Clash of Spears: It Arrives

After an enforced delay due to the COVID situation locking down the distributors UK warehouse and then another delay in arranging for a delivery whilst I was home it has finally arrived.
I had hoped to land the Roman starter box as well as the Carthaginian one but the distributor had not sent those out to the shop so I need to wait on those being released. In fairness that is fine as I want to complete the Ostrogoth force first before I start on these chaps.
The book itself is of excellent quality by first looks and comes with a lovely thick fast play sheet which will no doubt soon be going through the laminator.

The rules are for unit skirmish games of about 30-40 models split into 4 - 6 units, depending on the make-up of the army, so similar in scale to SAGA. So the starter boxes come with enough models to build around 900 points worth of troops (normal game size being 800-1000 points) using Victrix plastic models. Normally you'd need to either buy the individual sprues from Ebay or invest in many more models than you need so the starter box is a great foundation for any force. At present 3 boxes are in production, Carthaginian, Roman, & Gauls, but with several more being released soon (depending on the pandemic of course) which will include Iberian, Greek Cities and Pyrrhic expedition.

The rules are set to cover the Punic period and the Syracuse wars on Sicily that preceded them so you could mix and match pretty much all these forces with each other to create historical actions. So I'm thinking of adding an Iberian starter to the Roman one as they fought as allies/mercenaries for both Romans and Carthaginians as well as on their own.

The box like the book is very nicely produced, especially considering that this is the first offering from the Fighting Hedgehog company, and has some nicely painted models to help with the inspiration. Inside where the Victrix sprues (no bases) and some stat cards for the units you could build. I hadn't realised the cards came in the box so that was a nice bonus.

Again the cards are of really nice quality and have the special rules for the unit on the back so once you get the basic rules down you should just be able to play using just the fast-play sheet and the stat cards.

So all in all a very nice parcel to receive today with lots of goodies in. I also received some extra kits from Gripping Beast for the Ostrogoth force so expect to see some more painted troops next week.