Slightly delayed: The Sword and the Flame reviewed

[Pijlie]

Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor,
         For 'alf o' Creation she owns:
We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword an' the flame,
         An' we've salted it down with our bones.

A friend making an inquiry prompted me to write a review about this lovely and venerable ruleset. Written by Larry Brom and first published in 1979 The Sword And The Flame has been played by thousands of people for 36 years now. It’s about time I wrote a review! After all, it is this set that heralded my return to wargaming some fifteen years ago after getting infected with the bug by the great, late (because the site has been down for years now) Major-General Tremorden Rederring, an alias of American gamer David Helber.


The ruleset derives its name from the lines of the Kipling poem cited above and not surprisingly is placed firmly in the Golden Age of the British Empire, starting around 1830 and ending with the First World War....

Read more here: http://pijlieblog.blogspot.nl/2015/10/the-sword-and-flame.html

[MaleGriffin]

A very overdue review.    I started playing TSATF back in 79 and in many ways it is still my favorite miniatures game. I love the period, the disparate weapons, the uniforms, the politically incorrect glorification of the Colonial Period and especially the cinematic way the game seemed to play out. I've played virtually every theater, opponent and period. It's been 36 years and it is still played and just as much fun to paly as when I discovered them.

[italwars]

i really love me too the "politically incorrect" approach of the game...and don't care a bit of obscure  thoughts that could impede me to "play" colonial