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Author Topic: Battles of Westeros : Battle of the Whispering Woods  (Read 9733 times)

Offline Anatoli

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Battles of Westeros : Battle of the Whispering Woods
« on: May 22, 2011, 07:01:24 PM »
Played the Whispering Woods scenario today with a friend, the scenario is straight from the A song of ice and fire book series - second book IIRC (it's been a while since I read the first 3).

Anyway, the Lannister army commanded by Jaime Lannister is lured into a Stark ambush - and killed to a man with Jaime himself captured. The scenario almost played out the way it did in the books, only Jaime escaped and Adam Marbrand and Kevan  Lannister ended up as Stark captives instead.

It was still a smashing Stark victory as the victory points were counted, captured Lannister standards and the devastated Lannister morale together were more than enough.


More pictures on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2011/05/battles-of-westeros-battle-of.html





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Re: Battles of Westeros : Battle of the Whispering Woods
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2011, 10:02:42 PM »
That was interesting, thanks for sharing.  I didn't even know there was a board game based on the books.  A good board game can be just as entertaining as a miniature game.  I spent many hours playing Doom of the Eldar from GW.

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Re: Battles of Westeros : Battle of the Whispering Woods
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 11:04:20 AM »
To my knowledge there are two boardgames. One called Game of thrones the boardgame and this one Battles of Westeros.

BoW is a 2 player only game that is a refined version of Memoir 44 / Battlelore.

If you are interested in reading more about it I wrote a 3 part detailed review of it on my blog a few months back:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2010/12/battles-of-westeros-part-1-unboxing.html
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2010/12/battles-of-westeros-part-2-components.html
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2010/12/battles-of-westeros-part-3-gameplay.html


I find this one superior to Memoir 44, I have not played Battlelore but only glanced through the rulebook. The game mechanics in BoW are really to my taste (luck mixed with tactics) and you get a mission book with scenarios as well as rules and cards to make "skirmish battles" which are randomly generated terrain and forces for both sides.

 

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