ASOIAF: REALMS OF BATTLE 2025 in Warsaw

Had once again great time in the largest Song-tournament of the year with some 160 players in Warsaw. This time my tournament success was just awful, but luckily the games were pretty good and tight: two ties (victory through points on the table), 2 x 1 point defeat, 1 x 2 point defeat (also one crushing victory and one crushing defeat). Even better was to meet with old friends from the Song community and to get a couple of new ones - special mention to Andras from Romania, whom hanged out with Team Finland (aka Monsters from the North) on Sunday evening and on Monday. One highlight of this trip was also to visit Wargamer HQ, where we mostly buy our toys for Song and other wargames. Thanks for hosting us Michal and Tomasz!

Some of the pictures are by Warfactory (source Facebook) and some by Antti (Rivarama).

Friday

Team Finland: me, Antti (Rivarama), Jukka (Tormund) and Pasi (Ithmarog)

Saturday

Sunday

So I was Very far from top three, but one of my goals was achieved: my Greyjoy army was rewarded as the best army in the tournament!

This made me very happy, as I’ve been painting them since August.

Traditional After tournament dinner at Podwale restaurant

Monday 

Visiting Wargamer.pl HQ and Warsaw

Wargamer's Summer - WIP

 We wargamers see the world in a different way, don't we?

This is what I did this Summer.

Sitting in my castle in the edge of Peak District, England

ASOIAF: Game with Grant from Yecats MIniatures

 Great to meet and play F2F

If you're into ASOIAF and have an internet connection, you probably know Yecats Miniatures and their YouTube channel. I've visited the channel as a guest a couple of times and as I was on a holiday in UK, we agreed to have a game at his house, near London.

Read on to find out how it all went down!

First half of 2025 on the painting desk - Updated 12.5.

Miscellaneous stuff painted 

Finishing the Brotherhood without Banners for Song

Lady Stoneheart

Beric Dondarrion, the Lightning Lord

Thoros

ASOIAF - THE INVITATIONALS 2025 in Stockport UK - Updated 21.4.2025

Best of the best gathered at The Invitational

From left: Seppo (Geelot), Jaakko (Corpmake), Johannes (Forestpond), Antti (Rivarama) and me (Kujala). Photo by Doug

Team Finland joined both the Team event on Friday with 5 players and with 6 players on the actual event. Our team was truly the best players from Finland, at the time of writing this all Team event players are at top 6 in Finnish ranking with an average Elo of 1907 (probably was even higher when we entered the tournament)

Several pictures in this blogpost are by the awesome Doug Gordon, see more of his photos of the event here 

NOTE: my most recent update (last games and conclusions) seem to not have been saved, darn. now re-written.

Armies on parade: Brotherhood without Banners

ASOAIF: Finnish Nationals 2025

 Largest ever ASOIAF tournament in Finland

with 30 players!

Banner designed by Johannes