I first encountered To The Strongest in Edinburgh, visiting my good and now sadly departed friend Mr Hodge for a game of I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum. We passed a table full of figures with chaps having a jolly good time, and Derek mentioned the rules and how they gave a great game.
I thought nothing of it, but then found out that my regular IABSM opponents down south played a lot of TTS, even entering the big annual competition. I asked if someone would show me how they worked, friend Bevan stepped forward, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I now play TTS on a regular basis, up-sizing my old Vis Bellica armies to suit, and even basing my new (at time of writing!) Classicial Indians on element bases specifically for the game. Over the first (long), lockdown, I introduced Daughter #1’s boyfriend to the game, and had a weekly session where we’d regularly get two or three battles in. I’ve even actually played TTS against Daughter #2, with her favourite commander “The Beardless King” in charge, and am so far zero for two down! I’ve even invested in a large ECW collection to play the ECW variant For King & Parliament, my first venture into pike and shot but that, as they also say, is another story. Click on the pictures below to see some AARs.
The AARs
Two the Strongest, Game Three: Teutonic Knights & Lithuanians vs Burgundian Ordnance and HYW French
Two the Strongest, Game Two: Teutonic Knights & Lithuanians vs Macedonians & Thracians
Two the Strongest, Game One: Teutonic Knights & Lithuanians vs Principate Romans & Armenians
Warfare 2024, Game Four: Venetians versus Pechenegs
Warfare 2024, Game Three: Venetians versus Parthians
Warfare 2024, Game Two: Venetians versus Komnenon Byzantines
Warfare 2024, Game One: Venetians versus Timurids
Hittites versus Siamese (Thai)
Crusades Game Two: Venetians Abroad versus Anglo-Normans
Crusades Game One: Venetians Abroad versus Mameluke Egyptians
Anglo-Normans versus Akkadians
Venetians versus Made-Up Indians
Alexandrian Macedonian versus Made Up Indians
Britcon Game Four: Venetians verses Florentines
Britcon Game Four: Venetians verses Thessalians
Britcon Game Three: Venetians verses Sea Peoples
Britcon Game Two: Venetians verses Spartans
Britcon Game One: Venetians verses Zanj Revolt
Britcon Warm-Up: Venetians verses Thessalians
Burgundian Ordnance versus Ancient British
New Kingdom Egyptians versus Italo-Normans
To the Longest Game Three: Later Italian Condotta (Venetians) versus WOTR Yorkist
To the Longest Game Two: Later Italian Condotta (Venetians) versus 100YW English
To the Longest Game One: Later Italian Condotta (Venetians) versus 100YW English
To The Smallest Game Four: Timurids versus Sassanid Persians
To The Smallest Game Three: Timurids versus Neo-Assyrians
To The Smallest Game Two: Timurids versus Sassanid Persians
To the Smallest Game One: Timurids versus Classical Indians
Classical Indian versus Burgundian Ordnance
Timurids versus Early Byzantines
Timurids versus Early Byzantines
Timurids versus Sassanid Persian
Timurids versus Sassanid Persian
Ewelme Game Four: Venice (Abroad) vs Later Crusader
Ewelme Game Three: Venice (Abroad) vs Granadine
Ewelme Game Two: Venice (Abroad) vs Later Swiss
Ewelme Game One: Venice (Abroad) vs Later Tibetans
Roll Call Game Four: Venice (Abroad) vs the Catalan Company
Roll Call Game Three: Venice (Abroad) vs Ayyubid Egyptians
Roll Call Game Two: Venice (Abroad) vs Almoravid Berber
Roll Call Game One: Venice (Abroad) vs Later Swiss
Venice (Abroad) vs Timurids
Venetians vs Tang Chinese (World’s, Game Four)
Venetians vs Ancient British (World’s, Game Three)
Venetians vs Tang Chinese (World’s, Game Two)
Venetians vs Sengoku Samurai (World’s, Game One)
Timurids vs Vikings
Vikings vs Timurids
Venetians vs Parthians (Welsh Open, Game Four)
Venetians vs Tang Chinese (Welsh Open, Game Three)
Venetians vs Later (Eastern) Romans (Welsh Open, Game Two)
Venetians vs Ayyubid (Welsh Open, Game One)
Timurids vs Normans
Early Imperial Romans vs Normans and HYW French (Two the Strongest 2023 - Game 3)
Early Imperial Romans vs Wars of the Roses (Two the Strongest 2023 - Game 2)
Early Imperial Romans vs Early Imperial and Polybian Romans (Two the Strongest 2023 - Game 1)
Early Imperial Romans vs Tang Chinese (Warfare 2023 - Game 4)
Early Imperial Romans vs New Kingdom Egyptians (Warfare 2023 - Game 3)
Early Imperial Romans vs Polybian Romans (Warfare 2023 - Game 2)
Early Imperial Romans vs Eastern Franks (Warfare 2023 - Game 1)
Papal Italians vs Sicilio-Normans
Sicilio-Normans vs Papal Italians
Early Imperial Roman versus Chin Chinese (British Open at SELWG 2023 - Game 4)
Early Imperial Romans versus Galatians (British Open at SELWG 2023 - Game 3)
Early Imperial Romans versus Middle Imperial Romans (British Open at SELWG 2023 - Game 2)
Early Imperial Romans versus Dacians (British Open at SELWG 2023 - Game 1)
Early Imperial Romans versus Early Imperial Romans (World Championship 2023 - Game 4)
Early Imperial Romans versus Timurids (World Championship 2023 - Game 3)
Early Imperial Romans versus Medieval Russians (World Championship 2023 - Game 2)
Early Imperial Romans versus Western Han Chinese (World Championship 2023 - Game 1)
Early Imperial Romans versus Hoplite Greeks (15mm)
Early Imperial Romans versus Ostrogoths (Britcon 2023 - Game 5)
Early Imperial Romans versus Later Carthaginians (Britcon 2023 - Game 4)
Early Imperial Romans versus Hapsburg Burgundians (Britcon 2023 - Game 3)
Early Imperial Romans versus Sassanid Persians (Britcon 2023 - Game 2)
Early Imperial Romans versus Dacians (Britcon 2023 - Game 1)
Early Imperial Romans versus Hapsburg Burgundians
Early Imperial Romans versus Classical Indians
Early Imperial Romans versus Mongols
Anglo-Normans versus Neo-Assyrians
Vikings versus Normans
Normans versus Vikings
Italo-Normans (Sicilians) versus the Tang Chinese (28mm)
TTS European Championships 2023
Vikings versus Burgundian Ordnance
Marian Romans versus Ancient British
Burgundian Ordnance versus Vikings
Vikings versus Vikings: The Decider
Vikings versus Vikings Again
Vikings versus Vikings
Burgundian Ordnance versus Medieval Scandinavian
Medieval Scandinavian versus Burgundian Ordnance
Later Carthaginians versus Venetians
Classical Indian (Republican) versus Akkadian
Akkadians versus Classical Indians (Republican)
Sassanid Persians versus Gauls
Gauls versus Sassanid Persians
Gauls versus Sassanid Persians
New Kingdom Egyptians versus Akkadians (15mm)
Classical Indians versus Alexandrian Macedonians (28mm)
Alexandrian Macedonians versus Classical Indians (28mm)
Classical Indians versus Alexandrian Macedonians (28mm)
Akkadians versus Classical Indians (15mm)
Feudal English versus Feudal Scottish (28mm)
Welsh versus Feudal English (28mm)
Akkadians versus Classicial Indians (15mm)
Classical Indians versus Greek Hoplites (15mm)
Classical Indians versus Greek Hoplites (15mm)
Marian Romans versus Galatians (15mm)
Marian Romans versus Gauls (15mm)
Sasanid Persians versus Marian Romans (15mm)
Classical Indians versus Marian Romans (15mm)
Classical Indians versus Achaemenid Persians (15mm)
Marian Romans versus Gauls (15mm)
Classical Indians versus Marian Romans (15mm)
Marian Romans versus Sumerians (15mm)
Marian Romans versus Syracusan Greeks: (15mm)
Sassanid Persians versus 100 Years War English (15mm)
New Kingdom Egyptians versus Assyrians (15mm)
Sarmatians versus 100 Year War English (15mm)
Sarmatians versus Syracusan Greeks (15mm)
Fantasy Ancient Greek versus Sumerians (15mm)
