Second Game of Thrones Battle Report

Hello, I had the pleasure to play again with the rules for Tabletop game "Song of Ice and Fire by company  "Cool Mini or Not?" with my own 1/72 figures. I went to my friend Gabi´s place with all the stuff, so we could have a good time. It is REALLY A DINAMIC  BLOODY AND FUNNY GAME!

I came with the idea of playing a small battle 30 pt for each army, but Gabi (who never played a Wargame before, but is very lover of the Boardgames and quite competitive as well ) said 

" I want MORE miniatures on this table." 

So i Said, "What the hell..? Lets play 40 points... even if it is then a bigger challenge, as we are not used to the rules yet!!

He slected the Lannister and took the good time to see all different unit and character options,.. he went for a force with

UNIT OF MOUNTAINS MEN +GREGOR CLEGANE THE MOUNTAIN AS GENERAL (whose tactical cards are  based on smashing and damaging a lot...) 

UNIT OF HALBERDIERS+JAIME LANNISTER

UNIT OF LANNISTER GUARDS+ SANDRO CLEGANE THE HOUND

UNIT OF CROSSBOWMEN+ A VETERAN CAPTAIN

UNIT OF KNIGHTS OF CASTERLY ROCK (SHOCK CAVALRY)

As No Combat Unit he took Tyrion Lannister... he gave his army and advantage of having an additional Tactical Card on hand for all thee game!! Was quite good for him

I took the northmen:

-UNIT OF STARK SWORND SWORDS+ ROBB STARK AS GENERAL (tactical cards based on fast striking, hit and run and so on..)

rob is always accompanied by his dsirewolf GREYWIND

-UNIT OF UMBER BERSERKERS+ GREATJON UMBER

-UNIT OF TULLY SWORND SHIELDS (Foot armoured knights)+ CAPTAIN

-UNIT OF BWOMEN

And NCU with Lady Catelyn Stark

We went fot a battle mode  named "Game of Thrones". (there are five other playing modes , with the names of the different Books of GRR MArtin) .. That  mode means: There is a strategic point in middle of the filed (we placed a Hill) and then 4 further ponts.. Every strategicl positin hold at the end of one roibnd give 1 Victory Point which gets scored. Every destriyed enemy unit make also 1 Victoy Pojnt. First to get 10 VP is the winner.. 

Each  of us selected 2 positions.. We were quite conservative placing our respectivo two  opctions them near our deploy lines .. It was truly  A MISTAKE BY MY SIDE,,, 

Some images of the initial dpeloy and first movements (quite slow as we both forgot the MArch ability in the first round!)

Lannister  Center and Right :

Stark line viewed from the left:

Both lines approcaching... The two cavlaries advanced faster near the hill, But lannister wing was unfefended, which would be exploited but the lighter Stark horsmeen..

The Lannister left went at a slow pace just to keep hold of the ir Strategic positions..They would not move much more and start to collect many VP..

Lannister Knights advanced smoothly to the hill, trying to get the  central Strategic point and charge any enemy in front of them...

But the starks refused (apparently) the fight...

 It is a trap!! Using the right Tactic cards and increasing actions, The Stark Horse charged  unexpectedly from the left to the flank f the knights! Many armored knights were to fall...

As the Stark general, I believed  for a while it would be an easy business ..

The Knights realigned and trying to fight the Stark back, but they kept on suffering more and more losses

Then a false retreat of the stark riders,  and a try for Robb swordmen  to charge in time.. But bad charge results!! A failed charge, panic  and loss on the men, and finnally the attack hitting poorly on the halberdiers who were perfectly prepared for repelling them!!!!  Everything went wrong for Robb .!  Many casualties for very few enemies fallen

The halberdiers hit in turn expertly lead by Ser Jaime, and almost the whole Stark unit disappears !!

The two cavalries kept on fighting; Things were not so bad fot the Starks in the cavalry fight...

The King in the North Stood alone against many enemies.... Had he  any chance to survive..??

.....

YES!!!!! He got a very oportune and useful free retreat action+ troop wound recovery, thanks to new drawed Tactic card of "Tactical Reploy! Robb survived and was able to fall back wth some wounded, brave soldiers who were able to stand up and fight again for him!! 

But the Halberdiers took the Hill in the meanwhile..

On the other battle side, the Stark right /Lannister Left,  everything was quieter.. Lannister did not advance so the Stark went towards them .. But they were slow troops.. advance was slow and  the bowmen were not able to shoot..

Suddenly some Lannister Tactical options were discoverd and The Mountain charged by surpirse with unexpected fury!!! The poor stark bowmen took heavy casualties..

Even altough the heavy Tully knights were finally able to charge the Mountains flank, It was too late for the bowmen... they all were killed or run in panic in just one activation movement!!!  They got converted into 1 VP as a  blood gift for the Mountain...

At least their Tully comrades took some vengance, eliminating one row of the Men at arms of The Mountain

On the hill thing went even hotter!! Tyrion used his influence to help the losing Lannister knights to recover and even inflict some casualties (although  taking also new damage..) , but then the Berserkers launched a fierce attack on the halberdiers!!!

..At the same time the crossbowmen tried to take an advatange position in the stark rear..

The halberdiers at the command of Ser Jaime retreated, trying to have a better defensive position, but their exposed anther flank which was attacked by Greywind who wanted eagerly to take revenge of the Injuries of his master Robb!! More Lannister casualties..

The Stark outriders finished the remaining knights, and they then charged downhill to chase the crossbowmen as an easy prey.. It could be a good chance!!
But dice roll were poor and the veteran captain of the Lannister unit made the light infantrymen fight bravely .. The stark were almost elminiated for just one crossbowman!!

The Berserkers made a last charge on Jaime and the halberdiers, who were again in defensive formation and the berserkers suffered much.. But they have more attacks as they accumulate wounds as they enter in Berserker frenzy!!
10 attack dice, and the help of Greywind to erase definetely Ser Jaime and the so disturbing halberdiers!!!!

During all the time, the Lannister guard with Sandor the Hound did not move.. He was clever enough, to obbey his orders (and not to expose his life!)  Many Victory points were scored by that during the whole game.. That was really a Lannister nasty but useful snake strategy.. .. 

 

At the end... Robb moved desperately to hold one of the initial strategical points.. What he did!

The hill was also conquered and two eliminated enemies in the last Round!! That meant, 2+2+1+1+1 = 7 VPs

..But Lannister had been quite astute all the game long.. Just in rear guard had scored for Gabi 8p + 1p when the hill was hold by the halberdiers +1 p the archers = 10Points

Victory for the Lannisters..  But things could have been really different..
Robb Stark was  still alive with most of their army still ready!...It was an epic but not decisive battle, and War is not over!!!!!

Preview of Game of Thrones Project Bigreestructuration --Wargaming!!

Hello, after several days of hard working in the miniatures , I will how you a preview of what I was developing..

As you know, I was already making several 1/72 customized figures for the Game of Thrones /Song of Ice and Fire universe, just for fun , when I casually found a nice Tabletop miniature game which appeared during 2017-2018.., developed by Company: Cool Mini or Not? /Dark Sword miniatures..

Some pics here... The launched original figures are extremely beautiful , but (in the case fortunately!) too big, 40mm, and  veeery expensive..

Official link: https://asoiaf.cmon.com/

That motivated me extremely to intensify my own production 1/72 figures..

I would like to try those rules since they are more or less open to find some versions in the web...
It is some kind of rank and file -dicing throwing system, roughly  as Warhammer is but  easier and nicely including some rules for not-fighting characters as Cersei Lannister, Sansa Stark, Varys the Spider and so on...

This existing system and units, charachters.. allowed me to made an easier plan..

I will try to make tmy own adaptation of he Existing armies/Factions  at the moment are 5: For War of the Five Kings, only three : Starks, Lannisters, mercenaries(Neutral);
and for the Far North: Wildlings beyond the Wall and the Nights Watch (Hope to see White Wlakers as well..)

That is a huge amount of excitation for me as you can imagine.

here I show you many Charachters during my "design phase" as well as some units, compared to the look in the TV Series and some other images (the game plates themselves  were a quite good inspiration) You must believe me, I was soo motivated ..

When I finish two basic armies (Stark and Lannister) I will post more defined and beautiful images,

Here just the (huge) preview

HOUSE STARK

Characters:

I had already figures for Eddard Stark and elder son Robb Stark "The Young Wolf", (and also Arya Stark girl as wanderer..)..

I have also  Jon Snow, if not properly a Stark member (at just at the beginning!)

I expanded with Catelyn Stark, Sansa Stark and Direwolves Greywind, Ghost and Summer and Bran stark plus HODOR... (also youngest Stark child Rickon there, but not finished yet.. his Direwolf also planned next)



Choosing the right size for the DireWolves was a challenge.. It should  not be exrtemely big but also not a dog or just "large wolf".

Ral Partha fantasy Wolves work really fine

Somw Robb+Greywind inspiration images








And here the result:



For Sansa and Lady Catelyn I took two nice 25mm medieval Ladies wich happen to be close to 1/72 enough.. (Sansa comes form Thunderbolt Mountain  miniatures, I added her a hairbraid to look more similar to TV series as the figure has loose  long hair

CAtelyn was more difficult as I could not find a good Lady looking like the TV charachter..
 I chose these Mega-Miniatues lady and added her some fur cape, after modifying slightly her headdress and also braid.. She makes the job I guess

I had to study carefully pictures of their delicate dresses form the Series, as if I was a  Fashion student...

Then I went for a bigger challenge.. young boy Bran Stark riding on HODOR!!!

Hodor is a mind-weakened giant carrying a handicaped boy... I needed some engineering skills to finsd and ensamble different pieces (an Games Workshop orc body parts + a Zvezda peasant head), plus a handcrafted paper "saddle"..

Bran is a body from an old  out-of-scale french dragoon  copied from airfix , on which I added a head of a Hat andalusian bowmen.. I am surprised still of the good results...

I learnt something very  important about human anatomy and proportions-Harmony for our hobby:
A small head on a big body looks really like a plausible giant.. 
However, a big head makes the sensation just of out of scale or deformation, which we dont want at all.(that happens often with classic fantasy 28mm figures....)

Another Ral Partha wolf chosen to be "Summer"..supposed to have more bRownish or beige fur at some points:

I made Osha, the wildling woman companion who ghoes along with Bran , rickon and Hodor for a part of their journey

Battle units:

I made a unit of swordmen  (different fig available form generic norman or medieval troops) , a unit of mounted outriders, (Redbox War of roses scottish and scurrers are so good for these) and some bowmen (not pictures yet!)

And finally Berserkers form House Umber.. I needed a tall strong guy to be Greatjon Umber, Lord of that House..

Again big body (28mm viking) + Normal head (orion slavs)  = gigantic man
(and a cloake from paper tissue as read somewhere in the net.. It works...

Berserks come from viking, saxon and slavic sets.. Fierce looking is accomplishe. They wear a red Banner with an unchained giant

HOUSE  LANNISTER:

I will not post the main lannister charachters as they are over other posts, lets wait anyway for next days;

Lannister units:

Ser Grgeor Clegane "The Mountain".. some of his men-at-Arms  also ready (not pic yet)





-Lannister guards: A unit made with different swordsmen.. They look nice in my opinion!

Jaime Lannister is on command

Working on shields was difficult but fun..

Crossbowmen (any XIV-Xv fig makes the job good enogh)







Also some very important side-characters: Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger),  Brienne de Tarth- Knight Maiden and Eunuch Varys "the Spider"

And finnaly, short preview fot the upcoming Wildlings and the Night Watch;


Jon Snow  and Direwolf Ghost with Maester Aemon and Samwell TArly

And wildling giants!!!

Hoipe you liked it!!! Enough for several days!!