The Grass Crown
BGG rank
BGG #14,413
BGG rating
7.9

The Grass Crown

2021

Rules assistance for The Grass Crown

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 60 min
  • Complexity 2.7/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for The Grass Crown

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

The Grass Crown is a board game released in 2021 for 2 players and 60 minutes per game. It was designed by Amabel Holland and its main mechanics are Square Grid, Grid Movement, and Simulation.

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About the game

This second game in the Shields & Swords Ancients series recreates ten battles spanning nearly three hundred years of Roman history. As was the case with the first game, With It Or On It (2019), The Grass Crown is a fresh, innovative taken on familiar material. The primary unit of maneuver is a "Wing" which itself consists of ten or so individual counters. Losses can be resolved by flipping the individual unit that was attacked, or by flipping any unit adjacent to it. Unrelenting pressure in the right places can prompt a Rout Check, causing the line to collapse. As the result of a single attack, multiple units can find themselves in your dead pile. This simple but compelling theme sees many variations thanks to special rules that chart the evolution of Roman warfare, and contrasts them with the rigid Greek Phalanx, the sophisticated army of Hannibal, and the ferocity of the Gauls. The ten battles are: Heraclea, Asculum, Trebbia, Zama, Pydna, Second Citra, Vercellae, Pharsalus, Thapsus, and Munda.

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Publishers

  • Hollandspiele

Questions and answers

The Grass Crown supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.