A break from the far East, after several weeks of flicking through the rules finally a chance to give Flying lead a run out......
The rules are based on the popular "Song of Blades
and Heroes" rules mechanics, a simple mechanism but surprisingly complex if you are to win a game.
What better place than going back to AVBCW it's been a while...
The Government have been pressuring the workforce for greater output in an effort to bolster the flagging economy as the years of war begin to bite. Pushed to far the miners take up arms, kicking out the pit managers and throwing up defences.
The Police are set in to break the miners and seize control of the mine works.
The approaches to the mine works.
The miners take up their positions, 18 fighters armed with a mixture of rifles, Pistols and one Maxim.
The Police break into two groups swinging both left and right, using the hedge rows to cover their advance.
The Miners seeing the Government forces fail a number of tests advance to bring their rifles and maxim into range.
A number of Police are out of the fight, forcing the others to seek the cover of the tree line.
Using the leaders motivation and gambling on three actions, a detachment of Police skirt the old wool shop and flank the advancing miners.
A close range fire fight and the ambush bonus take down several of the advancing socialists.
On the right flank the Police pour forward.
At close range the Maxim can be really nasty.
The shop steward leads his men forward to defend against the flanking move.
A well aimed shot and the Shop Steward is down.
Seeing their leader out of the fight a number of the militia head for the table edge.
With their threshold at 50% the remaining militia seek to sanctuary off table. The Mine falls to the Government.
A great addition to the Songs of Blades stable, I like the way the
character activation works you have to take a gamble
on the number of activations needed which adds to the battlefield friction.
The firefights work well with a minimal number of dice with models ducking for cover and going to ground.
Definately one to try again in the near future....