Time for another Wednesday wargaming battle report! This week more game if thrones of course. Up to 3 units this time with some new commanders and non-combat characters.
I switched my commander over the the Mountain and had Tyrion and his brother helping. The Starks had Rob in command with his mommy and the great john pitching in. Armies came to 24 points.
The scenario was feast for crowd which has a couple of piles of corpses. These have the usual effects and units near them have to pass morale tests or they become worth bonus points when killed.
Forgot to take a picture of starting positions but this is part way through turn 1. As you can see Rob and his unit are rocketing up the board into a flanking position. Not wanting to be flanked I just never moved up very much!
Lines are drawn up, who is going to be the first to try a charge!
Turns out it is the Umber contingent. They absolutely brutalize my Halberds. This is really not ideal.
But just to show he can play this game too the Mountain charges Robs unit, using a tactics card I killed 11 guys and saw off the whole lot! The Stark sworn swords then start to fight my mountain men. This is a bit of a tricky situation as getting charged by 2 units would be bad. But I am able to get 2 attacks in a row with them, and kill that unit as well. However the Umber men charge and strike back hard. Eventually killing off the Mountains Men but taking heavy casualties.
With the game almost over grey wolf is still skulking about. I tried a charge with the mountain but he lost. Tyrion took the throne again which forces a panic test, and the umber guys lost a few guys leaving them with not very many, The Umber guys then charged the Mountain but got a bit unlucky going in with a disordered charge so they could not use any cards. They didn't even kill a single guy. They mountain of course finished them off.
With that we both had gotten 2 extra victory points but I killed 3 units vs 2 for the Starks. So it was a 5-4 in the Lanisters favor. Very enjoyable game, we actually forgot to take a break for supper!
Very close game as well, all the Startks had to do was retreat and they probably could have won by 1 point. I am still really digging this game.
Enjoyed have the Mountain for a commander, he can really dish out the damage, and his tactics are all about murder as you would expect. Tyrion is good also, having the side board to mess around with and cause effects to influence the battle. Plus he adds to the tactic card hand size which is awesome. The starks found Rob to be less awesome, but him giving the free wolf seemed really cool to me.
X-Wing is up next week, but sure to me more Game of Thrones after that. I am excited to try out more different commanders. Maybe Tywin or Tyrion can lead next time!
Thanks;
Mike
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