Swordpoint - EIR vs. Dacians

Well, just wrapped up playing my first game of Swordpoint at my buddy's place. I brought some of my Celt/Britons to help beef up the Dacian force. It was a fun game with 8 players - all of us playing the rules for the first time. I don't have the rules yet, but most of the others had them and had read through them already. Of course, being authored by Martin Gibbins, there is a strong WAB flavor to the rules. However, being my first time with them, it took me a few turns to figure out the sequence of play. I ran several units of Dacians, and was made the overall commander with Decebalus in my care. We played what I believe were about 3 or 4 turns, but again, the sequence of play kind of threw me off a bit. Mainly, the shooting phase being simulatenous and the movement phase following declaration of charges and reactions to the same sort of confused me a bit. Overall it was fun, and for a first time, not bad at all. Not sure when we'll be playing it again though. Here are a few pictures from the game I managed to take.

My buddies like trying out rules and have a lot of different sets. Some of which we've only played a few times before moving on to other sets.

On the paint desk, started on the Duchy of Warsaw command set. After that, plan to finally playtest my Imjin War Siege of Ulsan game. This needs to be done as I've already signed up to host it at our big convention, Enfilade, in May. Until next time, wishing you all the best and thanks for stopping in to check out the blog!