Circling back to Lord of the Rings for a moment... most of my postulating during my recent Lord of the Rings Distraction was focusing on Dragon Rampant. While I did mention that they could conceivably be used in Song of Blades and Heroes, it wasn't very seriously considered.
This past weekend I was supposed to start running a role-playing campaign with FATE... but Sunday morning one player bailed, another hadn't responded in a week and I tried to find something else me and the remaining player could do... and I suggested Song of Blades and Heroes - thinking I might use a few of the recently rebased Lord of the Rings miniatures...
In a panic I turned to the internet to see if anyone else had come up with stats for characters. While at one point, I would have just made up stats, on the spot for just about anything in Song of Blades and Heroes... it's been YEARS since I've played and while it is a simple enough game to pick up and play, I was no longer feeling confident I could just make them up on the spot!? Luckily I found a blog post from 12 years ago that had all I needed to get started!
Steel City Wargaming - SoBH for LotR Games
Initially I'd thought of running something with Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas... but wasn't sure what to throw them up against? I didn't have a lot of options for foes... I did have a handful of Uruk-hai with pikes (though a few were still on washer bases!) but I'd have to throw in Sarumon to get something close to matching points, and I don't think they ever really faced Sarumon, face-to-face...
Next thought was maybe using Éowyn on foot with some warriors of Rohan... against the same weird mix of Sarumon, and Orc Captain and a handful of Uruk-Hai... then I remember the Witch-King and had a new idea...
Then the final player sent me a note bailing 15 minutes after he was supposed to have arrived!?
Ah, well...
I was already down a rabbithole...
I got thinking about a scenario involving mounted Éomer and a few riders chasing down Uruk-Hai that were wandering about the edge of the Fangorn Forest... and so got to rebasing more of the Uruk-hai - and spent the rest of Sunday doing that!
(well... and re-basing some OTHER stuff as well!)
Uruk-Hai - not quite a Dragon Rampant warband... but plenty to play Song of Blades and Heroes with!
Still lots to do - 50+ to rebase
I also happened to paint up those two Nazgûl from Mithril Miniatures.
Sunday evening, Amanda and I started watching Rings of Power on Amazon Prime... which may or may not provide further distraction inspiration to work on these.
I would like to get in a quick game of Song of Blades and Heroes, this week, using these miniatures. If I don't the moment will pass and they will languish in their drawers for a few more years until I circle back to them again... which would probably be okay, as I have OTHER THINGS to be working on! But, given all the work I've done on these lately, it'd be nice to see them in action and not leave them feeling all that work was for naught!
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