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Title: Skirmish Rules for Sword fights
Post by: fusilierdan on August 22, 2024, 01:53:14 AM
I'm looking for a set of rules that covers individual combat and is played on a grid. Searching this form hasn't brought up anything. I'm sure I read about them here and I thought I had saved the link to the site that sold them. I can't remember the name and they may have been a Fantasy set.

Any thoughts, recommendations?  Thanks for the help.

Dan
Title: Re: Skirmish Rules for Sword fights
Post by: SJWi on August 22, 2024, 06:25:51 AM
From memory several of the Roman gladiator rulesets are grid based and at the end of the day they are about "individual sword fighting", if a tad period specific. The Society of Ancients game is certainly grid based.
Title: Re: Skirmish Rules for Sword fights
Post by: Hobgoblin on August 22, 2024, 08:35:44 AM
I'm looking for a set of rules that covers individual combat and is played on a grid. Searching this form hasn't brought up anything. I'm sure I read about them here and I thought I had saved the link to the site that sold them. I can't remember the name and they may have been a Fantasy set.

Any thoughts, recommendations?  Thanks for the help.

Dan


Melee (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/306835/the-fantasy-trip-melee) by Steve Jackson Games? It uses a hex grid, and it's free, so you can't go wrong.

It's a great game!
Title: Re: Skirmish Rules for Sword fights
Post by: Gibby on August 22, 2024, 08:37:23 AM
The Fantasy Trip is another one, I think? Is it essentially the same game as Melee?
Title: Re: Skirmish Rules for Sword fights
Post by: tikitang on August 22, 2024, 08:40:07 AM
The Fantasy Trip is another one, I think? Is it essentially the same game as Melee?

Melee is basically the combat system from the RPG The Fantasy Trip, but released as a game in its own right.
Title: Re: Skirmish Rules for Sword fights
Post by: Hobgoblin on August 22, 2024, 08:45:01 AM
Yup: The Fantasy Trip is Melee + Wizards + additional background, monsters and skills, etc.
Title: Re: Skirmish Rules for Sword fights
Post by: Gibby on August 22, 2024, 10:39:10 AM
I suspected so - I mentioned it mostly because it may have been the name that fusilierdan had seen it under on here. Pretty sure tikitang had a thread with it in action.
Title: Re: Skirmish Rules for Sword fights
Post by: tikitang on August 22, 2024, 11:17:28 AM
Pretty sure tikitang had a thread with it in action.

I don't recall, but I doubt it...I had plans to do something with it but like most of my ideas they failed to materialise!