Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare magazine podcast.

My name is Jos Porthaus.

You've reinforced the team today.

Joining us are, as usual, Marry Don and Michael.

And at the buttons, our producer, Angus Wallace.

But we have a guest, and his name is Mark Beckhouse,

and he's the author of a new war game called Strength and Honor,

which tries to, I don't know, well, I guess we'll establish that, whether it's simulate

or just give an impression of warfare from the, oh, I think the Caesarian period into the Antoin

period, Mark, is that right?

I think you probably should introduce it a bit more than that, yeah, from the time of Marius's

reforms, if they even took place or not, from about what's that, about 105 BC through to, yeah, about September 7th, Severus, so about 200 AD, something like that.

So it's the time of the, I suppose, the sort of cohort, cohort allegiance, I suppose, again, something opened the debate, I suppose, but a cohort, co-holt legion, I suppose,

again, something open to debate, I suppose,

but about 300 years in.

How does it work? I mean, we have to assume that not everybody here is a gamer.

People just enjoy reading about ancient warfare.

Sure.

So what it is, it's a set of war games rules.

I suppose the idea behind it is that people can get together with armies of modern soldiers and refite some of the epic, huge clashes of the Roman world inside that time period there.

It's a game, but it's also, I suppose, got quite a strong element of historical background to it all.

So the idea is to replay and refight some of those big battles there

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