The month kicked off with my One Hour Wargames modification for fantasy gaming before I headed out on the road:
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| Skeletons, giant and ordinary, held up the orc advance. |
I spent a week working in Florida, but brought figures and some low-effort cardstock terrain for One Page Rules Grimdark Future: Firefight:
The game was played in a VERY small area - around 18" a side if I recall. Definitely fun to be had in small spaces. The figures are all 15mm from Khurasan purchased in the early 2010s.
Everything needed for the games (I played several times) fit into but a portion of my pack:
And just for giggles, here's the view from the balcony of the condo we stayed in:
We came home for a day and then my son and I drove to Western New York to visit family and friends. On this trip, I brought my Games Workshop figures and the full size terrain:
Once back, I got it in my head to play a tournament of sorts using Grimdark Future: Firefight. The playing space I decided on was 36" x 24".
Game 1 and 2 ...
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| Alien Hive/Robot Legions vs Plague Brothers. It was a close game but the Plague Brothers won on the last turn |
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| Battle Brothers vs Blessed Sisters. The Battle Brothers crushed the Sisters, outscoring on objectives and eliminating all but one of them! |
Game 3 featured Alien Hive/Robot Legions vs Blessed Sisters:
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| One of my favorite moments form the game. The game was a draw. |
Game 4 - the title bout if you will - was a battle between Battle Brothers and Plague Brothers:
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| Battle Bros. deploy their squad on the left. |
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| Plague Bros. deploy on the right. |
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| A view from the Plague Bros. end. They won the roll to deploy first and were able to claim multiple objectives and take a defensive posture in turn 1. |
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| End of Turn 1. The Battle Bros. have covered a lot of ground, in part due to their leader having Advanced Tactics which lets him move three units 6" if they are within 12" of him at the start of his activation. |
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| End of turn 2. Both sides hold one objective. The third (upper right) is moved to "contested" status with the Battle Bros within the 3" distance to lay claim to it. |
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| Turn 3. The Battle Bros. concentrate on hurling themselves at the contested objective - not without cost. |
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| Turn 4 ended with the last objective still contested. Each side captured one objective and the game ended in a draw. In terms of losses, the Battle Brothers lost more units, but that's not how scoring is done in the basic rules. |
Painting was sacrificed in July - I didn't want to bring paints with me.
Still, I did manage to complete the first four Saurian Starhost figures when I was home:
August will see a return to gaming with others - this coming weekend hopefully will be either Firefight or maybe the Age of Fantasy: Skirmish rules at a local-ish game store. Then in two weeks, our family and friends BFRPG campaign is slated to continue with and admin session and short adventure.
With any luck, I might even get some paint applied to figures.
See you next month!
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I like the look of your OHW Fantasy game John and would like to hear more about that and your ideas for a Campaign!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Maudlin Jack! I was inspired by the look of your games, so I take that as a great compliment. I will do a more detailed post on the rules and campaign ideas eventually.
DeleteThe rules basically combine Ancient, Dark Ages, and Medieval with a few special types (Caster comes to mind) and I just assign the OHW unit type/period I think is appropriate to any given unit. I allow units to provide support to units they are in contact with, and units that have multiple enemies in contact suffer a penalty. To handle that I use advantage and disadvantage - roll 2d6 and keep the higher (advantage) or lower (disadvantage). There are other rule changes, but that's an example of how I'm approaching it.
Sounds interesting John. Please do post more when you get a chance.
DeleteI enjoyed your interesting blogpost. You seems to have been quite busy last month. Great 'travel-pack' you've made to bring games along.
ReplyDeleteThis post made me look thru OPR Grimdark Firefights rules, but I don't seems to find stats for different kind of ranged weapons on the different pdf sheets. Which shall I look for?
Thank you, Roger! Weapon ranges and such are with the faction books (all free). If you go to Army Forge and click the rules you are you using, you'll get access to all of the faction books: https://army-forge.onepagerules.com/
DeleteIf you join the One Page Rules Patreon, you get access to the army builder, which lets you build custom lists (you get to pick and choose weapons and abilities or even create your own) and view/share custom lists. People have done various historical periods for example, but you can often find an existing standard list that works - such as Human Defense Force for WWII.
Thank you John. I've totally overlooked this link at the OPR site when looking at the rules for the different games. Thank you. I'll have a look at this.
DeleteI didn't know about those custom army lists made by others, as I'm not an patreon.
I see that you're still very busy as usual! Your travel pack reminds me of my childhood! Whenever we went on a trip, I was only allowed to bring a shoe box full of toy soldiers! I really had to pare things down to fill that box, only the best made the cut! Your games look great and your balcony view was awesome! I really like the four Saurian Starhost figures, very nice! Thanks John, for another great post!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Brad! There's something to be said for having to choose which toys you will bring and which stay home. Limiting myself for both trips really helped me focus and put the games on the table - no time lost figuring out which figures i might use! And the balcony was awesome - albeit horrifically humid!
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