The Wardens of the North West league Game 3 saw Raymond pitch up at mine rather than our usual venue at Justplay. The full League blog by Aden can be found here Wardens
The winner of the game would move to the top of the league, and with my win over Ray at the weekend Justplay tournament, this was going to be a proper hard match up. We were playing A Dance with Dragons.
My randomly selected list for the match up was as follows:
Bolton Cutthroats
Bolton Cutthroats
Bolton Cutthroats with Roose Bolton (C)
Bolton Blackguard with Ramsey Snow
Bolton Flayed Men
NCU's: Petyr Baelish & Lord Varys
Plenty of panic inducement for A Dance with Dragons, so not the worst list
The Sadist brings up the rear of teh Bolton column with his Blackguard
Plenty of Bolton Cutthroats on display...
Raymond's force of Rnely Baratheons was pretty nasty in terms of healing and low morale
Stormcrow Archers with Bronn
Champions of the Stag with Glory Seeker
Baratheons Wardens
Rose Knights with Renly: Lord Paramount (C)
NCU's: Courtney Penrose, Walder Frey & Margery Tyrell
Terrain had corpse pile left, Weirwood tree, wall and anotehr corpse pile. Set up left to right:
Baratheons: Wardens, Stormcrows, Champions of the Stag, Rose Knights
Bolton: Flayed Men, Cutthroats, Blackguard, Roose Cutthroats, Cutthroats
And Raymond is a pretty poor Fonzy impersonator...
TURN 1
Raymond went first and took the horses to advance the Rose knights. I took the crown after taking the letters. (Raymond had activated his Rose knights between)
The Wardens passed their morale...
END of TURN 1
With first activation next turn, I had the Flayed Men right in the wardens face as he had blocked a charge agains the Stormcrows. In the centre, I felt I'd struggle to get the objective back from Renly so Roose had led his Cutthroats right. (In hindsight, I deployed poorly)
End of Turn 1 tactics board
TURN 2
No mucking about. In went the Flayed Men...
They scored five hits...And the Wardens saved them all, bouncing back two hits with their counterstrike!!!
Hmmm... So he rolls five 3+'s and I couldnt roll a single one!!!
Not the devastating charge I had envisaged. And then the Stromcrow archers activated off the swords
I failed 3 armou saves...
And a further 3 wounds were taken in panic...
Having devastated my cavalry, I tried to do the same by charging into the Champions of the Stag
I managed to score 6 hits...
But only caused one wound, with Raymond passing his panic check. Renly charged in, and hit hard
But at least my morale held. However, Renly retreated away after exposing his flank, usign an NCU on the horses. I spent a Varys token to shift 3" forward with the blackguard
This allowed the Blackguard to get stuck in, as my left flank was crumbling...
All six attacks managed to hit
And scored 4 wounds, further exacerbated by Renly failing his panic check. Add in intimidating Presence, and that was pretty impressive!!!
Meanwhile, the Champions of the Stag finished off the Cutthroats
I didnt roll well but didn expect to ... The Champions repositioned for next turn.
I could have advanced Roose onto the objective for 2 VP's, but felt I had to take risks and so used his actviation to issue commands, but without re-rolls didnt manage to repeat my earlier success, killing two (but one came back as Renly passed his morale).
The Champions of the Stag activated and hit the Blackguard in the rear, killing 7 of the Bolton stalwarts
Not great...
Activating off the swords, lashe dout at Renly, but didnt do anything. Renly struck back, but sadly failed the "horrific visage " panic check...
With intimidating presence, Renly lost all four rose knights, barely hanging on himself. And I was bale to use "Fear keeps a Man alive" to heal 4 blackguards!!!
Using Courtnay to keep Varys off the bags, old man Walder activated last, taking the letter but using the swords to attack again with the Champions of the Stag
Not the best place to get attacked with sundering
And critical blow!!!
Needing to roll sixes, i didnt come close to surviving....
And Renly got healed by the Glory Seeker too..
END OF TURN 2
HOUSE BARATHEON 5 VP's (2 objectives, 3 units)
HOUSE BOLTON 0 VP's
TURN 3
Using Margery to take the swords, the Stromcrows shot and wiped out the Flayed men
Should be a pile of dead, heavily armoured cavalry there!!!
I tried and failed to charge the weakened Renly Rose Knights with my second vanilla Cutthroats, but they failed. Courtnay took the bags to allow Bronn's stormcrows to fire again, this time at the Cutthroats who had failed their charge
As per below, with bags and swords the Stormcrows cut the cutthroats to bits...
Before the Champions charged in
Scoring 5 wounds, I surprisingly managed to pass my panic check
Finally, some sixes to save 1 man...
Activating last again due to Courtnay keeping Varys off zones, Walder took letters but used swords
Allowing the Stormcrows who had moved up to fire for a third time with all 3 bonuses. The last cutthroat died...
I had moved Roose and my last unit up onto the right objective
The board at the end of Turn 3 was rather embarassing
END OF TURN 3
HOUSE BARATHEON 8 VP's (4 objectives, 4 units)
HOUSE BOLTON 2 VP's (2 from 1 objective_
TURN 4
Using the bags, the Stormcrows activated to shoot into Roose's Cutthroats...
They lost two men, and a further one to the panic dropping the objective. But they collected it as they charged into the Rose Knights...
Decent enough hits...
They succeeded in dropping 3 Rose Knights, but then used horses to retreat and leave Roose to the tender caress of the Stormcrows
A crown double tap didnt finish Renly...
And after Bronn's archer reduced the Cutthroats down...
With some nice shooting...
Renly charged into the flank to finish the job...
But hold on a minute!!!
Not quite, as I was vulnerable... Did get one 6 still, leaving Roose alone to ponder his crimes. Before he ran away!!!
Board at teh end of TURN 4 (and Game)
END OF TURN 4
HOUSE BARATHEON 13 VP's (5 units, 8 objectives)
HOUSE BOLTON 2 VP's (2 objectives)
Well, Raymond now sits on top of the league with me third on dead difference. Nothing I can say, he absolutely battered me, especially with the Stormcrows. I had targeted the Wardens as an easier target than the Rose Knights, but I got that wrong. Ray's dice were on fire and mine weren't, and i just couldnt capitalise. A thoroughly deserved victory to the Baratheons...
EVENTS
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)
Board in Brum have another day event on 20th November. https://www.boardinbrum.co.uk/product/asoiaf-war-of-the-west-20-11-21/
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 (Only 1 place remaining)
John Craig is hosting Always Winter at Common ground Games in January 2022 (22nd/23rd) at Stirling, a two day event that I plan to go to, link here ALWAYS WINTER (I've got my ticket and there'll be 3-6 of us from The Wardens of the North-West!!!)
Gavin up at Gaming Figures in Redcar will doubtless run a few too Gaming Figures
As hopefully 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...
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