After enjoying a weekend of wargaming ambience at Warfare 2021, I continued my travels to a small town called Evesham, located somewhere there in a middle…
So why travel there, you ask… besides being a nice small town, with beautiful surroundings, it is the place where Gripping Beast has it’s HQ, well ok, it’s only location, Beast Tower as it’s called and
ruled by it’s fair and wise lord, Lord S. I am fortuned to know this great warming persona and got to visit there. Read on to find out everything about “where the magic happens”!
On the third round I was challenged by Martin Baratheon, my campaign co-organiser… as his event, Martin had chosen “Plentiful Leadership, which meant, that he could field 2 commanders in his list, gaining two good unit attachments and 12 tactics cards. Only one of them was to be nominated as THE commander, scoring extra points from objectives etc. I was lucky to obtain “Mercenaries” event, which allowed me to field a 10% larger army, that would certainly be needed!
After two rounds I had a minor loss and a crushing victory under my belt and needed to win this battle to seriously compete for victory in this tournament. Facing Lannisters again I decided to go again with my MOD -list.
Pasi played his Tywin Lannister list:
Combat Units
• House Bolton Blackguards (6) (proxyed by Lannister Guardsmen)
In my second battle I faced Baratheons (Renly loyalty) lead by venerable Eldon Estermont.
Old Turdle 3
Faction: Baratheon
Commander: Eldon Estermont - Lord of Greenstone
Points: 40
Activations: 7
Combat Units
• Rose Knights (7)
Eldon Estermont - Lord of Greenstone (0)
• Champions of The Stag (8)
• Baratheon Sentinels (6)
Bronn - The Sellsword (1)
• Baratheon Wardens (5)
Non Combat Units
• Margaery Tyrell (4)
• Cortnay Penrose (4)
• Olenna Tyrell (5)
View this list at
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An obvious choice was to play my Mother of Dragons list against slow moving, heavily armoured Baratheons.
In our cup several comps are in effect, mostly on NW, but as nobody is playing NW, the only one worth noting is the dragons doingD3+2 wounds, instead of D3+3
As a tournament house rule or comp Dragons would "only" do D3+2 wounds with their attack. There were also several restrictions to Nightswatch, but none of the participants chose to play them...
So Napoleon and his Grande Armee had reached Moscow during the first part of our campaign, and now it was time to retreat... set simple objectives:
Napoleon (me) would win if he could get 2/3 of his force beyond Berezina river in 5 campaign rounds
Alexander (Jaakko) would win if Russians could annihilate more than 1/3 of the Grande Armee
Rules for the retreat phase (adapted Dawns & Departures by Too Fat Lardies)
We skipped rules for supplying the forces
Grande Armee groups would suffer shock equal to Round number - (D3+1)
Russian Groups would suffer shock equal to Round number - (D3)
+1 would be added to the D3 roll if there was more than 60p. in the column or if the column moved more than one area
Russian forces were 4 divisions of 60 points
Grande Armee was a total of 180 points
French starting moves
We individually informed Marko, our Umpire, about our scouting and movement plans, he then proceeded to roll the dice for initiative and movement (terrain impacting). He then announced how we succeeded and where forces collided and battles erupted. Muchos Gracias Marko!
This spring I played in a "Tully faction" in our map based campaign and hence my painting focus was in adding attachments and some troops to my existing Stark army. Later my Targaryens got their long waited reinforcements and they immediately went to the top of my painting backlog
What a dramatic end to our third map based ASOIAF campaign!
My team House Tully (aka Starks) were leading the campaign, after my victory over Free Folk and capturing Highgarden from them, with a nice margin after four rounds. Campaign didn't end there, but continued to round five.
