Hyperborea

From Robert E. Howard's Conan Novels
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Hyboria is the setting for Robert E. Howard’s Conan novels. The stories revolve around the struggles of the men in the various nations around this world with most of the action centred on the Hyborian kingdoms. 

 

In these nations you can see echoes of our own world and it provides the perfect backdrop for an ancients campaign as it did in those seminal years for wargaming of the 1970s as Tony Bath, Donald Featherstone, Phil Barker and others fought many battles over this very landscape. Modern ancients wargamers owe a great deal to Tony Bath’s Hyborian Campaign as legend has it the first WRG ancients rules came about because of it.

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Base Type Ord Exp Wgt Str Weapons Pts
Cavalry OO Avg HC 11 LA, SH 30
Light Cavalry SO Avg LC 9 LS, SH 18
Foot CO Avg MI 12 LS, SH 28
Archers SO Avg LI 8 BO 14
Skirmishers SO Avg LI 8 LS, SH 16
Slaves OO Lvy MI 8 SA 20
Witchmen CO Vet HI 14 HW 34
Zombies OO Lvy MI 8 SA (Undead) 20
Ice Bears & Handlers OO Vet LG 14 2H 30
Mammoth Avg BE 9 UD, 2+LS 22
Iceworm Avg BE 7 14
Beastmen OO Vet HI 12 2H 30

  • Officers as Cavalry.  The Hyperborean banner is a hand, palm out, fingers closed, with a field varying dependent on the General but tending to dark colours.

  • Tall, pale-skinned, aloof, powerful magic users.
Allies

Western Free Company (without Shemites)
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