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Re: Song of Blades and Heroes
Finally purchased it and played a game. Definitely fast and easy. However, it didn't "flow" as smoothly as I thought it would...perhaps I was over-thinking the strategy choices and modifiers? Maybe next play will go smoother?
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I was EyeOfSauron back in the day. Now I'm Mythic. Last edited by Mythic; November 18th, 2008 at 01:36 PM. |
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Re: Song of Blades and Heroes
Song of Arthur and Merlin (SAM) was just released (Dec. 23). It is an Arthurian Legend sourcebook for Song of Blades and Heroes. You have three variants of the legend to use: High Medieval King, Welsh King or Historical King. Of course, you can always add in other aspects of SBH to create your own scenarios or legends. The sourcebook adds some new abilities and adds some twists to existing abilities and the magic system. SAM does refer back to the original rulebook (Song of Blades and Heroes), Song of Gold and Darkness and Song of Wind and Water. I believe Ganesha games will be offering a combo deal to get all the rulebooks at a decent price.
Check it out if you are interested in a fun, simple game where you can use any of your 15mm or 25/28/30mm figures you have available! www.ganeshagames.blogspot.com Newb. Last edited by LilNewbie; December 23rd, 2008 at 12:30 PM. |
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Played another great game of SBH tonight.
The backstory used was that Orcs and Hobgoblins had recently raided a small village in the late Autumn months for food and gear to use over the coming Winter. A small warband of Orcs and Hobgoblins were still pillaging the village when a small contigent of the local constabulary showed up to run off the raiders. These are some pictures taken during the middle of the game: Close-up from the Orcs perspective: The Raiders pulled of a small Victory by defeating the local Marshall which caused the remaining crossbowman to flee. The Victory did cost the lives of several Orcs and Hobgoblins but that just means less mouths to feed over the Winter (that is, from an Orc's perspective ). SBH=Fantastic game! Newb. Last edited by LilNewbie; March 12th, 2009 at 12:27 PM. |
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Re: Song of Blades and Heroes
This makes me really want to try SBH.
EDIT: A couple quick questions. Where do the figures start? Do you just pick sides of the map? Or is it placed about like heat of the battle, or is it scenario dependent (Like the Orcs make have been in the middle of the farm when the heroes arrived). Also, where is a good place to get a grass like mat as shown in the pictures? And could you give me some pointers on where to find a lot of cheap fantasy style miniatures? Heroscape is the only miniatures set I own right now, and if I'm going to get into another game, I wouldn't mind having some variety of figures. Last edited by A_Train; March 12th, 2009 at 11:23 AM. |
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We use D&D miniatures (DDM) for the game and you can still find most common and uncommon figures fairly cheap on EBay. They are prepainted and have uniform bases (which doesn't matter in the game but is nice looking). One of the guys involved in the group has gone through the major races represented in DDM and created stats based on the figure's name. It makes it simple to recognize figures on the tabletop. You could also use Mage Knight and Confrontation figures for the game since base size does not matter for gameplay and you can either use the entries in the books for the figures or make your own. The green felt mat is actually an old Mage Knight play mat. You would see the preprinted starting zones if I flipped the mat over. You can purchase some decent green cloth or felt from any arts/crafts store that sells material. Most Walmarts have a craft section too and they run specials all the time on spare bolts of material. I can't recommend this game enough. The more we play this game the more we like it. Newb. Last edited by LilNewbie; March 12th, 2009 at 11:55 AM. |
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Well, I ordered it (Just the starting game for now), and I am checking my email ever 5 minutes impatiently waiting for it to arrive. How long did it take when you ordered it?
I can't wait to play it, right now I am checking out check DDM figs on ebay, trying to imagine which ones will work best with the character classes needed for the game. I can't wait to read over the 180 given creatures. And I'm definitely going to make some of my own. Now I need to start working on some battle terrain.Part of me wants to make a diorama style terrain, but then I am stuck with that static map forever, but if I go with the felt map, which will look less realistic, I can have more customization for each game. Not sure which way I will go. |
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It took a few hours to receive the document but I believe the creator lives in Italy so there is a time difference and he mentioned he is in the middle of moving to a new house on the Yahoo group.
Personally, I don't want to play on the same terrain all the time so I go for the modular or customizable terrain fields. They don't look as great as a full terrain diorama but I think the battlefields in the pictures above look pretty good overall. I would recommend start playing the game by using the terrain you have from Heroscape. Use the ruins, trees, jungle pieces for terrain as you build up your other terrain collection slowly. You can pick up some green and blue 8.5 x 11" pieces of felt and cut them out for small copses of trees and ponds. Then put a few HS trees on the green felt to add some dimension to them. It's a cheap way to get some 3d terrain without too much hassle. Newb. |
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Just got it, reading it over now, with specific attention to learning the Special skills.
Excited! |
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Re: Song of Blades and Heroes
Has anyone tried the dungeon crawl expansion rules?
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Have read over the rules a few times, but haven't gotten a chance to play just yet. I was wondering if anyone had made up any house rules for SBH.
A few things that stuck out to me were: Ranged units being unable to attack figures who are engaged with friendly figures. I understand this is because you may hit your own figure, but I think it would be more fun if you could take the shot, but have risk of striking your own figure (something that could be based off of quality). The limit of 100 points (when playing with 300 total) being able to go towards personality characters. I was creating my first warband, and wanted both a human leader and an elf magic user. This was not possible. Do you guys break the rules on this one at all, or to you abide by it. Nothing else at the moment, can't wait to play it. |
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The dungeon rules are very solid and be implemented in many different ways depending what your tastes are. Really, I would say every expansion is worth it if only for the new special abilities you get. But the dungeon expansion is easily my favorite.
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