ASOIAF: Nordic GT - Winter War!

King in the North!

 This year it was our turn to organise the Nordic GT for ASOIAF here in Helsinki.

See previous GT results here

Picture credits besides me go to Antti Vaaranen, Oskari Anttonen, Andras Libal and others. Thank you!

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).

Armies on parade: Brotherhood without Banners

ASOAIF: Finnish Nationals 2025

 Largest ever ASOIAF tournament in Finland

with 30 players!

Banner designed by Johannes

Painted 2024 - to be updated

500+ miniatures got painted again!

It's 2024

Don't ask me how many other miniatures I started, but did not finish...

ASOIAF Battle Report: The Others vs. Greyjoys

The White Walkers march again

 I've been building The Others army since 2019, it was originally designed by Yannic & co. for the 1.5 season of Song but has now been redesigned by Board man gaming, find it here.

Since familiarizing myself with Shane's (BMG) awesome work, I've been brooding to play with them again. This week it happened with a club mate Ilmo, playing Greyjoys

Finished some paint jobs too:

FF Heroes converted: Harma, Rattleshirt, Styr, Weaper & Great Walrus 

Some more armoured troops, including a converted Styr's chosen.

When I play FF with these, they are Thenns

ASOIAF: Custom Tactics Boards

 Tactic's Board as a Diorama

In Song we mainly use 2D terrain (check my 3D terrain here) so to fill the "visuality gap" of the game, I've modelled several "Diorama Tactics Board". Latest one is based on 3D printed Dragonstone board used as the base. Read on to learn how these were made! 

ASOIAF: Polish Nationals

 Largest Song Tournament in the World so Far!

With some mates from the club we had already discussed for some time, that visiting a tournament in Central Europe and specially in Poland (as they've had several large tournaments) would be cool. After a very positive experience in visiting Swedish Nationals in May, three of signed up for Poland. We expected the tournament to exceed 100 players, but it eventually 171 players from 7 countries battled it out. Many of the pictures are a courtesy from Warfactory Poland.

The Loot

ASOIAF: Finnish Nationals for Song of Ice and Fire - Tabletop Miniatures Game 2023

 Winter War 2023

Nopat & Taktiikka Wargaming Club, Helsinki, organizes the traditional and annual major wargaming event every winter since many, many years. For a couple of years Song has been one of the seven or so different tournaments in the event. This time we agreed with CMON to have the Finnish Nationals status and this boosted our tournament to a new record in players (26, 18 last year) and broiught a flux of players from abroad too! We also received a generous prize support from CMON - THANK YOU!

Tournament in action

ASOAIF: first go with House Martell

 Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken

ASOAIF community is buzzing about the approaching release (hopefully during Q4 this year) of this new faction for our favorite game! Last weekend in Gencon (US) the starter set and minis were shown to the public for the first time. Based on what was seen there and some information leaked before, the community has stitched together enough resources to facilitate actually giving Martells a go!

This week we played a first game with them, facing their current allies - House Targaryen!

Read on to learn how it all went down! 

Armies on Parade: ASOIAF House Stark - updated 17.3.2023

 Winter is Coming

The Family

ASOIAF: 4th Map Based Campaign started

 Here we go again!

Our 4th Map Based Campaign and 2nd with two player teams has started with 16 players.

Read all about it and follow my campaign story here: https://25yearsofminis.blogspot.com/p/asoiaf-storm-of-swords-campaign-2021.html

ASOIAF: Elocup Tournament Battles 3. & 4.

 More Lannisters - Winds of Winter

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)

Tywin Lannister - Lord of Casterly Rock (0)

• Stormcrow Archers (6)

Bronn - The Sellsword (1)

• Red Cloaks (6)

• Poor Fellows (4)

Champion of the Faith (1)

• Gregor Clegane - The Mountain That Rides (4)

Non Combat Units

• Pycelle (4)

• Cersei Lannister (4)

• Joffrey Baratheon (4)

View this list at

asoiaf-stats.com/builder/PLAYEReu-west-2:71d3085a-6ea2-4235-bd0d-4716d48b651eLISTe7073c20-ee1f-11eb-aab0-9f515de3ad7d

ASOIAF: Mormont She-Bears

 Reinforcements for House Stark

So far this unit is the one I've spent most time painting of all the units 

I've painted for ASOIAF. I really like the models and I'm also enrolling

it to a painting competition organized by our Wargaming Club Nopat & Taktiikka

See more pictures below!

ASOIAF August Cup: 2nd Battle

FIGHTING BARATHEONS 

- Clash of King(s) and The Queen

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 asoiaf-stats.com/builder/PLAYEReu-west-2:034f34c1-fd3c-477a-b731-aec64b650d4aLISTe99bf7c0-f043-11eb-82f6-b9faa604be72

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

ASOIAF: August Cup Battle report 1.

 Game a week tournament

As an alternative for running one day tournaments with 3 games, one of my mates 

at Nopat & Taktiikka Club is organising cup style tournaments. We play one game per week and tournament runs for four weeks.

Finished another unit of Unsullied Pikemen for the tournament:

My two lists for the tournament are as follows:

MOD Faction: Targaryen Commander: Daenerys Targaryen - Mother of Dragons Points: 40 Activations: 7 Combat Units • House Bolton Blackguards (6) Daenerys Targaryen - Mother of Dragons (0) • Drogon (7) • Rhaegal (7) • Viserion (7) • Stormcrow Mercenaries (5) Jaqen H'ghar - Unnamed (1) Non Combat Units • Illyrio Mopatis (4) • Walder Frey (4)

Barristan's Phalanx Faction: Targaryen Commander: Barristan Selmy - Barristan The Bold Points: 40 Activations: 8 Combat Units • Unsullied Pikemen (7) Barristan Selmy - Barristan The Bold (0) • Jorah Mormont - The Wandering Knight (3) • Dothraki Hrakkars (5) • Stormcrow Archers (6) • Unsullied Pikemen (7) Non Combat Units • Illyrio Mopatis (4) • Daenerys Targaryen (4) • Tycho Nestoris (4)

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... 

Painting ASOIAF - first half of 2021

 

Starks & Targaryens in focus

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

ASOIAF: Map Based Team Campaign concluded

 House Baratheon reigns!

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.

Map at the start of round 5.

Read on to learn how it all ended!