We are now moving to playtest our upcoming module for running CLASH campaigns. As we work on this we wanted to share with you followers how the campaign advances. For this initial playtest we have chosen the setting of the first Punic war as this is a great setting that includes plenty of alternative actors …
Read More The Punic Wars begin! – CLASH Campaign 2022/23
Well, at least for US and CANADA. We have our online store for CLASH of Spears up and running, but only for US and Canada. And slowly due to the current situation CLASH is making it to retail stores. Our distribution in Europe however is currently on hold. We still need to finish shipping some …
Read More Clash of Spears is now available
We now have an online landing page for CLASH of Spears. This page has download materials for CLASH such as aid cards, scenarios, playtesting material a link to the online army builder developed by one of our backers, instructions on how to build your victrix miniatures and much more. You can access this page by …
Read More Online Resources for Clash of Spears
As we are yet to fulfill the printed books and minis to the KS backers, hopefully about to start very soon, it was time to go back and start playtesting Dark Ages with CLASH again. We had done this early on, as many players had armies readily available from SAGA. When we moved on to …
Read More CLASH in Normandy
The core concept of CLASH of spears was developed around a kernel of principles based on our understanding of personal combat derived from reading multiple sources over time, combined with the research most wargamers do from time to time and combined with our personal experiences resulting from years of competitive fencing. However once you get …
Read More Researching CLASH of Spears
We are almost there. It has been a long journey from writing to playtesting to expanded playtesting to balancing lists to working out printing and distribution but we are finally getting there… CLASH of Spears is getting here and we expect to launch a pre-release offer in November-December so to sign up for any news …
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So Nick Bogart from Skirmish Supremacy came to help us and filmed a nice video while Alvaro and I played a small game of CLASH. Skirmish Supremacy is a fantastic podcast with tons of great info on what is coming out new in wargames, with play through videos and great interviews, so you should have …
Read More CLASH of Spears gameplay – video !
Yet another game of CLASH of Spears ( #clashofspears ). Syracuse and Carthage are at war and the Greek forces have surrounded the Carthaginian Army camp near the river Crimissus. The Carthaginians are trying to get supplies to the camp by sending multiple small columns trying to dodge picket forces, but this particular column has …
Read More Getting supplies to the Carthaginian camp near Crimissus
Another great game of CLASH of Spears (#clashofspears ), the Carthaginian city of Apsis has fallen and chaos takes over the streets. We zoom into a small action taking place on the slums of the eastern quarters… Clash of Spears is well suited to represent raiding actions, scouting and similar encounters but also to represent small portions …
Read More Bloodbath on the streets of Apsis
Continuing with the insights and peeks into Clash of Spears here we are presenting you a small of example of the mechanics that you will find in our game. This is only a glimpse but you can see some of the elements in the game, fatigue, actions and reaction, flexibility in formations and combat stance, …
Read More Roman Legionary vs Carthaginian Warrior