I have tried in the last couple of months to get a project off the ground, without success. A couple of weeks ago I brought out "The Battle of Five Armies" from Games Workshop from 2005. The game uses Warmaster rules with 10mm figures. I always liked the look of the Warmaster units, but couldn't get into the rules.
Fast forward 18 years. On my job I do a lot of driving. I will play YouTube videos (no I don't watch them) while driving. For two weeks I listened to one poster explain the rules, different armies, and battle reports. One thing about the battle reports was the fact that 4 turns could take up to over 2 hours of play. As time is limited, that would not work for me. I then went on my Kindle and brought up my copy of "The Portable Wargame Compendium". In it it has rules rules for " Swords, Sorcery and Squares: A fantasy variant of the Portable Wargame " by Justin Barrett. I thought these rules could work with the BoFA game pieces. For a trial game I ended up using Bob Cordreys' Portable Wargame Ancients rules.
My wife went out with one of her nieces for a couple of hours. I decided to use one base of figures for each unit, as the board wasn't large enough for multiple bases. The game at first was going well, but then I started fumbling with the dice that marked the unit's SP. Then the wife came in and started to talk about her night, distracting me from the game. The game fizzled out, but has me thinking of using individual figures to represent SPs.
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| The armies deployed. The goblins on the left, the humans on the right. |
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| The goblins slowly forced the humans back. |
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| The end. The goblins defeated the humans, destroying most of the human units. In the end I screwed up with the break points and the game should have ended sooner. |
