Reply To: Talking a bit about CLASH of Spears ( well more than a bit )

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Scale – having the options to chose from is always good. Personally I prefer 28mm for skirmish and this gives me the reason to paint up some legionaries which is something I have wanted to do for decades. Having them on sabot bases gives some flexibility for both individual and multi-bases. For any larger games 15mm it is, and one day I will do that too.

Having a few example set ups for terrain is always useful to understand the intent of the designers. It need not be too detailed like the Kill Team or War Cry cards, but a bit helps. Pictures, like the ones in the batrep comics do this.

We tend to play on 3×4 or 3×5 simply because that’s what the dining table is. If necessary we tend to adjust the first term movement a little to compensate for the smaller footprint.

The initial army lists don’t quite do it for me as its the late Republic and Empire rather than the Punic or Macedonian wars, but pretty everything is pretty open here but the sounds of it. A fantasy version would be interesting as I would not mind a universal system as I have an elf and dwarf army here in boxes that otherwise will never get used. If you can fit in a tree-peoples army to be able to use an AoS Sylvaneth you’d tick all my boxed.

The actions versus fatigue choice sounds rather good to actually play out. I probably would be guilty too of always trying to get the maximum out of any activation rather than holding back.

The hidden deployment is something I am on the fence about. I get the idea behind it, but until playing its hard to estimate its impact on gameplay.