{"id":2465,"date":"2014-01-20T00:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2014-01-20T00:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T00:23:24","slug":"fantasy-battle-at-jj-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Battle at JJ Con"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A wide shot of the battle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our second game for the weekend was a fantasy battle using the under-development Bear Yourselves Valiantly rules. \u00a0I ran this game, because Eric expressed interest in trying out the rules. \u00a0This was a refight of a Napoleonic battle (sort of), but we used 3000 points per side instead of the actual Napoleonic order of battle.<\/p>\n

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Eric, Nick, and Jimmy had the goblins and their human allies. \u00a0JJ, Dave, and I were the elves. \u00a0The goblins were supposed to be defending, but Jimmy decided to advance, which force Nick to move forward as well. \u00a0My human force, facing Nick’s goblins never really got much going. \u00a0We mixed it up quite a bit, but I didn’t really make much progress toward my objective.<\/p>\n

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Getting ready to start<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a fair amount of kvetching and grousing about the ratings and statistics on the troops, but the forces, by points, were pretty equal. \u00a0Eric’s goblins mixed it up with JJ’s elves, and the fighting was hot and heavy. \u00a0Eric was doing a pretty good job of holding off JJ, but then some of Dave’s elves joined the fight, and Eric was hard pressed.<\/p>\n

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The fight over one of the Elf towns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The problem with fantasy is that everyone has their own idea of the capabilities of wood elves versus goblins versus undead versus humans versus… \u00a0Bear Yourselves Valiantly<\/em> allows players to use a point system to build out their forces, providing a great deal of flexibility for folks to make the armies match their preconceived notions. \u00a0Unfortunately in these demonstration games, where we hand folks armies built according to OUR notions, people tend to confuse the rules with the scenario with the army statistics.<\/p>\n

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Jimmy's wizard uses a wall of fire to protect himself from Dave's elves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think the guys had a good time.<\/p>\n