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Post by mrbaldrick on Apr 26, 2020 4:12:42 GMT
Back in March my son and I got a siege game into take our minds off things. It's been a while so I can't remember the whole things but here are some highlights. We were mostly sticking to the siege rules from the Blood in the Badlands book. 4000pts of Lizardmen attacking 2000pts of Empire defenders and a 2000pt Kislev/Empire relief force. Set up  Before the game starts the rules call for each model in the defenders force to make a "Starvation Test" due to their dwindling supplies. My son rolled amazingly! All this was dead before Empire turn 1.  What's left after on turn 1  Turn 2 Kislev relief force arrives  Defenders thinning.  Kroxigors make it over the right flank, Saurus make it over the left.  Skinks Cohort (mostly Kroxigors) break through the side gate.  By the end of turn 5 the Lizardmen have taken all 3 objectives, the main gate, the side gate, and the inner keep with the BSB.  It was fun to break out the Mighty Fortress and play something different. |
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Post by gangland on Apr 27, 2020 16:39:05 GMT
Looks like a lot of fun. I was actually looking at that river set on amazon and would really love to pick it up, but lack of playing is mostly what has me holding off. Can't wait till I can go see my friends and get some games in.
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Post by mrbaldrick on Apr 28, 2020 3:12:28 GMT
Looks like a lot of fun. I was actually looking at that river set on amazon and would really love to pick it up, but lack of playing is mostly what has me holding off. Can't wait till I can go see my friends and get some games in. It a great set. You can do all kinds of crazy things with it. I can't recomend enough. I am loving some of this neoprene terrain out there right now.  |
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Post by sedge on Apr 28, 2020 8:31:30 GMT
That battle looks great fun. How did you find the siege rules?
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Post by mrbaldrick on Apr 28, 2020 10:06:38 GMT
That battle looks great fun. How did you find the siege rules? We used the siege rules out of the Blood in the Badlands book and modified them a little. We gave the gates each 8 wounds at toughness 7. Honestly I found the rules a bit clunky in parts and part about breaching the walls takes a couple times to read over. I thought the Starvation roll was very thematic and I like the reinforcements arriving by reserve. But in all it was a fun time. |
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Post by midnightfox0083 on Apr 28, 2020 14:42:46 GMT
Looks like a lot of fun. I was actually looking at that river set on amazon and would really love to pick it up, but lack of playing is mostly what has me holding off. Can't wait till I can go see my friends and get some games in.
Would you mind PMing me a link? My Amazon-fu at work is lacking.
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Post by dannytee on May 8, 2020 19:11:58 GMT
Looks like a lot of fun. I was actually looking at that river set on amazon and would really love to pick it up, but lack of playing is mostly what has me holding off. Can't wait till I can go see my friends and get some games in.
Would you mind PMing me a link? My Amazon-fu at work is lacking.
Blood in the bad lands was a campaign book from +\- 6 years ago. Certainly not in print any more so you wouldn’t find this book on amazon. My group played siege battles using these rules for a time. They were decent but the end result (win/loss) seemed to be highly random. Seemed like more was left to luck than skill, list building, planning, etc. So we changed to using rules from the 5th edition siege book, with some tweaks to make compatible for 8th. There were also siege rules in the 6th ed rule book. I used to play those but it has been like 14 years since I played with those so I don’t have much recollection of how those worked. |
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Post by mrbaldrick on May 8, 2020 19:42:36 GMT
Blood in the bad lands was a campaign book from +\- 6 years ago. Certainly not in print any more so you wouldn’t find this book on amazon. He was asking about the river set not the book. Actually you can find lots of out of print stuff on Amazon. There is even a copy of Blood in the Badlands on there but it does come with a hefty price 😉 |
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Post by midnightfox0083 on May 8, 2020 21:58:11 GMT
Blood in the bad lands was a campaign book from +\- 6 years ago. Certainly not in print any more so you wouldn’t find this book on amazon. He was asking about the river set not the book. Actually you can find lots of out of print stuff on Amazon. There is even a copy of Blood in the Badlands on there but it does come with a hefty price 😉 Yes, this. I've already got a copy of BitB as a sense of completeness(I'm only missing Sigmar's Blood and the Lizardmen army book to have a complete 8th ed book set). I like the Campaign rules, prefer the 6th ed Siege rules. |
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Post by grandmasterwang on Jul 17, 2020 6:37:21 GMT
Haha that starvation was brutal! Nice report.
The river is definitely versatile.
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Post by KevinC on Jul 22, 2020 14:18:43 GMT
Looks like a lot of fun. I was actually looking at that river set on amazon and would really love to pick it up, but lack of playing is mostly what has me holding off. Can't wait till I can go see my friends and get some games in. It a great set. You can do all kinds of crazy things with it. I can't recomend enough. I am loving some of this neoprene terrain out there right now. I just ordered two sets!! |
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