The Wargame Spot Introduces New Game Clash Of Spears
April 19, 2019 by brennon
The Wargame Spot has introduced a new game for those wanting to delve into Ancient skirmishes on the tabletop. Prepare for a Clash Of Spears.
This set of rules has been created for playing out skirmish games set during ancient times. To be exact, this means for warbands that range from around thirty to sixty models a side. They decided on small 'squads' of men rather than larger regiments to get the feel for desperate skirmishes and inspire people to delve deeper into ancient wargaming.
I'd say the book is looking rather flash, with a good level of presentation and lots of cool artwork and diagrams thrown into the mix.
The focus of their games ties into a few different ideas, including wanting to make this a pure wargame without cards, battle boards and the like, as well as mechanics which really anchored you within the personal and gritty hand-to-hand fighting of the ancient times.
Romans, Carthaginians, and more have been added already, but there are also many more armies on the cards and they are willing to listen to input from fans on this too.
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This is very relevant to my interests!
I am an avid Historical gamer and love the Ancient period. This is a game I am looking forward to getting my hands on.
To know more about CLASH! you can join our FB group at : https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheWargameSpot
Diego
Brilliant stuff 🙂
I was lucky to betatest one of the earliest iterations of the game and I really liked the rules and how intuitive they feel. I’m more into sci fi/postapoc skirmish kind of games, so this wasn’t really my thingy, also it was the first time I’ve played a game in warband-skirmish scale, I was a bit skeptical, but to be honest we had a blast. It got me thinking on getting my own warband just to play with some friends that already boarded the hype train, but I’ll have to read more about this period before deciding what I want… Read more »
An interesting game that seems really well designed, that develops in a really interesting period of history.
Looking forward to play it !!!
Reading through the battle report I like there is what seems like hidden movement
Do these rules cover the entire ancient period or are they more centered around the Peloponnesian War period?
From their blog…
“As I said the rules allow for many periods but in particular if you have Punics-Wars, Greco-Punic wars, or any armies in that 4th-1st BC period in Spain, Italy, Sicily, North Africa, etc, it would be great.”
Thanks @brennon
They’ve playtested this at my FLGS and I’ve seen a few games and their preproduction book. I’m looking forward to seeing the final product.
I am lucky, as one of the designers lives near me and has run Clash of Spears a couple times. I’m super picky about rules, if something doesn’t make sense in my mind I’m probably not going to play the game. To me COS just makes sense, I didn’t run into a rule that made me go “‘huh?”. It’s fast, easy to learn. I’m telling you folks. When this comes to market, get it and forget about ever trying to find another Ancient Skirmish game, just get painting and thinking up amazing scenarios
Friends, thanks for the great article and the kind comments! We have been working on CLASH for quite some time now and are very excited to be in the final stretch to publishing. We also have some great surprises in the works for the release that we know you will all enjoy…we’ll keep you posted!
Saw the shoutout on Weekender! Thank you for talking about CLASH! We are excited to bring it to everyone soon…
Just stumbled across a play test of Clash of Spears on You Tube and my copy of SPQR is destined for the bin! Does anybody know when and where (don’t care how much!) the rules will be available. In the meantime just going to keep on painting so I’ve got the troops ready for when they arrive.
November I believe
Oooh! Can’t wait.
Indeed Mr Goblin! CLASH of spears is coming fast and release date is still November/December…we also have a few other goodies that we will be releasing with the rule set!
If you dont want to miss anything of the release you can join us in https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheWargameSpot/ or you can register at our page http://www.fightinghedgehog.com
Talk to you soon!
This is interesting, but I can’t seem to find it for sale anywhere on the internet. Any clues?
Sorry about that! We’ve been trying to lay crumbs around the internet but as a young publishing company we still have ways to go on that area…game is on track for release in November/December.
If you dont want to miss anything of the release you can join us in https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheWargameSpot/ or you can register at our page http://www.fightinghedgehog.com
Hope you enjoy it!