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Shogun, designed by Michael Gray, [1] was first released in 1986 by Milton Bradley as part of their Gamemaster series. It was renamed to Samurai Swords in its first re-release (1995) to disambiguate it from other games with the same name (in particular, James Clavell's Shogun, a wargame with a similar theme, released in 1983), and renamed again to Ikusa in its 2011 re-release under Hasbro's ...
Two-handed swept, with circular or squared guard. Scabbard / sheath. Lacquered wood, some are covered with fish skin, decorated with brass and copper. [2][3] A katana (刀, かたな) is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.
Swords of the Serpentine. Swords of the Serpentine is an 2022 urban sword-and-sorcery role-playing game by Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner. Its rules are based on the Gumshoe System [1] and it is published by Pelgrane Press.
Bleak Sword. Bleak Sword is an action role-playing video game developed by independent studio more8bit and published by Devolver Digital. The game was originally released on September 19, 2019 for iOS, macOS and tvOS through Apple Arcade, with an updated version, Bleak Sword DX, releasing on June 8, 2023 for Nintendo Switch and Windows. [1]
Swordquest is a two- or three-player game in which the good, evil and druidic forces search for a lost artifact, in the guarded treasures of each of the towns of the fantasy land of Tiirane. [1] The designer, R. Vance Buck, wrote in the design notes that he drew heavily upon J.R.R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings (LotR) for inspiration: the ...
Terrible Swift Swords was designed by Richard Berg, with graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen, and was published by SPI in July 1976 in both double "flat-pack" and "soap box" editions. [8] The game immediately rose to #4 on SPI's Top Ten Bestseller list, and stayed in the Top Ten for the next eight months. [9] Sales of the game reached 30,000 ...
The Sword and The Flame. The Sword and The Flame is a wargame based on British colonial wars (in particular, the Anglo-Zulu War) and, more generally, a set of rules applied to a variety of wargames. These rules for playing colonial wargames were first drafted by Larry Brom in 1978. The rules have gone through several revisions, but still have ...
Swords & Sorcery is a fantasy game that includes both a traditional wargame called the Army game, as well as a Quest game involving individual characters. [1] Both use a hex grid map and combat rules usually associated with military-themed wargames. The map's geographical locations are light-hearted puns such as Evelyn Woods, and the Stream of ...