Friday 27 May 2022

GREYJOYS v FREEFOLK: Fire & Blood

 Thursday night's A Song of Ice and Fire battle down at Justplay saw Aden (Spykr) and I get together for our first battle since our league game back in mid-October, which was a real classic and also Fire & Blood ( A real classic).

Aden isn't the most competitive player and wanted to try out a Mance Free Folk list, so I used my Greyjoys led by Victarion...

• Blacktyde Chosen with Victarion Greyjoy - The Iron Captain • Ironborn Bowmen with Asha Greyjoy - Captain of the Black Wind • Ironborn Reavers with Nute - The Barber • Ironborn Reavers • Ironborn Reavers • Drowned Men NCU's: Wendamyr & Aeron Greyjoy



Aden had selected a Mance list as below
• Free Folk Trappers with Mance Rayder - King Beyond the Wall • Thenn Warriors • Free Folk Raiders with Tormund Giantsbane - Tall-Talker, Horn-Blower, Breaker of Ice • War Mammoth • Free Folk Raiders with Raid Leader • Free Folk Trappers (look like spearwives)
NCU's: Ygritte, Lady Val & Craster


Set up: Aden deployed two stakes centrally, while I opted for a corpse pile on my left and Weirwood on my right.

Aden set his Freefolk up Left to right with Raid Leader raiders,(marked) Tormund Raiders, Mance Trappers, Thenns, Mammoth and Trappers (marked)

I set up with Reavers, Bowmen (marked) with Drowned Men (marked) behind, Vic in Blacktyde Chosen, Reavers and Nute Reavers far right


TURN 1

Setting up 12" away, I took the swords 


and used the bowmen to shift up and shoot Tormunds raiders killing 3...


After Ygritte took the letter, Wendamyr took horses and swapped for a token...


Craster took the crown and panicked my left reavers


But they shrugged it off...


I played aggressively as didn't feel I had a choice


Being out activated, i went hell for leather and had Nute charge the Trappers on the right, needing  5+


And got a 6... I did lose 3 men to the hidden traps


And only managed to kill 3...


On the left, the raiders charged my Reavers


and with There's Too Many and the corpse pile


Did diddly squat!!!


Aden had brought the Thenns up and was hoping to taunt me over the stakes. Didnt need try, I simply charged through them after a Wendamyr shift!!!


Aye, took some damage mind


But Krakens wrathhelped


kill 3... Seemed to be the magic number for casualties this round.


As they lost another 3 when Mance bubble didnt help...


I only had the Blacktyde left


And they failed their charge after a Wendamyr shift. On the left, Tormund charged in...


And with the Raider Leaders help absolutely battered me


helped by there's too many and a bad panic which killed 5...


Board End of TURN 1

The Mammoth was blocked in, unable to march or charge and had to reposition. I was disappointed as my left flank looked horribly exposed, with Aden going first and two marked units asking to be savaged... Centrally it could go either way and same far right


TURN 2

Aden was seduced by the Endless Horde and took it first bringing Raiders up near the mammoth, allowing me to steal the swords and hack away on the trappers with Nute. I activated with the Reavers to use a card to heal up what they lost on stakes


And on my left, as Aden was concentrating on finishing off my second bare Reavers I opted to charge Tormund with the Drowned Men. I got 3 hits and with their vicious card dropped them to four Raiders...


I then got the bowmen to finish the job...


Aden had the Raid Leader raiders move up off Lady Val and then charge the Drowned men 


With all 6 hitting. But I made two 6+ saves and only lost 2 wounds. Nice!!!


Meanwhile, after the Thenns had finished off their Reaver opponents, and the Blacktyde Chosen had to charge them, before being flanked and destroyed by Mance and his Trappers,  Nute, having activated off the bags and their activation and finally hacked down the Trappers with We do Not Sow...


dropping back ready to flank the Thenns next turn...


Aden couldn't block the inevitable but he set up ready to take advantage afterwards...


END OF TURN 2

FREEFOLK 5VP's

GREYJOY 4 VP's

TURN 3

I charged into the Thenns and wiped them out, scoring the two extra VP's from when Vic had activated I the previous two turns, surging forth back behind the stakes...


And Aden brought them back on with Endless Horde... But that allowed my Drowned Men to attack off swords (and miss). Lady Val allowed the Mammoth a free move ready for a charge into the bowmen who had moved away from Mance and his trappers


The Mammoth hitting me in the rear...


Leaving Asha and one man left


BOARD AT END OF TURN 3

FREEFOLK  5 VP's

GREYJOY 7 VP's


TURN 4

Off the swords, the Mammoth finished off Asha and the bowmen


I had Aeron takes the horses but used Assault order to attack with the Drowned Men


Allowing me to heal one of my wounds and also miss again...


The Mammoth charged into them with Raid Leader helping to wipe me out but I played waht is dead may never died and survived...


I took the bags to heal up fully and be a nuisance as Mance used diversion tactics to close in


But the Trappers couldn't finish them off


But the last wound was finally taken and the game was all but over...


Although Aden did a long range charge into Nute and his Reavers, scoring 3 hits and I failed the morale badly enough to die


END OF TURN 4 

FREEFOLK 13 VP's

GREYJOY 7 VP's


Well deserved win for Aden and nice for me to see how hard it is to make headway against Mance and his Free Folk.  His dice were certainly good, better than mine over the game and Aden didn't take spearwives, my personal favourites. The Mance bubble and stakes did take their toll, adn i was overly aggressive but why not, Fire and Blood can favour the bold. I loved the Drowned Men charging Tormund, gonna do a Drowned God themed list soon, with Nute as he was the other bright spark. Shame I did 3 attacks with the Drowned Men and totally whiffed with two of them!!! But good to get to play against Aden again, less stressful than the Tully filth I normally get trampled by. Next report will be from War of the White Cloaks as I run a Harma all female Freefolk list...




Charity Appeal

Kieran "Scaddman" Scaddan is holding a 24hr sponsored wargame of ASOIF in aid of Veterans

mental Health charity on 28th/29th May.

GOOD LUCK KIERAN

Link to his Justgiving page is HERE

EVENTS IN UK


Kieran's 24 hour Sponsored Event 28th/29th May at Imjin barracks  

16 player event at Leodis Games in in Leeds, Saturday June 5th War of the White-Rose Cloaks

Saturday June 11th at Battlefield Hobbies, Daventry, Battle of the Bar-Stewards

 16th & 17th July Duke's Gaming Welsh Grand Tournament Cymru Grand Tournament

The 128 player 2 day event UK London Grand Tournament (ELO) 30th September Link

16 Player 2 day event 22/23rd Oct at the RIBBLE RUMBLE, ELEMENT GAMES, STOCKPORT, UK LINK






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