miércoles, 30 de enero de 2019

Game of Thrones- troops for House Tully and House Bolton


Hello, I am so trapped by this project of mine...

I went on with more fighting units..This time some Villains of the House Bolton..
I preferred the "book" version of the banner, red flayed man in "pink" field, instead the blue version of TV show,but maybe I take also one "blue"banner also afterwards..

Figures are diverse medieval peasants and levy.. They match the suggested idea of this "Bolton cutthroats" unit by the game manufacturer, and more acceptable for me in Game of Thrones  than the "Chaos barbarian" look of the game pieces...
Now I plan also the charachter figures for Lord Rose Bolton and the sadic bastard Ramsay... hope to play "battle o for the bastards"sometime!
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For the House Tully I made a unit of foot knights , I took knights and me at arms from Miniart and Strelets.. I am more or less satisfied with the heraldic on clothes,shields and so on..
Now also planning figure for Brynden Tully "the Black Fish"











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viernes, 25 de enero de 2019

Goblins and Wound markers


Hi, I was not so active last days...

Just  small things,: I started also, as other colleagues with the newest alliance nasty goblins..
As I am more classic and too Warhammer/Warcraft oriented, I kept a typical Greenskin scheme! Only one figure as example till now

I also went on with an old mithril big orc/hobgoblin chieftain which was lying around for 30 years.. He had lost one arm so I had to replace it,,,

In the pic you see also  a rare metal fig from an strange game named "Quest for the Dragonlords" which includes several beautiful figures (maybe some small, around scale 18-20mm) This is an orc archer which can be intriduced in my horde with no much problems :)





I also took the head of one standard bearer  from Alliance set, which is in my opinion too oversized... but i put it on a goblin wolf rider which I had form boardgame DEFENDERS OF THE REALM -around 25mm scale- , and the result is not bad for a great hoblin or hobgoblin elite warrior-what do you think??



Some comparison to 1/72  Kislev winged lancer...errr.. i meant polish winged hussar  :) 

(yes I know, I have to paint reins and details of the horse still...)


The Same lancer against the great chieftain



And a little show of my growing wolf rider  "orcoid" forces (the debate of orc-goblin-hobgoblin is too much for me already!!)

From lefty to right:
My converted alliance-def.of Realm figure
Games Workshop Moria orc on Zombicide wolf
Mounted  metal orc- also from rare game QUEST FOR THE DRAGONLORDS
 Hyena rider goblin from BATTLELLROE (1st Ed.)
Foot alliance goblin

Miniart germanic warrio (unfinished) for human size 1/72 comparison




In addition to that, I was wodnering how to represent wound counters in several game ideas I have in mind .
I do not like round, or square, or any regular form. I do not like to see numbers (even If I have to count I do not want to find it so "mechanical". I hate "hearts" or blood single drops. Skulls were a nice Idea but still not convencing me.. I wanted to find some kind of "blood splat"..

Searched a lot in the web even found some possible metacrylate nice pieces (5 eur for 10 markers though..) but suddenly in the little "1 eur" cheap shop under my home I found the following jelly "thing".

Result is awesome and a lot of Material. 1,80 eurand no shipment costs :)
... Damn Bloody result...












lunes, 21 de enero de 2019

Song of Ice and Fire: Test play battle for Game of Thrones


"Lord Eddard Stark could unexpectedly scape from his prison in the Red Keep.. In the meanwhile everybody in the North believed he was dead, so the Noble proclaimed his Son Robb as King in the North.. However they both rejoined soon, when Robb invaded the soutgh  leading the Stark forces....
It was some kind of problem as The Bannermen had sworn loyalty already to Robb, but nevertheless they had to move prompty together: One Royal Army lead by JAime Lannister and Ser Grgeor Clegane had already moved fast to the Rivers land... A battle was to be fought near a hill and a small 
wood.. The war could be decided much faster than expected"




Hello, Finnally I managed to play a battle of the gaming system I discovered some weeks ago...

I had already enough miniatures to make two armies of the basic set "Starks" and Lannister"

Me and my friend Luis found an oportunity last friday between 11pm and 2 am while respective families were sleeping :)

We experimented some difficulties because of late hour of the day and our first time playing (our english was also not so good so late and reading rulebook was harder than usual). Anyway we found the Game quite agile and funny.. 4 rounds of hard and fast fighting.. Around One hour!!

First challenge of all: dealing with transport to Luis´place: My magneted figs on a toolbox . it worked! The neodymium mangnets glued under the fig bases are quite strong, they stayed fixed on the movement trays (also adapted at home with a very narrow iron sheet)  see the pictures,







They arrived almost 100% with no damages (only Robb Stark got loose of his base, I repaired him later)


Deploy: we prepared an easy scenario ... flat field with a small wood on the "west" and a low hill on the "east".  Each of those both locations had a value of 1 Victory point

We took also the smallest armies option, (30 p)
We chose: For each army around 3-4 units, 2 attacched characters and 1 NCU (not combat unit)

Luis took  the Stark forces:
-Unit of stark outrider cavalry
-Unit of stark Swordemen
-unit of Bowmen

Stark commander was Lord Eddard ,  allowed by huis son and followed by nobles, as he was more veteran and apreciated by the men.
Robb lead anway a Unit

Brienne de Tarth is a very loved character of Luis so he hired her as chacrachter among the bowmen (I believe he should had increased his troops in other way..)

Catelyn Stark was the selected NCU, she could support the troops from the tactical board


Starks were deployed  in a very loose line covering the north side



Main Stark mobile-attack force on center-left:



Bowmen on the right:




The Lannisters under my command:

1 unit of Halberdiers
1 unit of Muntains men (Men At Arms)
1 Unit of crossbowmen
1 Unit of Lannister Guards (swordsmen)

Commander fig was Jaime Lannister
Mountains men were lead by his leader Ser GREGOR CLEGANE

NCU was Queen Cersei to damage the enemy plans and moral from the rear...


Lannister deploy: strong slow-attack force on the right. containing forces on the right-center




The game is very quick as each round is played by both players alternating the activation and actions of their respectve units. You can introduce changes and extra free actions with your "Tactic cards" (specific for each army and commander, you have always a Hand of three cards , drawing  and discarting from a gane-deck of 20)

We decided to play until a 4 vP conditions was acquired by any of us. at the end of any round we would count the occupied strategical points and save them as accumulated v points


 At the beggining the halberdiers rushed trying to get the hill.. they had no movement enough





Stark riders also ran trying to get the halberdiers flank, but they were in a dellicate position. The Mountain advanded to them, but also not enought movement..!!. The riders were able to charge the halberdiers, but not from flank but frontal charge upwards  (bad situation actually)

 Their hartd fight went on for 3 rounds  (sorry no more pics there, we did not realize then!) 





Robb Stark and the swordmen tried to make an explot of the Lannister formation gap and advanced against The Mountain 




Lannister left wing was somehow slow,, They just made some volley of  ineffective bolts with the crossbwomen.. 

Maybe the swordmen could make a good manuver afterwards? for sure..




Robb hit on the Mountian flank!! Big losses for these lannister mercenaries


 


The Wolf Greywind also entered the fight!!  The Mountain nearly was smashed with all his men



But then thing went totally bad for the Stark.. Lannsiter used tactic carsds and advantages form Tactical Board (where the NCUs play), so they could move fast with the swordmen to attack Robb´s rear.. it was so much for him and his men..

 Robb was the last man fighting...


 Epic  death of King Robb.. much more heroic than...

SPOILER ALERT








... ( abloody wedding)



Jaime went quickly away to fight the approaching bowmen from the west

Poor loyal Wolf Greywind also died afterwards.. They were close to Victory of this fight anyway..

Mountains men played and unexpected role of atraccting the enemy central force and resisting the fight.. result could have been quite different if Jaime had not helped!! 



Queen Cersei had been acting and conspiring against their enemies...


The Stark bowmen tried to advance on the West to the wood, but they were counterattacked again by Ser Jaime who made the more strategical actions of ther Game, turning  and keeping a central position in the filed. 
He damaged the bowmen and even as able to conquer the Wood..  The day was for the Lannister Army



Sadly we made no pcitures of the big fight on the left between the Lannister halberdiers and the Stark riders..These occupied the strategic hill point and charged against de halbediers, who were hard and had an advantage of defensive formation and halberds, and extra attack action.. 
Riders suffered heavy losses but were able to stand for two rounds, with the ability of eddard of recovering wounds...

At the end of orund 4, the unit wa salso destroyed an the hill also occupied by the halbdrdiers.
On the other side, the bowmen with Brienne stand but the wood was lost...

Starks: 2 points (2 accumulated strategic points)
Lannister:  4 points (2 strategic points and 2 enemnies detroyed)



Funny and fast game, I want to play again soon