Just finished the mass combat battle in Blood for Blood, and it went great! I changed up the beginning so that the barbarians and Drelev's forces were attacking one of the PC's main cities, located very close to where Tatzleford would have been. Instead of Kisandra, I had a survivor from an outlying non-affiliate town ride into the PCs' city, where one of the council makes his home, and interrupt their dinner to tell them an army of crazed barbarians had leveled his town and were on their way.
I used much larger armies than those in BforB, and we used the full mass combat system from WotRK. The two sides basically destroyed each other in the second round of the melee phase, thanks to the city's reasonably high DV and some excellent rolls for the militia by one of the players (the invaders' OM was higher thanks to more and better troops).
That left the PCs to deal with the platoon of trolls! That was a great battle; we used the city district map as a guide to draw out the buildings on the edge of town. The PCs took up positions on various rooftops and assailed the trolls with spells and flyby attacks. Finally, the trolls retreated after a 50% loss. They did some damage to one of the town's buildings, which will need to be repaired.
All in all, the evening was an almost perfect mesh of the group's kingdom building efforts, an introduction to mass combat, and some good old regular combat. Now, the PCs head off to Fort Drelev to rescue some of the outlying town's survivors, and to have a few words with Lord Drelev.
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Just finished the mass combat battle in Blood for Blood, and it went great! I changed up the beginning so that the barbarians and Drelev's forces were attacking one of the PC's main cities, located very close to where Tatzleford would have been. Instead of Kisandra, I had a survivor from an outlying non-affiliate town ride into the PCs' city, where one of the council makes his home, and interrupt their dinner to tell them an army of crazed barbarians had leveled his town and were on their way.
I used much larger armies than those in BforB, and we used the full mass combat system from WotRK. The two sides basically destroyed each other in the second round of the melee phase, thanks to the city's reasonably high DV and some excellent rolls for the militia by one of the players (the invaders' OM was higher thanks to more and better troops).
That left the PCs to deal with the platoon of trolls! That was a great battle; we used the city district map as a guide to draw out the buildings on the edge of town. The PCs took up positions on various rooftops and assailed the trolls with spells and flyby attacks. Finally, the trolls retreated after a 50% loss. They did some damage to one of the town's buildings, which will need to be repaired.
All in all, the evening was an almost perfect mesh of the group's kingdom building efforts, an introduction to mass combat, and some good old regular combat. Now, the PCs head off to Fort Drelev to rescue some of the outlying town's survivors, and to have a few words with Lord Drelev.
Great show!