After a bit of a hiatus in which lego, boardgames and the sudden jump to fully independent reading took priority, my progeny (two boys, six and four) returned to the gaming fold with a vengeance during this afternoon's rainy weather. This time,
they were the "baddies", and I took the part of the hapless villagers. As you might guess from the title of the post, we used
A Song of Blades and Heroes as our ruleset although as I didn't refer to the rules at all during our game we may have strayed from the game as written in some respects!
Here's the field of battle just as it started to break up and sprawl in all directions - the narrow board is to prevent damage as little people stretch across - a hard lesson learned from a previous encounter
Did they manage to steal my cows? Well, have you
seen small kids roll dice?! The full write-up (perhaps "photo roll" is more accurate) is on the blog,
here, if you're interested.