Acemhöyük: Trials of the Crescent Axe – Myth-Inspired Ancient Wargame

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Acemhöyük: A Myth-Historical Wargame

While reading about ancient civilizations and conflicts, one thing became clear to me – myths, gods, and horrific creatures were real to these people, and so what better way to portray ancient battles than to make the supernatural as real as they were believed to be?

Acemhöyük is a wargame written while living in Turkey and drawing from the ancient Anatolian civilizations that once lived there. In conjunction with Iliada Game Studio, we created a simple yet effective mass battle game with a unique command system that makes for interesting decisions.

This game is aimed at 6mm scale miniatures, and laser-cut MDF miniatures are available from Iliada Game Studio by request. This is a mass-battle game, somewhat in line with Warhammer Fantasy Battles, but much simpler.

The game mixes real ancient historical warfare and command limitations with the beliefs and rituals of the old civilizations - sacrifices, sorcery, protection granted by the storm gods, and the ability to turn the enemy into women!? (ancient Hittite beliefs were... interesting!).

Some factions lean more on traditional tactics and heroism, while others rely on foul sorcery, or rituals and sacrifice to please their gods.

The gameplay is quick and deadly, with games lasting less than 2 hours.

The factions in Acemhöyük have names drawn from ancient Anatolian history, and make use of units in use by armies of the near east (modern-day Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt), from roughly 2000BC – 330BC. We also make use of their myths, and sometimes invent things that are cool for the sake of fun. Feel free to invent your own factions and units as you see fit – a points system is provided at the end of these rules so you can work out the stats and points values for new units.