What's damned convenient is that your review popped up literally minuts before I was going to hit the website and order a copy of this game.....now I think I'll wait for another couple reviews to show up on rpg.net before I test the waters
The main reason I even knew this game existed was Ken Hite mentioning it in his Out of the Box column, where it sounded like a quasi-historical Runequest riff. Then the last review posted here left me thinking it might be kind of neat to investigate.
But your review left me with an odd impression that it was no Runequest so much as Chivalry and Sorcery that the game might bear some resemblance to.....