List of Anachronism (game) sets

A list of warriors and promotional cards included in the various releases of the Anachronism moveable card game.

First Release

The first release of the game was in three parts. The first part was a free demo consisting of the warriors Miyamoto Musashi, Beowulf, their support cards, and a playmat in the April 2005 issue of InQuest Gamer. The second was a starter set featuring the warriors Spartacus, Achilles, their support cards, dice, and a playmat. The final portion was 16 warrior packs. Each warrior pack consists of one warrior card and their four specific support cards.

Cultures

Ancient Greeks
*Achilles
*Alexander the Great
*Herakles
*Leonidas
*Milo of Croton

Feudal Japanese
*Miyamoto Musashi
*Nakano Takeko
*Ninja
*Oda Nobunaga
*Saito Musashibo Benkei

Norse
*Beowulf
*Canute the Great
*Freydís Eiríksdóttir
*Grettir the Strong
*Harald Hardrada

Romans
* Amazonia
* Julius Caesar
* Marcus Claudius Marcellus
* Maximinus
* Spartacus

Promotional Cards

Promotional cards based on the first set have been released. The promos include alternate versions of existing warriors and new inspirations.

The promotional cards of Set 1 are:
*Alexander III of Macedon
*Leonidas I of Sparta
*Bushido
*Nobunaga
*Shinmen Takezo
*Canute I of Denmark
*Geat King Beowulf
*Gaius Julius
*Mars
*Spartacus of Thrace

et 2

Set 2 was released in June 2005. It consists of the Britons, Chinese, Egyptians and Mongols. The Promotional Pack associated with this set includes Robin Hood and Yue Fei. The starter set for the 2nd release pits Ramses II against Genghis Khan.

Cultures

Britons
*Alfred the Great
*Boudicca
*King Arthur
*Richard the Lionheart
*Robin Hood

Chinese
*Guan Yu
*Hua Mulan
*Jie the Tyrant
*Sun Tzu
*Yue Fei

Egyptians
*Cleopatra VII
*Horemheb the Restorer
*Ramses II
*Seti I
*Srqt the Scorpion King

Mongols
*Attila the Hun
*Genghis Khan
*Khutulun
*Kublai Khan
*Subedei

et 3

The 3rd Set was released on September the 15th, 2005. The 3rd set features the Scottish, Germanic, Native Americans and French cultures. The 2-player starter set for set 3 features Joan of Arc and William Wallace. The German folk hero Siegfried and Makataimeshekiakiak (Black Hawk), the Native American warrior, were the mail in promotional warrior packs for this set, available through a UPC mail-in similar to the Robin Hood/Yue Fei one done for Set 2.

Cultures

The names listed are those which appear on the cards, common Anglicized names follow them in parentheses:

Scots
*Calum III (Malcolm III)
*Raibeart Brus (Robert the Bruce)
*Rob Ruadh MacGriogair (Robert Roy MacGregor)
*Sgàthach an Eilein Sgiathanaich (Scathach of Skye)
*Ullium Uallace (William Wallace)

Germanic Tribes
*Alarich
*Arminius
*Fredegunde
*Siegfried
*Theoderich Der Grosse (Theodoric the Great)

French
*Charlemagne
*Charles Martel
*Roland Le Paladin (Roland the Paladin)
*Sainte Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of Arc)
*Vercingetorix

Native Americans
*Maĥpíya Lúta (Red Cloud)
*Makataimeshekiakiak (Black Hawk)
*Tecumtha (Tecumseh)
*Tĥašúŋka Witkó (Crazy Horse)
*Tĥatĥáŋka ĺyotake (Sitting Bull)

(Note: The names of the Native American Warriors appear to be printed in Americanist phonetic notation. This list uses an h marked with a circumflex to represent an h with a caron.)

Promotional Cards

A second batch of promotional cards for tournament players was released for Set 3. This set of promos added additional new warriors and support cards to existing cultures rather than adding alternate versions of existing warriors. The Set 3 promotional cards are:
*Hattori Hanzo
*Herakles of Thebes
*Naegling
*Clotho
*Lakesis
*Atropos
*Seth
*Chan Zhang
*Stone of Destiny
*Batu Khan

et 4

Set 4 was released in late November, 2005. It features warriors from the Māori Islands, Russia, Ireland, and Persia. The starter set features Irish King Brian Boru vs. the Russian Tsar Peter the Great. The mail-in promotional warriors for this set are the Māori Maui Tiki-tiki, and the Persian Darius the Great. The mail-in offer began on December 1st, 2005, and ended March 10th, 2006. Starting with this set, the number of UPCs required to be mailed in has been increased from 3 to 4 per warrior, but the shipping and handling cost of $1.99 US remained the same.

Cultures

Māori
*Ariki Te Wherowhero
*Hatupatu
*Kupe
*Maui Tiki-tiki
*Te Raupraha

Persian
*Apranik
*Cyrus the Great
*Darius the Great
*Mithridates VI
*Shapur I

Russian
*Catherine the Great
*Ivan the Terrible
*Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky
*Peter the Great
*Saint Alexander Nevsky

Irish
*Benrig Medb
*Brian Boru
*Cu Chulainn
*Donal McCarthaigh Mor
*Finn MacCumhaill

Promotional Cards

The Set 4 tournament promos added additional new warriors and support cards to existing cultures rather than adding alternate versions of existing warriors. With the addition of the first promotional Armor card, a player could theoretically make an all-promo deck. The Set 4 promotional cards are:
*A'Phìob Mòr
*D'Artagnan
*Allt A'Bhonnaich
*Šspw
*Donor-Eiche
*Rapière
*San Jie Gun
*Völkerwanderung
*Wakíηyaη
*Tĥahé Huhúwanap'iη

et 5

Set 5 was released during the last week of February, 2006. It features the Aztecs, the Spanish, the Saracens, and a revisiting of the Japanese. The starter set for Set 5 features Moctezuma II vs. Hernán Cortés. The promotional warriors for Set 5 are Sanada Nobushige and Tariq ibn Ziyad. They are obtainable via a mail-in offer like that of Sets 2, 3, and 4.

Cultures

Aztec
*Auítzotl
*Cuitláhuac
*Itzcóatl
*Moctezuma II
*Tlacaelel

Japanese
*Hijikata Toshizo
*Minamoto no Yoshitsune
*Sanada Nobushige
*Takeda Shingen
*Uesugi Kenshin

Saracen
*Amr ibn al-A'as
*Harun al-Rashid
*Maowvia
*Salah ah-Din
*Tariq ibn Ziyad

Spanish
*Charles V
*El Cid Campeador
*El Gran Capitán
*Hernán Cortés
*Isabella I of Castile

Promotional Cards

The Set 5 tournament promos continued in the pattern of Set 3 and 4, adding new warriors and support cards to existing cultures rather than adding alternate versions of existing warriors. The Set 5 promotional cards are:
*Sí an Bhrú
*Cláirseach Bhorú
*Hawaiki
*Pou Whenua
*Ostovany Khourosh
*Sagaris
*Rasputin
*Baba Yaga
*Godfrey of Bouillon
*Gaiseric

et 6

Set 6 was released on August 24, 2006. It features Romanians, the Turks, a revisit of the Chinese, as well as Pirates. This last culture features warriors from existing cultures, but also with the "Pirate" designation. Set 6 was also the first set to feature the "rival" designation. Though becoming a rival does nothing in and of itself, certain cards key off your warrior having a rival. The starter set for Set 6 features Vlad Tepes Dracula vs. Beyazid I the Thunderbolt. The promotional warriors for Set 6 are Zhang Jiao and Blackbeard, and are obtainable via a mail-in offer like that of Sets 2 through 5.

Cultures

Chinese
*Cáo Cāo
*Lü Bu
*Ma Chao
*Zhang Fei
*Zhang Jiao

Pirates
*Anne Bonny
*Black Bart
*Gráinne Ní Mháille (Grace O'Malley)
*Sir Francis Drake
*Blackbeard

Romanians
*Burebista
*Michael the Brave
*Mircea the Old
*Stephen the Great
*Vlad Tepes Dracula

Turkish
*Mehmed II the Conqueror
*Murad IV the Cruel
*Selim I the Brave
*Suleiman I the Magnificent
*Beyazid I the Thunderbolt

Promotional Cards

In the months leading up to October 2006, tournament promos began to be recycled. The first new post-convention promos came out with the October prize packs. The Set 6 promotional cards are:
*Liu Bei
*Saif
*Jihad
*Cuauhxicalli
*Templo Mayor
*Reconquista
*Tomás de Torquemada
*Xerxes I
*Kamikaze
*Kremlin

et 7

Set 7's released announced the arrival of Frontier Americans, Tribes of Israel, Trojans, and a revisit of the Greeks. This set was released during the 2006 Thanksgiving holiday season, with its starter featuring Theseus vs. Priam. The UPC mail-in warriors were James Beckwourth and Barak.

Cultures

American Frontiersmen
*Jim Bowie
*Jim Bridger
*James Beckwourth
*Daniel Boone
*Hugh Glass

Greek
*Agamemnon
*Odysseus
*Ajax
*Theseus
*Menelaos

Tribes of Israel
*David
*Barak
*Judah Maccabee
*Joshua
*Samson

Trojans
*Aeneas
*Brutus
*Hector
*Priam
*Paris

Promotional Cards

The first Set 7 promotional card, Isla Tortuga, showed up in February 2007. The Set 7 promos are as follows:
*Confucius
*Lao Tzu
*Unicornio Cuerno
*Queen Anne's Revenge
*Isla Tortuga
*Kilij
*İstanbul
*Vlad II Dracul
*Ordin de Balaur
*Yggdrasil

et 8

Due to numerous circumstances, Set 8 will not be officially printed by TriKing Games. Since all of the card text was already written at the time of this decision, the text has been posted on the Anachronism forums; printouts of the card text are allowed for tournament play. Set 8 includes two new cultures, African Kingdoms and Carthaginians, and revisits of the Britons and Romans.

Cultures

African Kingdoms
*Aeizanas of Axum
*Dahiyah al-Kahina
*Kedeke Amanirenas
*Memnon
*Shaka Zulu

Britons
*Ethelfleda
*King Edward
*Henry V
*Uther Pendragon
*William the Conqueror

Carthaginians
*Hamilcar Barca
*Hannibal Barca
*Hasdrubal
*Himilco
*Xanthippus Romans
*Achillea
*Fabius Maximus
*Gnaeus Pompeius Maximus (Pompey)
*Horatius Cocles
*Publius Scipio Africanus

Promotional Cards

Since this set was never printed, neither were the promotional cards associated with it. However, like the rest of Set 8, said cards had their text finalized. These cards are being released similar to traditional tournament prizes, though proxy printouts stand in for actual cardstock. Cards released so far include:
*Old Glory
*Stonehenge
*Hera
*Urim and Thummim
*Gideon
*Lycurgus
*The River Styx
*Catalina de Erauso
*Rostam
*Bec de Corbin
*Quauhololli
*Shamshir

et 9

Set 9 saw two new cultures, the Koreans and the much-delayed Italians, alongside two more revisits, the Norse and Pirates. Much like Set 8, this set was released as semi-finished card text. The Players' Committee worked to finalize the text, and create proxies to print out. Though never published, these cards will be legal for official events.

Cultures

Italians
*Caterina Sforza
*Cesare Borgia
*Erasmo da Narni
*Federico da Montefeltro
*Giovanni dalle Bande Nere

Koreans
*Chi-Woo the Great
*Kim Yun-hu
*Taejo of Joseon
*Yeon Gaesomun
*Yi Sun-sin

Norse
*Brunhild
*Erik the Red
*Eric Bloodaxe
*Sigurd I Magnusson
*Sweyn I Forkbeard

Pirates
*Barbarossa
*Cheng I Sao
*Jeanne de Clisson
*Sir Henry Morgan
*William Kidd