Blood Eagle - Dark Age Skirmish Rules

Craig Cartmell writes:

This depends on how many points per side you agree upon. We recommend people start with 250 until they have got a hang of the rules (which usually takes 1-2 short games).

Historical, Heroic and Legendary use the same core points system but obviously as you go more to the legendary end your forces tend to have a few more high-value troops.

So at 250 points you'd put down roughly 8-12 Historical, 7-10 Heroic and 5-9 Legendary figures. Unless you are fielding Jotun as these bad boys are very expensive and you'll get 3-5 max (plus a Polar Bear or two).

There again you could have just one heroic leader, all kitted out for Christmas, surrounded by a Fianna of a dozen lesser men.

The way the game is set up it is unlikely to see any two forces alike despite there being only a dozen Warbands in the book. That said, on the blog today, we have an article that guides you through creating your own unique Warband. link
This article includes a completely new Warband for those who like their slavs – The Wend.

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NickNorthStar of North Star writes:

Blood Eagle, the game of skirmish combat in the legendary Dark Ages by Craig Cartmell and Charles Murton. link

What Is So Special About This New Game?

One is that the rules engine is the author's tried-and-proven system from their games In Her Majesty's Name and Daisho.

Two is the setting. In the author's words:

Have you ever wanted to replicate the bloody feats of heroism you see in The Thirteenth Warrior movie and the Vikings! TV series, or recreate the many great stories from the Norse sagas and Eddas or the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and poetry? Be faced by an enemy shieldwall and then hurl yourself at it regardless of the cost? Jump onto the deck of a rival's longship while at sea and wreak your revenge on the man who destroyed your village? Harry the coast of a foreign land and return laden down with silver and slaves? These rules allow you to fight such encounters across Northern Europe, Scandinavia, and the British Isles in the 9th and 10th centuries.

Perhaps you would also want to replicate the heroic feats of such characters as Lord Uhtred, Ragnar Loðbrok, the shield maiden Lagertha, Egil Skallagrimsson, Erik the Red or the mighty Beowulf himself. These rules give you all you need to create and play heroes of legend.

You may even want to face trolls and frost giants, lead a Sidhe warband to raid a Christian monastery, master the darkest of arts and become a deathless Draugr chieftain, or even test your courage against the mighty Grendel himself. These rules also include the tools to run games set in a legendary past.

You can do all of this if you play Blood Eagle, skirmish wargaming in the legendary Dark Ages.

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If you are looking to buy a copy at Salute, go to Wargames Emporium's stand, they'll have a pile of them.

For the U.S.A., Brigade Games and On Military Matters will have copies soon!

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