Another A Song of Ice and Fire night at Justplay with Greg "Greggers" Deane and his Free Folk while I'm rolling out some Targaryens for a change...
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGING
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Kieran "Scaddman" Scaddan is holding a 24hr sponsored wargame of ASOIF in aid of Veterans
mental Health charity on 28th/29th May.
Link to his Justgiving page is HERE
My list is a bit of a mix as below:
Combat Units
• Dothraki Veterans with Khal Drogo - The Great Khal (C)
• Freedmen
• Stormcrow Mercenaries with Jaqen H'ghar - Unnamed
• Dothraki Outriders with Fortune Seeker
• Unsullied Swordmasters with Grey Worm - Freed By The Dragon
NCU's: Petyr Baelish & Illyrio Mopatis
Greg went for a bit of everything too
Commander: The Great Walrus - Lord of the Frozen Shore (C)
Combat Units
• Thenn Warriors with The Great Walrus - Lord of the Frozen Shore
• Followers of Bone
Barroq - Boar Skinchanger
• Frozen Shore Chariots
• Frozen Shore Bear Riders
• Free Folk Raiders
Tormund Giantsbane - Tall-Talker, Horn-Blower, Breaker of Ice
• Barroq's Boar
NCU's: Jon Snow & Dalla
SET UP: I set up a bog after Ste put a Wall down and he followed with a Weirwood so
I placed a corpse pile.
Greg set up with Followers of Bone with Barroq on my left, with the boar just behind, Tormund Raiders
Walrus Thenns, Chariot and Bears
My Targaryens were left to right: Stormcrows, Outriders, Freedmen, Swordmasters and Veterans
I had Drogo's first target in mind and planned to ignore my right and concentrate on hammering the left
TURN 1
I let Greg go first as wanted first activation in turn 2. Luckily for Greg he had Endless Horde and put Jon Snow on horses to take it. I took letters as my initial cards were a bit meh....
I lost two Mercs to the crown panic...
Greg advanced on my left as I closed in on the centre
I then marched up on my left with the Outriders in range for an activation of the tactics board
And shot three Raiders...
I then forced the issue with Drogo moving up into the centre, and recieved a chariot charge which killed 3
Before I failed the panic!!!
I swift retreated as per my plan and then realised I didn't fail the panic check after all because of Iron Resolve... A bit rusty with Targaryens...
So having moved, I then shot the chariot in the flank for 2 wounds...
BOARD END OF TURN1
Well I was being aggressive but was probably overly so.
Tactics Board End of Turn 1
TURN 2
Activating Drogo, I played ADDRIVAT! on the chariot and charged in. Of course, I could have shot and then charged but I got it wrong. As it was, having charged off the wall, I only caused three wounds and the chariot played it's swift retreat order.
I was feeling a little foolish but hey ho
Drogo was sitting nicely in front of the whole Free Folk horde but the Outriders were on hand
Snow took the horses to speed the chariot out of the swordmasters charge arc and Baelish took the crown but used swords to get the Outriders to shoot.
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Kieran "Scaddman" Scaddan is holding a 24hr sponsored wargame of ASOIF in aid of Veterans
mental Health charity on 28th/29th May.
Link to his Justgiving page is HERE
I tried to force Greg's activations by moving up the Stormcrow Mercenaries to take the objective as he'd intimated on what he was planning...
Sure enough Barroq activated and the Followers of Bone charged in and reduced the Stormcrows down to three men due to a rubbish panic check too. The Boar then charged Drogo only doing a single wound and allowing me to use the Swift Retreat order Greg had forgotten about!!! This allowed Drogo and his veterans to shoot following the move and kill the chariot with Addrivat! on it...
I then tried to kill the boar with a Freed men charge but came up short and lost half of them to the failed panic
Greg was just biding his time for the right and forcing my activations...
Both the Thenns and Bear riders had the Battle Endurance cards which made them pretty hard turn 3 onwards. The Bears Mauled the Veterans and left Drogo on his own
Tempted though I was to heal the Khal, he was dead so I used the bags to attack
So the Outriders shot into the flank of the Followers of Bones.
Not a single hit with the weakened token...
But of course, there was a risk and Jaqen and the Stormcrow Mercenaries died to the panic
On the right, the Endless horde Raiders took the right objective as my Outriders activated on their own and shot into the flanks, doing better this time with a panic too which dropped the objective. In the centre, The Great Walrus and Thenns failed to charge to flank Drogo and lost men to the panic. They had also taken men off with regroup and reform to bolster Tormunds unit...
END OF TURN 2
FREEFOLK 3 VP's (2 objectives, 1 unit)
TARGARYENS 2 VP's (1 +1 unit)
BOARD AT END OF TURN 2
TURN 3
Not a surprise, Jon Snow took the swords and had the Bears attack, killing the Khal...
I played field control to shift the Swordmasters at start on my turn, shifting 2"left to avoid corpse pile, only realising afterwards I get to re-roll attacks anyway...
And they made the charge, getting nine attacks with Greyworm and with Precision too
and although Greg made a few saves, and despite hardened, the Thenns died to a man, taking the Great Walrus with them...
The Followers of bone healed up, denying me an attack off the bags so I shot and killed the 3 Greg had just healed
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Kieran "Scaddman" Scaddan is holding a 24hr sponsored wargame of ASOIF in aid of Veterans
mental Health charity on 28th/29th May.
Link to his Justgiving page is HERE
The Bears charged in and killed six Swordmasters
But they passed their panic...
The Followers of Bone took the left objective and the Freedmen caused a wound on the boar
before it gored them and ate them with a wasted Overwhelming assault as all the attacks hit without re-roll
I crown zapped the right FreeFolk and they dropped the objective and Tormund's Raider went to help the Bears and used Illyrio to heat the Sword Masters
BOARD AT END OF TURN 3
END OF TURN 3
FREE FOLK 6 VP's (4 objectives, 2 units)
TARGARYEN 3 VP's (2 +1 units)
TURN 4
I took the horses but used the swords and had the Swordmasters attack the bears, scoring 6 wounds
This allowed Greg to have the boar to move off Combat Manouvers ready to hit my healed up Swordmasters
Greg then healed the bears up, allowing Illyrio to take the swords and shoot dropping Barroq and his Followers of Bone down to two, and they then failed their panic for a further two wounds...
Greg took the Letters to get more cards and I then used swift reposition and a shift to take the left objective and shoot into Tormunds flank
Which dropped them to two models...
The raiders on the right took the objective there as my sword masters again hacked at the Bears
This allowed Greg to move up Tormund with diversion tactics and into range for regroup and reform from the Raiders
The Bears attacked and badly mauled the Sword Masters...
killing seven...
Allowing Tormund and his Raiders to charge in
and finish the job...
With Barroq dead at the end of the turn, the boar ran away start of next...
END OF TURN 4
FREEFOLK 9 VP's (6 objectives, 3 units)
TARGARYEN 5 VP's (1 objective, 3 + 1 units)
TURN 5
With all our units out of range and on reduced 2" movement bar Tormund, we simply activated out, with me taking the crown to avoid any panic attack
END OF TURN 5 (& GAME)
FREEFOLK 11 VP's(3 units, objectives)
TARGARYENS 6 VP's (3 +1 units, 2 objectives)
Well, it was a good game but I played it pretty badly with the exception of the Outriders. I wasted Drogo and the Stormcrows, not using Drogo and J'aqen combo. Greg capitalised on my errors but made a few of his own with exposing the Thenns and also the boar attacking Drogo and the veterans. But the Bear Rider were pretty awesome and I'll have finished painting mine by end of the weekend so I'll be running them soon. In the end, a relatively easy win for Greg.
Charity Appeal
Kieran "Scaddman" Scaddan is holding a 24hr sponsored wargame of ASOIF in aid of Veterans
mental Health charity on 28th/29th May.
Link to his Justgiving page is HERE
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