Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Precautionary pedestrian knights
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Just-in-time TtS! Tournament Organisation!
We have three TtS! tournaments planned for the second half of 2022. The first event is Britcon in Nottingham on 13th/14th August, less than ten weeks away! This two-day event with somewhat longer game durations- ideal if you are less familiar with the rules. I suspect there will be a great deal of socialising on the Friday and Saturday nights! The university accommodation is all booked so we will be staying in small hotels in the town itself. You can email me if you have any questions at the email on the left- or book, here.
The second event is the To the Strongest! Worlds in Chalgrove, Oxfordshire on Saturday 17th September. This is the most venerable and illustrious TtS! tournament, now in its eighth (or ninth?) year. It’s a thrilling event with four nail-biting games in one day. It is organised by Steve Dover (who you can mail to book your place by contacting StephenJamesDover at outlook.com. There are details on the forum here.
The third and final event is the BHGS Historical Teams event on Saturday 15th October. This is held at the Lee Valley Leisure Centre in north London which is very easy to reach by car. Like Chalgrove, there are four games in one day and you can use any army list from the Ancient Army List eBook. You can book this here. https://www.bhgs.org.uk/tts-bhgs-teams.html The ticket also gets you entry to SELWG which is in the same venue on the Sunday, where I'm hoping to run a big For King and Parliament demo game, assuming I can get the table space. It should be a glorious weekend of gaming!
If you have any questions about any of these, please mail
me at the address to the left! I really hope to catch up with as many old friends (and new) as possible. That's me, below, I'll be bringing those 16 Indian nellies to at least one of the shows.
Friday, 1 October 2021
Cheesy Indians at the London GT!
Last Sunday I took my Classical Indians to the London GT tournament. This is a massive event, mostly attended by Warhammer players, but also the largest tournament gathering of historical players. Above at the Warhammer players. The historical players were amongst those in the mezzanine (below), our players are in the second photo.
We had an odd number of players so I stood down for the first round which meant I had time to take a few mediocre photos, which I present in no particular order. I took other photos later in the event.

1 Tim Thompson 528 Galatian 2 Steve Dover 525 Third Servile War 3 Simon Miller 465 Classical Indian 4 Martin Sharp 450 Classical Indian 5 Andy Lyon 445 Gallic 6 Simon Purchon 438 Principate Roman 7 Gary Stark 297 Selucid Imperial 8 Derek Pearson 279 Batavian Revolt German 9 Colin Bright 259 Middle Imperial Roman 10 Dene Green 255 Lusitanian 11 John Lavender 249 Principate Roman
Friday, 22 January 2021
Hannibal and Chits
We've just started playing an online To the Strongest! tournament called Hannibal Ad Portas, this week I fought my first battle. That's my vast Italian Tribes army at the bottom; 16 victory medals - that's a whole lot for a 130 point army. I played fellow veteran blogger Monty from the US, who had Spanish. It wasn't a game of any great tactical subtlety; we just had at it! I narrowly pipped him by one medal, once I eventually remembered how the rules work. Below is an in-game shot.
If you fancy joining the tournament, which is, I suspect, the only ancient big battle tournament running in the world, just now, please email me and I'll put you in touch with Antony, the organiser. Its very good natured and very international in its nature, and a really good way to learn the rules. Or you can just watch us play online, if you like.
In other news I've released some more coloured activation and stratagem chits, this time in red and dark blue.
That's if for now- I hope to be able to show some more Swiss in a day or so, as that project grinds unremittingly towards completion.
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Hannibal Ante Portas online tournament
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Following on the heels of last year's successful TtS! 1066 and Kingmaker tournaments, Hannibal Ante Portas will be the next on-line To the Strongest! tournament, starting next week.
The tournament, organised by chum Antony, is set during the period of the 2nd Punic War 218 BCE. Players will fight with a variety of armies from the period – Gallic, Hellenistic Greek, Imperial Seleucid, Later Carthaginian, Later Macedonian, Numidian, Parthian, Polybian Roman, Southern Italian Tribes and Spanish, over 10 battlefields that take their inspiration from actual battlefields from the classical period – Lake Trasimenus, Metaurus, Cynoscephalae etc.
We'll be playing online using Tabletop Simulator, which is available on Steam.
The tournament will begin with a ‘pool’ stage that will start on Monday 18th January 2021 and finish on Sunday 14th March 2021, during which players may play as many of the other players in the tournament as they choose.
At the end of the pool stage, the top 8 players, based on their six best results, will then go forward to the knock-out stages. It is expected that we will have a number of players with the same points so we will use the following as the ‘tie breaker’ – Number of Decisive Victories in the 6 best results recorded, followed by, if required, the net Number of Medals Captured.
The quarter final battles will be fought between Monday 15th March and Sunday 21st March with the winners of the quarter final battles progressing to the semi-final battles.
The week commencing 22nd March is scheduled for the semi-final, 3rd/4th place battle and the battle for the title of Hannibal. There will be prizes at the whim of Antony and Simon.
How to Enter
Simply message Antony (aka antman1805), either through the TtS! Forum or the TtS! Discord server – https://discord.gg/4HqHRC7 , giving him your “Discord” handle and name and he will record you as a participant. Alternatively you can email Simon and he will forward it to Antony. Please also let him know which country/time zone you are in to help with arranging games. Antony will need to share names and email addresses in the form “simonmiller60 at gmail dot com” with the other participants so that players can contact each other to arrange games (if this is a problem for you, let him know, there may be a work around). As with previous TtS! tournaments we are looking for players from across the globe, who can't usually make it to the UK-based tournaments or, indeed, any other tournament at the present time.
Even if you are a newbie to the To The Strongest! rules or not even played them before please get involved. We have a great group of players who will be happy you teach you both the game mechanics and how to use Tabletop Simulator- you will be a battle-scarred veteran, by the end! Do please come along - we hope that the card gods will smile kindly upon you.
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
To the Strongest! War of the Roses

Chum Antony Spencer has designed some stunning new digital miniatures for an online TtS! Wars of the Roses campaign, which he will run starting on 7 September. It'll be similar in some respects to the very successful 1066 tournament we ran in the spring, but as well as the tournament element, the outcome of the battles will determine whether York or Lancaster triumphs n the wars.
Thursday, 25 June 2020
TtS! 1066 Online Tournament- the Final Results!
Monday, 18 May 2020
Midsummer Madness- Week 1 results!
STOP-PRESS corrected results!
Thursday, 5 December 2019
TtS! Tournament in Paris
Monday, 23 September 2019
To the Strongest! in Glasgow, Part II
Sunday, 22 September 2019
To the Strongest! in Glasgow
It all went downhill fast and I had no time to take photos, until this shot taken about 15 minutes before the end of the game. I am five medals to three down, and pinned like a caged beast into 1/4 of the table with my left flank totally in the air. It's never a good sign when the other player has to come round your side of the table to play his activation cards!
So with two wins in my pocket; the omens are good for today! Tomorrow, I'll post part two.














































