Red Book of the Elf King: Star Fall

[James Morris]

Paul W and I recently hauled out the Elves and Trolls for a Red Book of the Elf King clash. It’s a game we both really enjoy despite the lack of recent releases and always provides a challenging scrap. 

We had started playing through the Troll Wars scenarios in order a couple of years ago, but had forgotten where we’d got to, so decided to just pull a scenario out of the original rule book. This was Star Fall – a fairly simple quest to retrieve a piece of star iron from the centre of the table.  The problem was that only the Thane (the leader of each circle, or warband) had sufficient power to carry the star iron off the table – and would automatically take a penalty counter for doing so, thus inhibiting their actions.  As it turned out, this would decide the game!

I was playing Vachel Goldenhand – the most powerful warrior Thane in the game – along with his companions, the Circle of Towers (18 elves in units of three).  Paul selected Troll Lord Ragnvhar Earsplitter – who bears a striking resemblance to a blue version of Slaine – and his gang of cronies (15 trolls in units of three). By sacrificing a further unit of trolls, Paul was able to take a Pel Witch, a human spellcaster. 

Terrain involved pulling out one of my snowy cloths (created from fleece fabric) plus a number of frosty stone circle pieces – either repurposed pine bark chippings or 3d prints.

An excellent fun game, even if I ended up getting beaten big time by the Trolls!

The full battle report is on the blog here should you wish to read more and see the rest of the pics: https://mogsymakes.net/2022/03/18/red-book-of-the-elf-king-star-fall/

[manic _miner]

 Really great looking table and terrain.Always liked seeing your games of this.

 A real shame that there have not been more releases.I am sure another book was mentioned awhile back too.

 Still not painted the miniatures that i have for this.

[KGatch113]

Where are the elf miniatures from?

[Drunkendwarf]

Where are the elf miniatures from?

https://www.lucideyepublications.com/the-red-book-of-the-elf-king?

DJ

[KGatch113]

Thanks!

[NotifyGrout]

Thanks for the battle report. I've been wanting to play this with a local friend, but his schedule is limited these days.

[Hobgoblin]

Looks a great game! I get a strong whiff of Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, which is no bad thing!

[Sir_Theo]

Always looks an interesting game and the figures are tremendous

[DivisMal]

Great looking game! I was always interested in the system, but you can only have so many unfinished projects. It’s good to see some people are actually playing it!