Ice and fire pt 1

I thought I'd post my first game of lion rampant for my ice and fire themed games.

It will in no way follow the books but take its own path and will have many twists and turns along the way.

It starts with a scenario from the rule book whereby one force has to find and safely retrieve an escaped enemy captive.

Young Rob Stark has not long been crowned King of the North, word reaches his camp that his mother, Lady Catelyn, had been travelling through the Riverlands when here escort was ambushed.

She is said to be hiding in a nearby village. Immediately Rob mobilises some men and they head out.

As they reach the village enemy banners are spotted to the west. It's Ser Gregor Clegane and his men. Backed up by a few Lannister regulars.

He must find his mother quickly.

The Stark host in the east

The Lannister host

Good fortune, Lady Catelyn is found by the outriders. (Jammy turn 2 dice)

The Clegane yeomen respond quickly 

The outriders start to escort Lady C from the battle

The Stark serjeants form up to cover there retreat.

Elsewhere the opposing forces close in.

Yards from safety, she drops an earring.

(Needed a 5 on 2d6)

The yeoman keep up the pursuit 

She drops another earring 

As she looks for it, Lannister men catch Greatjon by surprise 

And swiftly rout his host.

To no avail though as Lady C finds her earrings and is safely escorted from trouble.

Well an interesting game that I thought may end without a blow being struck.

Also seems highly ironic that the stand in unit of numidian horse was the star of the show. The law of sod strikes again.

Thanks for looking 

Pre Xmas present

I have not had much spare time recently so the blog has suffered accordingly. However many new and existing posts will be updated in the next few weeks.

As a continuation of my 28mm medieval posts I picked up these at half price.

A nice little set of buildings for under £40.

I currently have them in the shed getting under coated, full pics of the parts to follow.

Ice and Fire

Well the dust settles on the Arnhem project and the mind starts wandering. 

A few posts ago I introduced Ser Gregor Clegane. I did finally paint his retinue of henchmen, all 6 of them, and played a few games. It was all good and then I bought this

A very nice light hearted set of rules, completely mission based. 

This got me thinking and it led to the construction of another 30 figures to fill out most of the force I would need

That isn't the worst bit, I then thought I better get an opponent for them,

Which looks like this,

And that's only half of them!

All this from the guy who says he hates painting 28's

You've gotta love any hobby that makes you challenge your own opinions lol 

Thanks for following, and always go with the craziest ideas.