Swordpoint’s Dark Age Armies Supplement Pre-Orders Up
December 9, 2016 by brennon
Gripping Beast has now added the Dark Age Armies supplement for Swordpoint to their webstore for you to pre-order.
The book covers the period from 300 AD to 1066 AD and contains forty-eight army lists with many variants which is neat. So, you'd be able to field Arthurian armies and of course warbands of Vikings and Anglo-Saxons too no doubt.
This is the first of many different books that will start to create a library of lists and background for you to field armies throughout the Dark Age, Ancient and Medieval period.
On their webstore they say that if you pre-order now you should get the book before Christmas.
Will you be picking this up?
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Looks like a solid set of rules, Don’t know much about Gripping Beast but they seem to be trying to produce a quality product.
Given what’s been going on recently with most historical rulesets I really don’t like the idea of paying for army lists anymore
Or waiting months if I want to play bronze age chariot armies
@torros – what are you referring to? Have there been lots of free rules sets recently which make you unwilling to pay for army lists now? Or are you saying that army lists always used to be free but now companies are charging for them? Or something else?
I am saying that mist ancient rulesets (the ones I want to play) have free army lists
Of the top of my head
ADLG
Basic Impetus
To the Strongest
Sword and Spear
Armati
Warmaster Ancients
DBA
Clash of Empires
I am sure there are more
Just seems more recently that army lists are been given away free rather than they used to be with WRG,FoG etc and these are the games that are being played these days
I think for Dark Age I would like to play skirmish or siege combats more than mass battlefields of ranked soldiers (like the old Roman Legions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOIHEyj6YGc
or that UK film about King Arthur that had Dark Age Roman/Sarmatians (?)
Its funny how films and novels shape our ideas about what narratives best fit historical settings 🙂
All being well, I’ll get a demo of Swordpoint in at one of my local gaming groups this Tuesday- looking forward to seeing how it plays!
Thought I may get a game of this in over the holidays. Daresay I will send off for these army lists too