Will they ever learn...!?
Well, we had our day of funs
(it was more of a late afternoon and evening of funs after having to run downtown to the library and then out to get some groceries)…
The kids and I did some
assembling and painting of miniatures – The Boy beginning to assemble the
figures he’s using for his Song
of Shadows and Dust faction (Wargames Factory
Numidians) - and we all took turns reading chapters out of Thieves
of Ostia (to get them stoked about the World of Rome).
The Girl and I did get out and
do some flatlanding…
Then after supper we finally got around to getting in another
game. WE played Song
of Blades and Heroes again, but the kids switched up their armies a
bit – but still used their own figures! This time we actually rolled for a
random scenario out of Song
of Deeds and Glory.
SITUATION
The Orcs have discovered a place
sacred to the Elves of the Great Woods. The Orcs figure it would be fun to put
a latrine there…
SCENARIO
The Elves ended up defending and
The Girl chose the Clearing in the Woods terrain board to defend on.
We ended up playing the Place of Power Scenario out of Song
of Blades and Heroes (pg. 46). There was a Place of Power (the middle
of the clearing in the center of the board) that gave bonuses to casting spells
– which wasn’t much use as The Girls mage was Q 2+, and the Boy didn’t have any
mages – and also mages couldn’t run out of magic during the game if they were
casting from within that location. Also every Mage in the Place of Power at the
end of the game scorred an additional 3 Victory Points.
FORCES
Gronk’s Revenge
Goblin Commander
Q 4+, C 3, 45 points
Leader
Troll
Q 4+, C 4, 41 points
Tough, Fearless, Big
2x Goblin Elite Archers
Q 4+, C2, 26 points each
Shooter (Medium), Unerring Aim
4x Goblin Warriors
Q 4+, C2, 15 points each
4x Orc Warriors
Q 4+, C3, 23 points each
Elves of the Great Woods
Elf Wizard
Q 2+, C2, 70 points
Magic-user, Forester
2x Elf Warriors
Q 2+, C 3, 38 points
2x Elf Elite Archers
Q 2+, C 3, 70 points
Shooter (Long), Unerring Aim,
Good Shot
2x Young Elf Warriors
Q 3+, C 2, 20 points
THE GAME
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version)
The detachment of Orcs and
Goblins (and Troll!) from Gronk’s Revenge tasked with securing the ground for
Gronk’s new Latrine…
A band of brave Elves determined
to defend their most potent places of power within the woods.
Gronk’s revenge getting off to a
good start… of course for the first two turns they used the Free “non- combat”
Moves to advance towards the clearing in the woods. Thereafter they were
plagued with Command and Control problems. Mostly because The Boy insisted on
rolling three dice all the time for activations – so within the first two
activations, he’d roll a turn-over and the advance ground to a halt at the edge
of the clearing….
It took those Elves three turns
to move up to the edge of the clearing… mostly because one of the Elite Elf
Archers (with Q 2+) decided to roll two ones on the first turn ending their
turn abruptly – another ( I think the Wizard) did the same on the second turn.
I don’t think those Young Warriors at the back got up there until Turn Four or
Five…
Some Goblins finally made it to
the clearing to join the Orcs and Troll that had taken a more direct route –
only to be pin-cushioned by the Elf Elite Archers… Two downed in that one turn
– it didn’t look good for Gronk’s Revenge! Fortunately the Elves Luck didn’t
hold up and there followed a few rounds of ineffective fire at the Orcs and
Goblins standing in the open
Gurk! Downed Goblinses.
The Goblin Leader and Goblin
Elite Archers trying to make their way to the clearing to rendezvous with the
rest of the detachment.
The Boy – commanding the Orcs
and Goblins (and Troll!).
The Girl – commanding the Elves.
The Girl finally got over her
fear or the Troll and came out of the woods – hoping to get a bit closer to the
Troll so she could transfix it with the Wizard and then hopefully shoot it down
with the Archers…
As it turned out it was
completely unnecessary – on The Boy’s next turn he ran one of the Goblin Elite
Archers into the clearing with it’s single action (and two failures… and
turn-over) and then The Girl’s Elite Elf Archer shot it with and aimed shot at
medium range and scored a Gruesome Kill
and the rest of Gronk’s Revenge panicked and ran away… well… the leader
and one other ran away, causing a chain of additional morale tests which
effectively cleared the table of all but two Goblins…
On the plus side… Gronk’s
Revenge suffered only one death – the Gruesomely Killed archer… the other two
casualties were only light wounds and the rest had simply ran away…
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Hopefully we’ll get some more painting in tomorrow and maybe
TWO games…?!
Wonderful looking family and gaming - as well as the bike tricks!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean! Luckily they take after their ma!
DeleteAnother great post, Tim - fun all round ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks Monty!
DeleteI'm enjoying these encounters with orcs (and goblins, and a troll!). Looks like some fun gaming. And cool to see the kids getting to use figures they painted themselves.
ReplyDeleteSo nice to see the next generation getting involved.
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