Thaks for sharing. Sounds like you had fun! :D

We have not played with so many rabble yet. We have gone for 15 rabble against a group of 4 so far and they were not much of a challenge even if they scored a few damaging hits. What would you all consider to be a number that is creally challenging but not totally overwhelming for a standar warrior group?

Not having read HoH myself, I was unaware of that statement at the start of the book. That statement in the book clears it. Thanks.

In general I (and my troupe) prefer games that are based on historical or semi historical settings to have characters that are representative of such settings. There are 2 women in my gaming table and they tend to be the contrary of what you say: they hate when they are told that they can play characters that they feel unrealistic in "historical" settings because of modern sensibilities. The rest of the troupe feels the same. We try to play the setting we are in, not the modern world displaced to a fantastic land.

Failing to find great a high presence of warrior women images and characters in a rulebook about the Greek myths and being against gender equality in the XXIst century are two extremely different things. I would be wary to leap between the 2 statements so easily.

HTML is the code of internet forums, so you are likely to have seen it. Thinks like using [ b ] for bold and [ i ] for itallics. CSS escapes me completely as well. BOL Should be easy to program, since it is basically 8 numbers, 3 derivative totals and some additions to it (virtues and flaws, and equipment). Not very complicated compared to other character sheets. being a programming analphabet myself I cannot contribute more than that, though. Thanks for the info on roll20 in any case

Nice review. Hoplites were not elite warriors of Greece but *the* warriors  but apart from that it sounds solid. I miss an auxilia (medium infantry) and a psiloi (light infantry) career path there, but then I am a sucker for this types pof distinction and the BoL engine does not need them. Since it is supposed to be a hero-oriented game in the Micenic period they can be all bundled in Soldier without problems

I like the new ideas introduced for heroes (the faith mechanics, Fate and Cleos) and the mass combat rules for infantry and ships sound really cool. The whole cults sections seem great.

The chariot rules seem to be somewhat weird, since chariots were not used for raming in greece but as taxi services (move in with a chariot, dismount, fight on foot, move out with chariot when you want to stop fighting). I think I heard you say khopesh for weapons but I hope you said kopis. The author generally seems to know what he is talking about in other sections and I doubt he failed here.

I found it funny to hear the Greek god and character names with an English accent.

The only thing I missed is a review of the actual book. Durability, layout, font size, words per page... and a review of the internal artwork.

Nice review. Thanks for sharing

Very nice hack. I like it. Congratulations. Maybe some info on how to handle ships would be appreciared, but appart from that I think it can work perfectly as written The character sheet is also really nice. I just would remove the 2 blank pages so it is shorter (6 pages) but that is me.

Testing the edit function.... YAY!