Saturday, January 18, 2025

"Dominion of the Spear" Playthrough

   I played a game of "Dominion of the Spear" to show how quickly the game plays out. I will not be giving a description of the rules; as mentioned, I think the price is low enough that most gamers could buy a set if they really want to play. By the way, to took less time to play the game as it is taking me to type out this posting. 

The Picts (on top) attack the Saxon army.

At the end of turn one: a unit of ferocious Saxons have eliminated the Pict archers on the left. A unit of Pict spearmen eliminated a Saxon Spear unit on the right.

The Picts move a spear unit to replace the archers; the Saxons move up a Spear unit on their right.

Turn 2: On the Saxon left the ferocious Saxon Spearmen are broken, but not before eliminating the Spearmen in front of them. In the center the ferocious Saxon spearmen break the Picts in front of them.

End of turn 2: the Picts put their last spearmen to face the Saxon left; the Pict horsemen attack the center. The Saxons feed in their last reserves to the left.

Once again on the Saxon left both Spear units fight, and both units are demoralized and break. In the center, the ferocious Saxon spearmen eliminate the Pict horsemen, and the last Pict Spear unit is eliminated. The Saxon win a hard fought battle!

  



9 comments:

  1. Sounds like the rules are good when you want a quick game and get the miniatures out on to the tabletop.

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    1. Since I retired, I seem to have even less time for gaming! I think these rules, or TPW rules will be how I am going, at least until I manage my time better.

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  2. Happy Peter Laings being in action again in a quick fast game which scratches the itch.

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    1. These rules got me excited to used my Peter Laings again.

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  3. My games are usually quicker than the time it takes me to report them!

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    1. I always enjoy your battle reports. I think I will go back and read them again for more inspiration. Your comment reenforces my thought that this is the way of proceeding forward with my gaming.

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    2. Thanks very much John, that's very encouraging. I've been playing some very quick battles recently to test out a slightly different style of play.

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  4. The rules certainly give a very quick game. I’ve been toying with how to add to the battle rules by building a campaign (linked scenarios, reinforcements etc).
    Cheers,
    Geoff

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  5. I am toying with the idea of using DotS armies with The Portable Wargame original Ancients rules,except that the SPs would use the DotS unit points.

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