We here at Sword & Board Games have spent a very long time working on the next expansion of TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine. We've achieved what we hope to be our new standard of production quality and visual presentation going forward. TUSC: Mechanized Warfare will be coming early 2026.

We here at Sword & Board Games would like to remind you: 1) Yes! We do still exist! 2) Our next major release is going to be coming very soon! 3) 2026 is going to be a very busy year for our company. 4) We are in your walls.

Despite rumors to the contrary, we would like to remind everyone that the working conditions here at Sword & Board Games are perfectly humane according to games industry standards and the writer's room is only locked from the outside for Serena's own protection.

The 1.1 update for TUSC: Medieval Warfare is now available. It's a highly extensive update that adds new content to the expansion. Its the most expansive update TUSC has ever received. Download it from from the following links: swordnboard.itch.io/tusc-medieva... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

The 1.1 update for TUSC: Medieval Warfare is now available. It's a highly extensive update that adds new content to the expansion. Its the most expansive update TUSC has ever received. Download it from from the following links: swordnboard.itch.io/tusc-medieva... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

For transparency, none of our titles got deindexed or delisted from Itchio as far as I can tell. However, as a predominantly queer-operated and queer-owned game studio we're collectively quite shaken in our trust in Itch as a platform and are currently investigating pathways forward.

[Wakes up, bleary-eyed, confused, dehydrated] Man, we picked the *worst* possible time to do this, huh?

WERE OFFICIALLY ITCHY!!! CHECK US OUT ON ITCH.IO

We here at Sword & Board Games have a very special announcement: We launched an Itchio page that you can check out from this link. There's also a few cool things going on with this Itchio page that we would like to share! swordnboard.itch.io

The Akshenim are a proud, ancient people, whose history stretches back tens of millions of years. They are physical manifestations of the magic which flows throughout all existence, wandering the stars in search of the Artifacts of Ruin aboard their arcanotek colony ships known as Dragon-Arks.

During the Tetrarchy's Era of Unification, the Haagenti were the alchemically and cybernetically augmented shocktroops who formed the spearhead of the Army of Unification. Only operating alongside baseline soldiers in the most desperate of campaigns, they formed a highly insular and elitist mindset.

It's Pride Month and our founder just used their share of last month's royalties to pay for their estrogen. If you've bought one of our games, know it's going to a good cause.

During the Tetrarchy's Era of Unification, the Haagenti were the alchemically and cybernetically augmented shocktroops who formed the spearhead of the Army of Unification. Only operating alongside baseline soldiers in the most desperate of campaigns, they formed a highly insular and elitist mindset.

The Akshenim are a proud, ancient people, whose history stretches back tens of millions of years. They are physical manifestations of the magic which flows throughout all existence, wandering the stars in search of the Artifacts of Ruin aboard their arcanotek colony ships known as Dragon-Arks.

exciting times at the @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social group chat

An example warband created with a 1k points limit, featuring the titanic dragon Valathrax the Incorruptible, and his retinue of human, elven, and dwarven followers. This warband is going to feature in an upcoming Battle Report showcasing the rules for the Medieval Warfare expansion.

We already know what the next expansion for the TUSC Engine is gonna be, btw! I won't confirm anything yet but work has already begun on the actual mechanics of the expansion!

EVERYONE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! THE EXPANSION IS OUT!!!!! TUSC's first expansion, Medieval Warfare, is now available for purchase from the link below: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

EVERYONE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! THE EXPANSION IS OUT!!!!! TUSC's first expansion, Medieval Warfare, is now available for purchase from the link below: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Bit of an addendum, the game is being delayed to be released the first week of April. Our DriveThruRPG publisher account remains 'unverified' because we've yet to publish enough materials to become verified, which means we need to wait to get personally verified by DTR's Publisher Relations team.

We here at Sword & Board Games are happy to announce that our first game is receiving it's first expansion, TUSC: Medieval Warfare. This supplement book adds an expanded roster of historical arms and armor, an expanded spell list, and rules for fielding truly titanic monsters like dragons.

We've been dormant for a while. We can say with some certainty, we've been quiet because we've been making a few really cool things that we'll be very happy to share with you in the coming weeks.

TUSC's gotten a fancy new logo drawn by our team's excellent art director, Zack Viola. @zackonline.bsky.social

The Anvil Pattern Main Battle Tank is what's known as a Tomb Engine, a gargantuan vehicle kept in the armor columns of a Household's Haagenti Legion piloted not by a living crew, but by the quarter-living carcass of an undead Haagenti warrior.

The 1.1 update of the TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine rulebook has been released, which contains a small number of changes mostly geared toward further polishing the game and fixing known issues. Full patch notes below:

The primary weapon of the Haagenti legions is the Radgun, a devastating anti-infantry weapon designed to agonizingly melt soft targets in a cone in front of the legionnaire with radioactive waves. Often deployed to brutally put down seditious demonstrations, a practice known as crowd clearance.

We'd like to hear from people who've played games of TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine. What did you think of the game? If you haven't, what are your impressions from reading the rulebook? We're interested to hear what our players think of the game in its current state.

WE'VE SOLD OVER 50 COPIES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

We'd like to hear from people who've played games of TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine. What did you think of the game? If you haven't, what are your impressions from reading the rulebook? We're interested to hear what our players think of the game in its current state.

The true strength of the Tetrarchy is in its legions of Haagenti terror troops. Prisoners, street scum, or those who exemplify a shocking eagerness to commit violence find themselves turned into hulking cybernetic monsters unleashed on human population centers to make an example of the rebellious.

Sword & Board Games' resident artist, @zackonline.bsky.social, has been deep in the concept art mines for our next game. We present: some guns and some goons.

We've had a HUGE influx of players after our game made a cameo appearance in the most recent episode of @snipethesorrow.bsky.social & @wib.bsky.social's Codex Compliant series, we wanted to give a huge thank you to them for telling their fans about our game. We could not be more thankful.

Sword & Board Games' resident artist, @zackonline.bsky.social, has been deep in the concept art mines for our next game. We present: some guns and some goons.

TUSC started development in 2022 as a solo project by Sword & Board Games' lead games designer. SJ Klapecki was brought onto the project in early 2024 once Sam Keshetovah began contemplating the idea of creating a sci-fi setting to attach TUSC to. Ultimately TUSC kept its setting agnosticism.

Fun fact, before TUSC had the to-hit system it has today, you used to determine the to-hit value of an attack by comparing the weapon's strength to the opponent's toughness. The system was based off of Warcry and I liked it because it was simpler, but when we decided late into development to add...

We're already deep in development of TUSC's first expansion. We're all really pleased to have heard literally nothing but good things about the game since it came out, and we're really excited to create and release expansion content for the game to give people even more options!

HEY HELP US SELL ONE TUSCILLION COPIES www.wargamevault.com/product/5004...

The game's not been out a full week and it's already sold 12 copies. We're predicted to sell one tuscillion copies by the end of 2024.

With TUSC's recent release, I'm sure you're wondering how the game plays. Well, @sallywargaming.bsky.social, our lead games designer and @sjklapecki.bsky.social, our head writer, recorded a battle report some time ago using a pre-release build of the game. Check it out! youtu.be/ESbZsJMbvwA

I AM NO LONGER ASKING BUY MY SKIRMISH GAME YOU CAN USE LITERALLY ANY MODEL YOU WANT FROM ANY SYSTEM TO MAKE ANYTHING AND HAVE THEM F I G H T

TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Game is now available for purchase through Wargame Vault and DriveThruRPG. For only 10 dollars, you get a 70 page PDF rulebook (with Extra Fancy and Printer Friendly editions) that gives you rules for creating stat lines for any infantry miniatures you may have!

IT HAS ARRIVED YOU CAN OFFICIALLY BUY SWORD & BOARD GAMES' DEBUT TITLE, TUSC: THE UNIVERSAL SKIRMISH COMBAT ENGINE, FROM THE LINKS BELOW: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... www.wargamevault.com/product/5004...

TUSC is currently pending approval on DriveThruRPG and Wargame Vault, and will hopefully be available for purchase either later today or tomorrow!

the latest batch of Patreon member head sketches! New patrons get a complimentary head sketch as part of their sign-on as a thank-you for your support!!

We here at Sword & Board Games are already deep in the process of developing our next game, and as part of that our lead artist @zackonline.bsky.social has done a lot of sketches for various project ideas. With that being said I would like to highlight this sketch of a man whomst face is also a gun.

You can check out how TUSC plays to see if it's the kind of game that would interest you by watching this battle report between @sallywargaming.bsky.social's Genehanced Warriors and @sjklapecki.bsky.social's Cyberanarks! youtu.be/ESbZsJMbvwA

TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine is the debut title of the independent tabletop games studio Sword and Board Games. It is a setting and model agnostic skirmish system designed to allow you to generate rules for and field any set of tabletop miniatures you may own!

Hey everyone i helped make this check it out!!

In TUSC, much like in real life, sometimes you're the 9 foot tall super soldier with a flaming sword and sometimes you're the peasant with a spear he's death glaring. #TabletopGaming #miniatures #wargame #indiedev

Sword & Board Games' first title, TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine, will be releasing on Drive-Thru RPG and Wargame Vault on October 29th. That's six days away! If you want to play a skirmish wargame with ANY models you may want, follow this account for news and updates on the game!