Song of Blades and Heroes Solo Battle Report: Dark Ages on Fire!

 

 

 Don your helmets and grab your battle axes, it's time for another Song of Blades and Heroes (SBH) battle report.

Scenario: The situation is, a Viking raiding party (played by me) consisting of a berserk leader, 4 spear men, 1 axe man, and an archer are raiding a Saxon outpost. The Saxon defenders (played by my opponent, me, making the best moves possible) consist of a hero, 4 spear men, 1 heavy infantry, and an archer, situated on the tower. I rolled these forces up randomly and are more or less within 10 points of each other, with a slight advantage to the Saxons.

Win Conditions: The Vikings can win by burning down the tower (using the flammability rules in Song of Wind and Water). Each spear man carries a torch and will set fire to the watchtower on a 4+ attack roll. It must burn for 2 full turns after being set ablaze. A tie would be capturing the cart laden with supplies (being in base contact with it at the end of the game). The Saxons can win by repelling the attacks for 10 turns or eliminating/routing the Viking invaders. On with the show!

The Viking forces

The Saxon forces defending the watchtower

Song of Blades and Heroes: Treasure in the Desert

 

This is a fantasy battle report for Song of Blades and Heroes! Had a little time to get in a game. The scenario is "Treasure Hunt." All terrain pieces are dunes and block line of sight unless two models are on the dunes or touching the dunes.

Tundra Warriors

Desert Raiders

Warstuff, First Impressions

Warstuff is a completely genre neutral wargame for quick battles from OnePageRules under their "One Off" games section. You can play virtually anything with these rules. From dinosaurs to futuristic space battles, it can be done with just one page of rules. On the second page, it has unit creation rules with abilities. They are also free!

Kicking off 2021 the right way? Vikings vs Saxons!

Disclaimer: This is not a historically accurate account of any battle.

Rules Used: The free rules set Swordplay 2018. It's actually Swordplay 2020, which combines 2015/2018.  I used the Battleboard to Tabletop mod. It's found in the free rules section in the link.

Miniatures Used: The Vikings and the Saxons by Vyacheslav Batalov. Despite not having front and back art, these paper minis are beautifully drawn and most are done from the side to create the illusion of front and back. I haven't seen very many historical paper sets so these will come in handy. I also picked up many other historical minis, including the Normans. I found if you print them from PDF format, 115% scale is right on for 28mm. They have low ink usage, which is nice!

 I have to mention the 2D terrain from 1985 Games' Dungeon Craft: Volume I. Not a lot shown off here but it contains a lot of cool 2D houses with interiors, various trees, dungeon tiles, etc. All are double-sided.

Halkur will be leading a small band of fellow vikings scouting for settlements to raid. He's a rep 5 Huscarl star with medium armor (AC 4). His companions are rep 4 freemen with light armor (AC 2). Let the game begin!