New Song of Blades and Heroes Campaign

Wow… September hit like a… like a… something that… um… well, it’s been very busy. I’ve hardly even painted anything in the last two weeks. (I did however finish building the first – of SIX – bookshelves I need to build this fall).

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).