Battle of Greek Legend with Tribes of Legend!
October 21, 2011 by beerogre
Check out the latest title from our good friend Jake Thornton... Tribes of Legend.
Tribes of Legend is a collection of 3 different games together with painting guides, scenery building, and all the extra gaming goodness you might expect. The setting is the world of the Ancient Greeks, but as they viewed it rather than as you will see in academic texts. This means that armies include drunken centaurs and lithe Amazons as well as the bronze-clad warriors of the city states.
Of the three games, one is a mass battle game, one a skirmish between groups of a few warriors, and the last is a solo game in the ethos of the old Fighting Fantasy game books (though it is entirely different rules).
Wargames Foundry have done a complete new range of models to go with this, and one of the reasons this has taken a while is that it is illustrated with nicely-painted examples of the range throughout. This means that it’s a very pretty book, helped along by rather splendid art like you see on the cover.
Ok, this looks awesome. I’m sold already.
Managed to play both the original version when Wargames Foundry Had their Previous Open day and even chatted to the Designer. Really enjoyed and bought a copy after just one game…
Then on the Open day just gone, had the chance to try out the beta play test version for the new monsters supplement. O’hhh It’s going to be good >:). Made a fe suggestions and variants. Also chatted with there gamers and it should be great. Cannot wait.
Looks interesting but don’t have any suitable models and am not wanting to start another collection just yet.
Already waaay behind where I should be 🙁
Would be good to get a summary from Quirky though!
There is a complete range of models made specifically for this – the ones that are currently available are only the tip of the iceberg (plus Foundry make loads of historical Ancient Greeks too). I’ve not had confirmation yet, but I’m guessing that the new ones will be coming out at the same time as the book. One of the nice things about the way Foundry work is that they’ve waited until they had all the models made, cast and painted before they did the photography for the book, so that it’s illustrated with photos of the whole range throughout… Read more »
Thanks Jake
Just been looking at the blog write up as it happens
Am very tempted to get it and worry about models afterwards,
Like the sound of it so far! 😀
Hopefully Amazon will get some of the sample pages up soon so you can see some of the model range. We’ll have to see what passes the censors 😛
That would be cool
Saw a poster in The USA of a Titian exhibition with the detail of a female nude.
Someone sprayed “BRRR!!!” on it and gave the lass a dress! lol
Worse case scenario you maybe could take a fig leaf out of that book!
At least if people feel they have to deface a poster it’s nice that they have a sense of humour.
Apparently the museum saw the funny side and wanted it to be left but it got restored by the poster company people
very interesting and something to add to the ever grown plie of have to get games – I do like the “semi-real” setting.
The reality of otherwise of the setting is a curious point. Even two and a half thousand years ago the Greeks were debating whether these mythical times were real or whether they were apocryphal, and there have always been those that thought them literally true as well as those who thought them all fiction. For the purposes of this book. I have assumed that there really was such a time, and treated the different forces accordingly.
Huge fan of classic mythology. This goes on my list.