Sword Lords is a 1981 fantasy battle board game published by Archive Miniatures and Game Systems. It lets two or more players either run one of its pre-designed battle scenarios or design and fight their own custom engagements using the game's system for building armies and terrain. Reviewing it for The Space Gamer in December 1981, W. G. Armintrout called the underlying idea entertaining and praised the physical components as wonderful, but said he could not recommend the edition as shipped because of problems with the rulebook, despite the otherwise polished production. The game sits among the wave of independently published tabletop fantasy battle systems that appeared in the early 1980s alongside the miniatures hobby's growth.
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Playing Time PublisherArchive Miniatures & Game Systems 3 Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Board Game Matcher: Sword Lords
2. Sword Lords (Wikipedia)
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a 1981 board game
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Sword Lords is a game in which players can run any of the several fantasy battles provided, or design their own battles.
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- Playing Time: 120
- Designer: Keith Elliott
- Designer: Michael Becker (I)
- Designer: Wilfredo Aguilar
- Publisher: Archive Miniatures & Game Systems
- Game Category: Fantasy
- Game Category: Miniatures
- Game Category: Wargame
- Game Mechanic: Dice Rolling
- Game Mechanic: Hexagon Grid
- Minimum Players: 1
- Maximum Players: 5
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