Alex brought his Lannisters down to face my all Stormcrow army with its freshly painted Dervishes for our Thursday night game at Justplay https://justplaygames.uk/
Sadly, I left Bronn and Darrio Naaharis at home, so have stand in models for them...
Stormcrows
Stormcrow Dervishes with Daario Naharis (C)
Stormcrow Dervishes with Bronn
Stormcrow Mercenaries with Jaqen Hagar
Stormcrow Mercenaries with Stormcrow leiutenant
Stormcrow Archers
NCU's: Petyr Baelish& Varys
We rolled scenario, and it came up A Game of Thrones. We also randomly generated terrain and they ended up mostly in my side, left to right wood, wall, bog, weirwood, wall...
Alex is relatively new to game and picked a solid starter based force led by Tywin Lannister. It deployed my left to right: Knights of Casterly Rock, Lannister Guards with Assault veteran, Halberdiers with Tywin, Mountains Men with Jamie Lannister. NCUs were Cersei, High Sparrow and Pycelle.
TURN 1
I deployed with Lt's Mercenaries on left, Bronn's Dervishes, Daario's Dervishes, Jaqen's Mercs and then Archers right.
Alex chose to go second, so I took the cards while he followed with the horses on Jamie's Mountains Men. I marched up on the right with Jaqen.
Having marched up onto the right objective, my archers were in range of the Mountains Men who i panicked and weakened on my next activation.
Sadly, Tywin marched up into range next, and I opted to shoot him with the swords...
Scoring an impressive 6 hits, I had to reroll due to weakened
And got half as many...
One Halberdier was lost, but Tywin failed his panic...
Sadly, I didn't realise the new Lannister Supremacy was an order, and I lost two...
The influence of the High Sparrow allowed the halberdiers to heal 3 as I was crown zapped
End of Turn 1 tactics board.
Board END of TURN 1
All forward to the fight
TURN 2
Alex activated first and took the Horses with Pycelle, who weakened the archers. The Mountains Men advanced up ready to charge, so i took the bags with Baelish but used the swords to drop two off of the incoming Mountains Men. (Didn't realise Jamie gave +2 morale, with a nasty order). In they came, with their critical blow...
Oh how I do like lucky dice...
I did save two though...
And despite vicious kicking in, I managed to pass my morale check...
I activated Jaqen Mercenaries to flank the Mountains Men, scoring 3 hits and dropping but thanks to Jamie's morale boost passed their panic...
The Sparrow too the swords but the Mountains Men fluffed their attacks...
So in went the wakened Halberdiers, who after re-rolls scored 1 hit. Sundering and in the flank...
And I got the only result I needed. No panic, no restored wounds due to Sparrows influence...
Varys took the crown to avoid it being used against me. Tywin passed his panic.
I then used issue commands to allow Jaqens Mercs to attack again, and the result was pretty good, dropping Jamie's Mountain men down to 2 as he failed a panic after wounds. This allowed the Guards to take the centre objective, and after I took the left one, I had to receive a charge from teh Knights, dropping 4 Dervishes as Bronn had increased defence and morale with bags...
Not that my dice needed Bronn's help...
The board at END of TURN 2
END OF TURN 2
THE LIONS OF LANNISTERS 2 VP's (1 destroyed unit, 1 Objective)
THE DIRTY STORMCROW MERCENARIES 1 VP ( 1 Objective)
TURN 3
I used Varys on bags to allow the Mercs to finish off Jamie and the Mountains Men, and got the prize next turn!!! Tywin got an attack of the swords but the depleted rank and 4+ to hit saw them only score 1 wound and I passed my panic.
My newly added Jaqen Lannister's Mercs activated and struck the Halberdiers, dropping them to a rank with the help of reckless strike...
Tywin then struck back at his wayward son, scoring a couple of wounds but Jaqen Jamie failed his morale for 2 more. When the crown was used to panic the Stormcrows and I passed, I used a token off Varys and caused 3 hits and wounds on Tywin...
I left the objective on the left to flank the Knights, scoring two wounds.
I really enjoyed Mercenary Jamie fighting his old man...
The Knights attacked the Dervishes...
6 hits was the result... and I saved all 6 !!!
As my Dervishes had retreated following their attack, Cersei took the horses and had the Knights of Casterly Rock retreat out of combat. I used Varys's last token to shift Darrio's Dervishes, right 3".
This allowed them to activate and charge in and finish off Tywin Lannister!!!
Board at END of TUN 3
House Lannister 3 VP's (2 from objectives, 1 unit)
Jamie Lannister and his Mercenary Stormcrows 3 VP's (2 units, 1 objective)
TURN 4
Alex took the horses to get the Knights over towards Daario and his Dervishes.
I had Baelish take the letters but use the bag to heal Jaqen Jamie's unit...
Alex charged the Knights in...
Hitting hard, I saved half...
I took the swords but swapped it for Sellsword Negotiations to heal up Daario's unit...
Cersei's crown had no effect on Jamie who charged in planning to use reckless strike but I rolled a 1 so no card...
This allowed the Lannister Guards to charge the Mercenaries in the rear, leaving Jaqen alone with a panic check on a 7+
Result!!!
Lannister v Lannister???
Battle at END of TURN 4
DAARIO's STORMCROW's 7 VP's (2 from units, 5 from objectives)
LIONS OF CASTERLY ROCK 3 VP's (1 unit, 2 objectives)
Meanwhile, Raymond's Baratheons were hammering away at Colin's Targaryen's.... It ended 8-8 at end of Turn 6,with Colin taking the win on unit left
Dale's Starks caught me spying as Aden concentrated on getting his Greyjoys out of the pickle he was in...
TURN 5
I used Varys on the bags to allow Daario and his Dervishes to attack, reducing the Knights down to a solo horse and then they retreated away. The Knights then finished off Jamie.
I then activated Daario and they charged into the Knight's finishing them off and surging back onto the objective...
The Guards did try and finish off Bronn's Merc's but Bronn held on.
END OF GAME
STORMCROW MERCENARIES 11 VP's
HOUSE LANNISTER 4 VP's
That was an excellent battle, and my dice were really hot. Alex is still learning the game and really went straight at it, the mountains men were unlucky not to break right through the Archers, which allowed me the flank. I misjudged, expecting the Halberdiers to hit my rear opening them up for the Dervishes. The Stormcrows certainly performed better than the Bloody Mummers but then Alex had a relatively friendly Lannister list and didn't take the bag in any round which aided me. As per usual I had some pretty good rolls, and thought Jamie Lannister was brilliant for me. Ja'qen is not someone I've used before but I'll be sure to use him in future...
Alex's list was good but I think missile troops are now a good call for any force and I still don't rate 3 NCU's at the expense of a fifth unit. Great to play Alex as he is more fluff orientated than filth, which is best way to play (we kept the objectives hidden until a unit took them)
EVENTS
The biggest ASOIF event in the UK... A Song of Ice and Fire UK GT | LGT 2021 (lgtpresents.co.uk) Two day event in London run by Chris Eustace. I cannot go sadly, but a few of the Justplay regulars are...
Justplay will be holding their second event on Saturday 16th October. Tickets will be available soon here, so save the link if your interested. https://justplaygames.uk/collections/event-tickets
The lads at Imps Gaming in Lincoln are running another event in November which I'll be going to... A Song of Ice and Fire Ticket - Nov 2021 (imps-gaming.com)
I'll be running a two day event at Ribble Rumble in December at Element Games in Stockport, for 16 players The Ribble Rumble - ASOIF | Facebook
Gavin up at Gaming Figures in Redcar will doubtless run a few too Gaming Figures
As hopefull will Entoyment down in Poole, who organise the awesome Beachhead exhibition. Homepage - Entoyment Wargaming and Hobby Centre
Board & Swords https://www.boardsandswords.co.uk/ and Board in Brum https://www.boardinbrum.co.uk/will hopefully add another event in before end of year...
All the above venues support the game and sell A Song of Ice and Fire Miniatures. Check them out, or pop in and visit if you are in the area...
COMING SEPTEMBER
The Justplay League!!! Will update more but essentially we're going to be running a campaign/league with a great wee rulepack masterfully put together by Greg Deane (Greggers)
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