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

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Yes like Linburger said, the fact that we want the rules to resist and support competitive play, does not mean we aim to produce “new releases with power creep” or “collectible ancient games” 🙂

Even if you were to ditch the point system, ignore the army lists, even take our point system and create other troop types.. I think you would find the rules are still fun… But other players want to simply build an army, go to the club, find a friend, roll a couple of dice to come up with a fun scenario and terrain and play… and that certainly is well supported ( that is tougher to support ).

I love narrative games.. I invite you guys to check my blog  http://www.thewargamespot.com, which you will see LONG predates CLASH, and you will see all my games are narrative games… In fact you will find in the rules things that are there only for narrative players… A competitive gamer will never put an elephant in the list, when you look at the points/benefits, you will rather take more peltasts or velites.. which is natural for the actions represented..

However , you might read Ben Kane’s enemy of Rome and read a fun part where the back of Hannibal’s column on the way to Italy gets ambushed by hostile Gallic tribes…  so there you go.. what a fun scenario.. I just ran that game last Suday…

An elephant from Hannibal’s column who had fallen behind needs to reach the column so elephant an escort try to break through the ambushing gauls…  I do use points a bit when I do those scenarios but because I want both players to be able to win.. but it is certainly a narrative scenario… and it was a ton of fun..

Those are my favorite games… so CLASH allows Alvaro to go and have fun playing a tournament of CLASH all wekend and allows me to spend the same two days running narrative scenarios taken from books or movies 🙂 …

I’m sure there are players for both options :)… I hope 🙂