How do you wargame a legend

Описание: Wargaming well-documented conflicts is one thing. You can look up uniforms, battlefield maps, and first-hand accounts until the cows come home. But what happens when you try to wargame a period like the Trojan War, where myth, archaeology, and history overlap and blur? That’s the question I’m exploring in this video.

The Trojan War is a fascinating challenge for tabletop gamers. On one hand, we’ve got Homer’s Iliad, full of gods, heroes, and epic duels. On the other, we’ve got archaeology, offering fragments of weapons, walls, and cities at Hisarlik that hint at something real beneath the legend. Somewhere between those two is the space we, as historical wargamers and miniature painters, inhabit.

Do you lean into the myth and put gods and Amazons on the tabletop? Or do you strip it down to gritty Bronze Age warfare and try to reconstruct how chariots, shields, and spears may have been used? Neither answer is right or wrong—that’s the joy of it.
Join me as I discuss the challenges, opportunities, and creative freedoms that come with gaming poorly documented periods like the Trojan War.

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