This week we finally kicked off the first of our Fall Song
of Blades and Heroes Campaigns (using the campaign system from Song
of Deeds and Glory). The plan is to run a short campaign through
September – for everyone to learn the campaign system and get some sense of
what works good in a campaign warband – and then run a longer campaign through
October, November, and December. (Also I figured it’d give them a month to
source out their OWN figures for the second campaign!)
FORCES
Amanda’s Amazons
Lasthena – Amazon Infantry
Leader
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 70 Points
Leader
Kyra – Amazon Warrior
Quality 3+, Combat 3, Points 30
Herophile – Amazon Warrior
Quality 3+, Combat 3, Points 30
Niobe – Amazon Warrior
Quality 3+, Combat 3, Points 30
Eurycleia – Elite Amazon Archer
Quality 3+, Combat 3, 50 Points
Shooter (Long), Unerring Aim
Polydora – Elite Amazon Archer
Quality 3+, Combat 3, 50 Points
Shooter (Long), Unerring Aim
Cybele – Amazon Light Infantry
Quality 3+, Combat 2, 28 Points
Shooter Medium
288 points
12 gold
Curly’s Crusaders (Rick’s
Warband)
Curly – Dwaf Commander
Quality 2+, Combat 4, 95 Points
Leader, Fearless
Dwarf Warrior #1
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 34 Points
Dwarf Warrior #2
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 34 Points
Dwarf Warrior #3
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 34 Points
Dwarf Warrior #4
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 34 Points
Dwarf Warrior #5
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 34 Points
Dwarf Warrior #6
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 34 Points
299 points
1 gold
Champions of Lagozed (The Boy’s
Warband)
Garthoth – Lizardman Champion
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 82 Points
Amphibious, Tailslap, Tough
Lizardman Warrior #1
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 52 Points
Amphibious, Tailslap
Lizardman Warrior #2
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 52 Points
Amphibious, Tailslap
Lizardman Warrior #3
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 52 Points
Amphibious, Tailslap
Lizardman Warrior #4
Quality 3+, Combat 4, 52 Points
Amphibious, Tailslap
290 points
10 gold
Elysthyth’s Wander’s (The Girl’s
Warband)
Elysthyth – Elf Wizard
Quality 2+, Combat 2, 70 Points
Magic-user, Forester
Elf Elite Archer
Quality 2+, Combat 3, 70 Points
Shooter (Long), Unerring Aim,
Good Shot
Elf Elite Archer
Quality 2+, Combat 3, 70 Points
Shooter (Long), Unerring Aim,
Good Shot
Elf Warrior
Quality 2+, Combat 2, 38 Points
Elf Sneak
Quality 2+, Combat 2, 53 Points
Stealth, Forester
301 points
0 gold
ROUND ONE
For this round we determined
Elysthyth’s Wander’s would battle against Curly’s Crusaders and the Champions
of Lagozed would battle against Amanda’s Amazons
GAME ONE
Elysthyth’s Wander’s was defending against Curly’s
Crusaders. The Girl picked out the “Clearing in the Woods” Game Board and they
rolled “Accidental Meeting” for a scenario.
Dwarves and Elves scattered
about the woods in an Accidental Meeting engagement.
We’ve not played this scenario
before. Each takes turns deploying the other players models such that none are
within One Long of another figure. It was quite fun. It would such to play with
a warband of goblins or something with mostly Q4+… you’d never get then all
together…
This elf as a bit surrounded…
The Girl was a bit overwhelmed as to what to do and briefly considered
conceding before they even started!? WE encouraged her to try it out a couple
turns and I ended up giving an awful lot of advice…
With their 2+ Quality the elves
very quickly gathered together and started raining arrows down on the
slow-moving dwarves who were desperately avoiding the woods. (Woods are for
cutting down and making axe-handles!)
At the other end of the table
Curly gathered up a few of his warriors and charged into the middle of the
clearing. Curly (seeing he could make it to the wizard and wanted to show off
to his pals) made the mistake of charging ahead of his mates… He managed to
knock the wizard down, but in the Elves next turn he was surrounded, and cut
down. The loss of their leader unsettled a few of his compatriots who fled.
Another Dwarf was killed in a gruesome fashion (arrow through the neck) that
caused more to flee, which brought the numbers on the table lower than those
that had left and antoehr morale test carried off all bu one of the Dwarves…
The last dwarf standing.
Checking afterwards Curly
managed to survive without a scratch. Apparently when the rest of the Dwarves
thought he’d been killed, it turns out the elves had simple pinned him down,
bound and gagged him. He was later found still bound and gagged (and naked)
wanding out of the woods with a fresh tattoo on his but that read something
like “Elves Kick Ass”.
The Other Dwarf was well and
truly dead.
Elysthyth’s Wander’s netted 13
victory points, one campaign point, and 30 gold for this adventure. Rolling on
the exploration temple the Elves discovered a Temple of Evil – which they
declined to sack (due to the one in six chance of incurring the wrath of the
evil deities!).
Curly’s Crusaders gained no
victory points or campaign points, but did collect 20 gold and found an
abandoned keg of ale in their explorations. Not enough to Hire a replacemtn for
their lost warrior, so they’ll be down a bit for the next game.
GAME TWO
Next The Boy’s Champions of
Lagozed battled Amanda’s Amazons. The Amazon’s defended a mountain pass and
rolled “On Dangerous Ground” for a scenario.
Somehow I only managed to take
one picture of this entire game…. This is just at the start of the Lizards’
second turn. the Lizardman warrior in contact with the Amazon light infantry is
about to take her down… The only casualty the Amazons suffered in this game.
The first success for the
Amazons was to take Garathoth down an notch – being tough, his first wound only
reduced his quality – but it was enough that when they outnumbered and
Gruesomely Killed one of the other lizardman warriors he fled the field!
Another Lizardman warrior was felled before the rest fled.
After the battle Amanda
collected 11 victory points, a campaign point and 60 gold! Her injured slinger
was seriously injured and will miss the next game. In their explorations the
Amazons discovered a Haunted Wood… lacking a necromancer, no ghouls joined
their warband…
The Champions of Lagozed
collected 1 victory point and 20 gold. The came across a roadside shrine to Lagozed
and made an offering, but Lagozed did not show them favour… The injured
Lizardman was moderately wounded and will suffer a reduction in quality for the
next game. Like the Dwarves, they were not able to aquire enough gold to
replace the lost warrior (the one that suffered a gruesome kill) and will be
down one on their next game.
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
I have a few Greeks I’ve been working on that hopefully I’ll
finish up this week. other than that, there will be a report of next week’s
games one week from today (hopefully a few others might be able to make it
out).
Good on the elves!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I said this before, but excellent job on the owl shield for the amazons!
I playes my first game using this rules engine recently. Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying out a few of them this year and haven't been too disappointed! Just picked up the Samurai Robot Battle Royalle and going to have a go with some old 'mechs sometime soon.
DeleteGreat looking figures and scenery. I can only imagine how much fun it was. :)
ReplyDeleteFun enough that I forgot to take more pictures!
DeleteInspiring. I'll try to start a campaign of my own with the kids soon.
ReplyDeleteMy kids really love the campaign - getting to have guys that gain experience and can improve and stuff. But they also get very anxious about losing them in battle!!
DeleteGreat looking game, and beautiful Amazons!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil! I have enough of them to build an army for Hordes of the Things... but I keep feeling like just basing them individually and adding to this skirmish force!
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