | Eagle + Grey Backgound |
| Base Game Rome vs Carthaginian | | Eagle + Grey Backgound |
| Expansion 2 Rome vs Barbarian | | ner.jpg" border="0" /> |
| Expansion 4 Imperial Roman | PURPLE BLOCKS | ner.jpg" border="0" /> |
That's nice under any circumstances, but might be particularly nice if you're doing RCW type battles with two Roman armies fighting each other.
In these days Miguel worked a lot on a restyle for his MM01 Thermopylae map.
Here you can find his work report:
I have been working on a new Thermopylae (once more!!!)... It was after the remarks of Bevan on BGG on my Thermopylae scenario, and having a closer look I realised that I didn't like it...
The other two ones, from Joe (X18) and Don (A10), treat the fighting on the wall in a too small scale to my taste, and the flanking around the mountains distracts from the battle itself. I made mine with the wall diagonal because I was afraid of doing a too big scale, with the wall going along the whole board. But then the retreat paths were awkward, the fighting was left-to-right, and the flanking force, though treated as the official ambushes, sometimes arrived too far from the Greeks.
I made some tries, solo, with my brother, and sending some tests to Bevan, who tried it with his group and sent feedback! I have kept the starting cards, but left out the deck "clock", removing 20 cards was complicated (specially in VASSAL!), I wanted only a few special rules but that gave the right flavour to the battle.
The ambush is now very effective; "300 Spartans vs 100 Nations" centers the fight around the Spartan HI, gives a better chance to the Persian, gives more importance to "Rally", and conveys the overwhelming Persian numbers without filling up the starting board. "Go Tell" introduces interesting choices at the beginning of each Greek turn. And no more elephants, Bevan thought that that was too "300 the movie" and that it introduced a too random element in the fight!
Just published 4 new maps by Jim Duncan!
| JD66 Anapus (415 BC) |
| JD67 Arigaeum (327 BC) |
| JD68 Sparta (272 BC) |
| JD69 Cremona (200 BC) |
Recently Bill Bennet posted on CCAvassal Yahoo Group! some news the new version (v 3.2) of famous C&CAncients module to play online using VassalEngine.
Extension files fully compatible with version 3.2 of the C&C Ancient module are also available. In order to simplify downloading, you will find them assembled into a single archive file, named "CCAv3_ExtensionPack.zip".
Unzip the file into an extension folder named for the v3.2 module, as appropriate to your system (i.e. "C&CAncientsv3_ext").
You should find all extension files contained in the archive file:
You can download it here: CCAncients_V3 and also Extensions.
If you are searching for the "Italian Cards"... I'm working on it! Stay tuned.
Thank you Bill for your great work! Commands & Colors: Ancients online game experience is even better with your new Vassal module!!!
On left menu under "Rules" you will find "Expansion 4" with full details about:
Moreover you will also find a complete scenario list HERE.
Many thanks to GMT Games LLC and to Mr Tony Curtis (GMT Games LLC manager) for granting permission to publish all these materials.
Recently Jim Duncan posted loads of new scenarios so I've decided to create a new CCA Vassal Module Extension to group them all and easily get them played online.
Here you can find his full module list:
Unzip the files into an extension folder named for the v3.2 module, as appropriate to your system (i.e. subdir "C&CAncientsv3_ext").
Thank you Jim for your hard work!
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