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

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Well the choice of going with the Punic era for Clash of Spears is the best one. Usually most companies go for early Imperial period armies/rules, but by then it’s just Rome vs the “Barbarians”. The Punic era covers the rise of Rome and the bitter fighting that happened between Rome and it’s competitors. It’s an era that’s colourful, filled with armies that were distinctly different from each other (both in dress and unit makeup/tactics). It’s an era when things could have gone is so many different ways (Rome wasn’t in an “auto-win” situation), with alliances, betrayals, and an amazing amount of political intrigue.

Was very interested to hear how gamers have scaled up the games to 100 figs a side, and how “fake” deployments can scupper the best laid plans (rather than the usual “line em up, and walk directly towards each other that we usually see). I know Victrix already do two bags of Samnites /Oscans (for your Italian tribes) in 24 fig packs at the moment (so you don’t have to buy them in a bag of 60), as well as the “allied” Italian troops (in more Republican Roman Style equipment).

But again steering away from the typical Imperial Roman era trope that we normally see and steering gamers into the REAL period for ancients is a spark of genius (if you’ve never looked at ancient gaming before).