Song of Blades and Heroes: Giant Battle

Max was playing his Giant Force: a Shadow hulk, mystic giant, fire giant, treant, and a ninja.

I played Hendra's Heroes: Hendra, wizardress; 3 Human heavy infantry; 2 human crossbow men; 2 elite dwarven warriors; 2 dwarven warriors; a human thief.

The battle was back and forth and touch and go, but in the end, Hendra, a dwarf warrior, and a human heavy infantry were left standing. The Giant Force were defeated. A pictoral history of the skirmish is below.

The forces are assembled.

The Giant Force advances.

The battle is joined.

The shadow hulk falls, the fire giant is harried on all sides, transfixed by Hendra, and brought down by the heavy infantry.

Hendra takes to the high ground.

 The ninja assassinates the thief and stealthily makes his way toward Hendra.

Hendra rallies her flagging troops, and they all return to the fray. Only the treant and ninja remain.

Hendra once again takes to the high ground to sling spells.

The ninja makes his way toward her.

The ninja attacks!

But so does the dwarf. Hendra's Heroes are the victors. Now to see to their dead and wounded. The countryside is safe again.

Our next excursion involves a bridge too far. Stay tuned for more Song of Blades and Heroes goodness.

Thanks for reading and may your dice fall the right way and play, play, play.

Song of Blades and Heroes: Rumble in the Ruins

Max and I played the long awaited Rumble in the Ruins scenario.

I played Tezzer's Terrors: a troll, ogre, half ogre warrior, and a tiefling wizard vs. Max's halfling veteran, Human heavy infantry, human crossbowman, Holt the Cleric of Palan, and Thurd the civilized barbarian. His crossbowman took out my ogre right between the eyes, but once my warband advanced on his position, his troops fled the field of battle.

 The battlefield is set

 Max maneuvers his forces into place

 The Terrors are on the move

 Tezzer takes cover

 The Terrors achieve tactical advantage. Tezzer issues orders for his troops to advance.

 Troll vs. Barbarian

 The Defenders of the Ruins fight back!

 The Terrors skirmish well

 Poor halfling...

The Terrors have taken the ruins. The remaining defenders are on the run. Victory belongs to terror! 

Thanks for visiting. Until next time, may your forces rally to your flag and may your troops' weapons never fail!

Once Upon a Song of Blades and Heroes

Max and I sat down for a rematch. He played the Motley Crew, and I was playing the Human and Dwarf Alliance Squad. Max continued his tactic of always rolling 3d6 for his activation rolls. Let's see how he fared in this skirmish...

 Here is Max. A bit scared at the start but brave enough to fight on.

 I immediately send my artillery to the high ground with ground support from my infantry "tanks."

 Here the dwarves plug up the breach in the natural ring of rocks while hobgoblin magic flies by them.

The undead march forward only to be dead again under the weapons of the dwarves and the powerful crossbow of Kyper Sub.

The dwarves were not without a few lumps themselves...

Within two turns, the dwarves had defeated all of their opponents at the breach and sent the others fleeing.

Max was so intimidated by dwarf power, that he just had his remaining troops run away, and the Human Dwarf Alliance Squad won the day.

Take that, son! That will teach you to cross swords with your dad!

Thanks for reading and until next time may your Song of Blades and Heroes ring clear in the hall!

Max Discovers

Max wanted to play an RPG, but I thought that he might enjoy a miniatures skirmish game instead (in other words, I wanted to play Song of Blades and Heroes). I let Max choose what minis he wanted in his warband, and then I chose mine. 

He chose two dwarf warriors--one elite--a human crossbowman, a human heavy infantry, and a human wizard named Earon. 

I chose a bugbear guard, a hobgoblin heavy infantry, a hobgoblin commander, and a hobgoblin warcaster. We set them up on my Zuzzy mat with some terrain I chose, and the battle was on. 

Below are some pics of our skirmishes...

The humans and dwarves stand over the final opponent's body, victorious.

For our second battle, Max wanted to play the "bad guys" and chose several random minis for his warband. For simplicity's sake, I decided to play his warband from the game before.

His new warband had a frogman spearwielder, the hobgoblin warcaster, a dire weasel, two skeletons, and an orc skeleton. A motley crew, indeed.

Through superior tactics, the humans and dwarves devastated the motley mix and sent the warcaster running for his pathetic life. My forces had not one casualty.

Max is totally enamored of the game, as am I, of course. He picked up the rules with little problem. I found it awesome that he insists on always rolling 3 dice for activations no matter what. We have another battle set up, a re-match of sorts. I will post more about it after the combatants have met on the field of blades and heroes...

Thanks for reading and until next time, may your dice always fall your way.

Death Angels Fly Again and StormBringer Meets the Sentinels

My friend of 38 years, StormBringer came for a visit yesterday. After a visit with the family and lunch, us guys went to the Geek Cave for a bit of gaming. StormBringer chose to play Death Angel: Space Hulk the Card Game, a game near and dear to my heart. We randomly chose our 4 teams, and delved into the Hulk. 

 By the end of the game, we had lost only two Marines and launched off of the Hulk, the Genestealers left behind...A proud day for our Chapter!

After fighting off swarms of Genestealers, I introduced StormBringer to...

In real life, StormBringer is a runner and a scientist of sorts, and one of his favorite superheroes is the Flash. The obvious choice for his first game of Sentinels was, of course, Tachyon, the scientist speedster. I played Absolute Zero and Ra: fire and ice and fire. Max played his favorite, Tempest. We went against Citizen Dawn and her legion of supervillains in Megalopolis. 

We barely defeated her Dawnness but defeat her we did...Only Absolute Zero fell in our titanic battle. StormBringer loved it...as I knew he would. This game rocks. 

After our game, StormBringer and I packed up and headed over to our friend's house for two more games of SotM, this time with 5 players, and an epic game of Magic the Gathering: Commander that went way too long but was way too much fun! An excellent day of gaming it was. 

Thanks for reading and until next time, go save the Multiverse and have fun doing it.