So, my players are heading to the Sword Worlds in the year 1100, and I figured I'd look into canonical information on the Sword Worlds Confederate Navy just prior to the Fifth Frontier War. From the GDW Fifth Frontier War board game, we get three Admirals in the SWC roster; in order of precedence, they're:
I'd like to know if anyone else has used any of these characters in their campaigns, and ask if you wouldn't mind sharing the salient details as I craft them for my own campaign.
- Riksdatter
- Eyolfsson
- Tryggvesson
The 2 fleets he refers to are the Gram and Joyeuse Fleets; Hemdian adds the Sacnoth and Narsil Fleets. The most recent Mongoose Sword Worlds book has those four, and adds the Tizon, Dyrnwyn, Sting, and Biter Fleets, which feels like too many; the 3I has only six (seven?) fleets in the Spinward Marches at the start of the 5FW, and they've got a much larger population and resources to draw from.I used a vaguely similar idea in an old campaign but set in the Sword Worlds. It resulted in a civil war in the SW at the height of the 5FW and led to the formation of the Border Worlds.
In analysing the FFW boardgame counters (not the best source according to some) I figured there were 4 SW fleets but only 2 are accounted for in the game. A third, based at Narsil, fought against the Darrians. A fourth, based at Sacnoth, was supposed to defend the SW rear from the Imperial fleet at Glisten ... but instead the governing houses of Sacnoth opened negotiations with the Imperials which resulted in significantly disrupting the flow of key supplies to Admirals Riksdatter and Eyolfsson during their adventurism in the Lanth and Vilis subsectors. The battle at Sting between elements of the Sacnoth fleet and the Imperial fleet was a set up to purge elements loyal to the old guard.
The PCs were members of the 'odd job squad' in the Glisten fleet until they were shot down over Mithril. So most of the politics was a backdrop to what they were doing until a late-joining PC turned up playing a Major in the SZK (Sacnoth Army) who was also a minor SW noble on a diplomatic mission.
(This campaign was a long time ago when the only source of info on the SW was an old JTAS article.)
I'd like to know if anyone else has used any of these characters in their campaigns, and ask if you wouldn't mind sharing the salient details as I craft them for my own campaign.