"Saxon Shore" Topic

Has anyone seen or played this campaign game
I found it while looking for Dark Age maps….
It seems ideal for what I have in mind……IE a campaign background for miniatures games, but I would like to know what more seasoned campaigners might think of it

I'm sorry to go off topic, but when I read "Saxon Shore", my brain connected it with "Jersey Shores". <Shudder>

(I'm not sure why; I'm quite familiar with period, and have seen the term many times….)

worryingly, mine went to the UK version 'Geordie Shore'

Which might be the one that goes on about vajazzles. Which gets even weirder when you put it together with hordes of hairy Saxons.

Err sorry for going off tangent, I'm sure Saxon Shore is a great game

I believe the vajazzle thing is "The Only Way Is Essex"….

Do you mean The Saxon Shore is Burning published by SOA?

I have played it solo once. I was looking for a framework for my Britannia campaign tabletop battles and came across it by accident.

It is a great game, as my one outing with it demands me to say. There are loads of great ideas in there and they hang together nicely. I don't think it is a close simulation of Early Medieval Britannia as it lead me, for instance, to focus on trade alot, which my fantasy of the era doesn't support.

However as I toil away with the campaign scaffold for the milieu mentioned I return to it for its wealth of neat mechanisms. The army creation limits, use of warrior monks, building costs and schedules, the NPC province upgrades – this stuff is gold. There's more too and I recommend any solo campaign builder to have a look.

A mighty thanks to the author from me! Have a go solo and see what you think. I for one wouldn't play it again, necessarily, but it is a well and often perused document in the rules folder.