Classic Castle Table-top Wargame

[Jaeger]

Hello all.

I've been building a Lego-themed gaming table to be used with the "Songs of Blades and Heroes" system.

The table isn't quite finished yet, but the missing parts should be in the mail. Here's what I've got so far:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/ ... Table3.jpg

Hang Man Hill:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/ ... Table4.jpg

The troops:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/ ... goArmy.jpg

Dragon Rider and Wizard:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/ ... Wizard.jpg

This forum could do with an auto re-size function.

/Jaeger

[Rogue Shadow]

Very well done, and welcome to CC! I haven't played (or heard of) the board game that you based it off of, but I like the solid building techniques here; and I also like what you have done for the playing characters. I have tried to think of a way to do something like that, but it never came to fruition. Well done! (Nice job on using the 4x4 flat plates as character bases.) Keep up the good work!
In Christ,

[Jaeger]

Thanks.

It's a table-top game best compared to warhammer, but at a skirmish level and with differnt rules.

The models actually only have 2 stats: Quality and Combat and a few skills.

A standard knight (or rather men at arms) is Q3 and C3.

You decide how many dice you roll to activate a model (between 1 and 3 dice) and all succesess result in an action by that model. So a Q3 model would require a roll of 3 or better on a six-sided dice to gain 1 success, but there's a catch. If you roll 2 falures the play passes to the opponent and might result in that you don't get to activate all your models.

Combat is used both for attack (melee and shooting) and defence.

The skills make some models special according to the skill.

I just received more bricks from bricklink, so the table will soon be complete. Just need a few more base plates and a statue (A classic castle knight in all Light Grey actually - might be used as a golem in a scenario too).

I'll update with more pictures when I'm finished (and maybe a battle report later on).

/Jaeger

[Evil Ben]

Looks gorgeous; hope you have fun with it.

For those who haven't come across it before, the Song of Blades system is great for skirmish-level games; it's what we've been using over the last few months too. It's quick and it's got really simple mechanics but there's plenty of depth in tactics. Command and control are handled elegantly, and (in contrast to Warhammer), leader characters are vital but not usually combat monsters. In spite of the fact that each model has only two statistics, the special rules mean that all kinds of different troops can be represented. And the core rules (which are all you need) can be had for $5 (again, something of a contrast to Warhammer...).

The set-up you've got there looks pretty big, though - were you planning to use all of it in your games? I find an area only a shade bigger than nine 32x32 baseplates (if I had that many... my terrain is built on plates and smaller baseplates placed on a green cloth) is plenty for two-player games; yours looks to be at least sixteen when it's done.

[Frank_Lloyd_Knight]

I like the way you made hoods for some of the horses!

[Jaeger]

Thanks all for the comments.

@Evil Ben: Yeah my original plan was to have a 3x3 32 studs base plates table, but since I wanted to include the yellow castle I made it bigger (4x4 32 studs base plates), so the castle seemed less dominating.

I just got my trees for the woods btw:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/ ... goWood.jpg

/Jaeger

[Evil Ben]

Aha. I see. That makes sense.

I like what you've done with the dark green, there. Nice natural-looking outline for the wood.

[Jaeger]

Yeah the dark green is good for outling the edges of the wooded area, which is usefull in the game.

I also got the last pieces for my statue:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/ ... Statue.jpg

/Jaeger

[J_MAN]

The pics look great! Do you plan on posting rules for this game? I'd be interested in playing.

[ChromeKnight]

Hello all.
I've been building a Lego-themed gaming table to be used with the "Songs of Blades and Heroes" system.
/Jaeger

So have I!

you can see the board here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80685200@N00/5511393813/

The whole set here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80685200@N ... 511393813/

and for those that were asking, the rules here
http://www.ganeshagames.net/

It's fun, easy and challenging.