So we had the Big Gunz guys down from Sacramento this past Saturday to playtest the new Fantasy rules for Brink of Battle.
Unfortunately, I took few pictures as I was having a great day with hot dice and was a little to focused on playing and discussing rules balance than taking photos. Here's the brief run down with the pics I did take.
The warbands were as diverse as you could ask for. Me and Alan were the only two that had unpainted forces, so we had to for go the 25 point Theme Bonus the other guys had. Here's who played what:
Mark McDaniel had Dwarves. Great force build and some really neat figures from a range I wish he could recall.
David DuJordan had an Adventuring Party. This is a type of warband/force that I've held as my special project in the design of the rules. I'd love for a player to build basically his own D&D or Pathfinder adventuring party and be able to play with them in BoB. Dave had a great force with one of my favorite Traits: Henchman. And yes, you get a theme bonus if you've named them by Henchman Number too. So he had Henchmen 1-3 on hand.
Aaron Morneau used his Skaven figures to play a Ratskins list. He used one of my other unique Traits: Tunneler. That's right, you can have models burrow up from underground to grab objectives or get behind enemy lines. Those rules worked out really well until I whacked his Rat Ogre.
Alan Washburn went with a force made up from Bones monster figures including a female Giantess. He had some great figures but also had some bottlenecking on the town tabletop because his Monstrosity's (Giant) base took up some prime real estate.
Drew Davies was our 'control' group using his Wargame Factory Vikings as raiders from Skaarsheim in the Epic Heroes setting Lost Empires of Arkantys. One of the best parts of having rules that allow for ANY models to be used is that your creativity is only limited by your figure inventory.
I had a special type of force I built using the Ral Partha Wizard with Runesword figures that I'm so damn obsessed with. I made up a Secret Order for the Lost Empires background and wanted to give them a test drive using my Ral Partha and Grenadier minis. Unfortunately, I'm doing so much writing that I'm not painting, but that should hopefully change soon.
The background I came up with was for a Secret Society that stood watch over the Prime Material Plane and protected its inhabitants from incursions from the Etheric Realm. So they guard against Ghosts, Spirits, Specter's, Wraiths, etc. Most of their Order are Knights Etheric and Wraithstalker archers. The elite of their order are the Eidolon's, warriors who are masters of the blade and have the ability to shift into the Etherium and battle creatures that have access to that realm. They usually travel in 3's or Triptychs. Fun, fun, fun.
Here's the pics:
July 10, 2012, 01:03:20 AM