By Fire and Sword

[Serotonin]

Happened to watch the film at the weekend and found it quite enjoybale in a bit of a slapstick way. Not sure it will entice me into getting the book though 

The novel is pretty good so far. Its taken me a while to get my head around the names of people and places- not being familiar with Polish or the geography of the area has made it tricky, sometimes i have to really concentrate to work out if the name they used was referring to a place or person, which is hard for me as I am a notorious skim reader. The language of the translation is a little flowery at times, but so far its been pretty exciting- a real tale of romance, derring do, honour and politics. If you have a kindle its free on the kindle store.
Its also got one of the coolest/weirdest charatcers Ive read in a while- a noble who has made a vow of chastity until he, like his grandfather before him, is able to behead 3 enemies at once in one swipe of his longsword. He spends early part of the novel surrounded by a bevy of lovelies in the princes court, crossing his legs and thinking about Thatcher, pleading with everyone to take him in to their regiment. Made me chuckle. 

[nikharwood]

Thanks for the info (on both counts...nice book download sat ready to read...)

I'm definitely getting this then - nothing like a bit of porn 

[OldenBUA]

Serotonin, thanks for the info. For now I think I'll start with the PDF rulebook. All the kickstarter options with the full rulebook include figures and also quite hefty shipping charges. My guess is that I'm better of getting the rulebook the next time I'm in Poland. And for figures, I might have other options too. 

And yes, I have seen the film a couple of times (I have it on the hard-disk recorder somewhere), but in Ukrainian, with no subtitles.  So, much is lost, but I can get the gist, and my wife can translate as well (she likes it quite a bit). And it helps that I'm somewhat familiar with the period and area. Haven't read the book, but might give it a try. 

[Ferb]

Northstar is going to be stocking the rulebook, he thinks it will cost about £30 and he thinks it will be available about the end of May.

[Serotonin]

Yeah Northstar already stock the minis so I expect the rules will be available from them. Postage on the Kickstarter is high but to be fair, the book alone weighs in more than 2kg!

[OldenBUA]

So, how many of you did buy a rulebook at Salute?

Rafal Olszewski from Wargamer.pl on May 23
We had only 150 copies of initial print. About 20 were distributed among authors, play testers and backers. 130 were sold on Salute. I expect that you will have quite nice gaming community. Regards Konrad

[GordonY]

"the book alone weighs in more than 2kg!"

Whoa!!! Nice, that way if yer dont win, you can always use it to bludgeon your opponent to death with.

Who said big rulesets were rubbish?

[Serotonin]

So, how many of you did buy a rulebook at Salute?

Me, and by my reckoning I was possibly the first buyer- first stall I got to, and left £100 lighter. 

[Steve J]

£100 lighter.

I hope that included the figures?

[Hertsblue]

Me, and by my reckoning I was possibly the first buyer- first stall I got to, and left £100 lighter. 

You shouldn't carry such a valuable lighter. 

[Steve J]

Oh dear me ...

[Serotonin]

I hope that included the figures?

Hahah yes 

Got a Polish starter pack and a Cossack starter pack, plus some command counters and the book. Almost finished the Cossack pack, lovely figures, although in the wrong scale clearly!

[nikharwood]

Well, North Star have it now: http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=5492

£38.50 + postage though...hmm...this one might need to wait a while 

[Nosher]

Well, North Star have it now: http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=5492

£38.50 + postage though...hmm...this one might need to wait a while 

Yup.

Definately put me off that price tag

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

Looks like the $5 Kickstarter pdf version was a bargain then. Will have to sit down and go through it. First impressions were a very DB* style of game, but only skimmed through it up till now. Main issue for me is no index or QRS. Will have to look around the forums to see what's around.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan