Greetings, dear reader(s). I guess this would fall into a "Work in Progress" post. For the last few months, a 5 person consortium in our gaming club has been working towards our Spring Game Day game. For those new to this blog, our club usually holds one Saturday "Game Day" per year. These provide us the opportunity to put on big games (these are club-member & club guest-only events, not to be confused with our Open Game Days, which we also hold once per year).
This year, we are putting on a game set in the 13th Century Mongol Invasion of Hungary, pitting Western forces led by King Bella of Hungary against the Great Khan and the Mongols and their subjects. The game is coming up this weekend, and we're putting the final touches on arrangements. The game will be played using a stripped down version of Lion Rampant II and the combined collections of five club members. Here is a selection of shots featuring some of the terrain and figures from playtests we've been doing in advance of the event (as usual, you may clix pix for BIG PIX)...
We will have 1 center table, with 8 players and 2 Game Masters, and 2 wing tables, with 1 Game Master and 4-6 players each. If needs be, we'll be able expand by a few players beyond these planned numbers. I'll be coordinating the overall event and supporting as needed. The Khan and King Bella players will be on the Center Table, and each of the Wing tables will be led by a Duke (Western) or Noyan (Mongol) player. All told, there will be 5 game masters and something on the order of 20-24 players.
This looks like a big undertaking. Good thing that you have a team gathered to pull it off. Curiously, this latest update is failing to appear on my Blog Roll. Maybe there is a delay? I will keep an eye out to make sure you do not completely fall off of my RADAR.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, we do have a group of the more practiced gamers in the club pulling together on this (each one of us has run a game day by ourselves): let's hope that together we don't louse up what we each did solo! Just checked your blog and saw my update on your blog roll--reassuring, to be sure. It was the visibility it gained by appearing on your blog roll (among a few others) that gave my blog it's start.
DeleteThat all looks fantastic Ed and I do hope in the heat if battle, you find time to take a few pics!
ReplyDeleteJon, I think your blog is fine, I reached here via your "favorite creators" or whatever it is called 😉
If things run close to plan, then I should be able to snap enough eye candy to convey the event.
DeleteGreat looking project Ed, should be a cracking one to play, as Keith says plenty of photos please when it happens!
ReplyDeleteWe've been running a series of Lion Rampant II games on club nights leading up to the event, so there should be good familiarity among the players to help things along (and perhaps even more importantly, the consensus feedback from the test games has been very positive: everyone like the rules system and the Mongols vs Western theme).
DeleteAll I can say is WOW!
ReplyDeleteWe're fairly well practiced at these big games, but you never know: fingers crossed that this one turns out to be a Wow! and not a Kaboom!
DeleteSounds like its gonna be fun!
ReplyDeleteEveryone is looking forward to it.
DeleteSounds like an excellent set up!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Fortunately, it did turn out so!
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