A quick BOYL post, if nothing else so that I can more easily remember which ones I've attended (it looks like my last was in 2023 2022, according to a bit of a camera photo search).
My gaming for the weekend was the Siege of Praag (Mordheim) where I played in the morning and evening scenarios. As with so many of the demonstration and participation games at BOYL it looked fantastic. The guys running it had learned from games they'd seen running previous years and worked out how to keep things flowing and actually get to a conclusion in the allotted time.
And my enjoyment was helped by my minotaur having a blast (and somewhat riding his luck) in the first scenario.
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| My minotaur happily facing the majority of a warband as it tries to cross one of the bridges. Meanwhile my actual "heroes" are having less luck nearby. |
As is so often the case when playing a game you've not played in a while, game one was vaguely getting my head around the rules. For game two I thought I knew more what I was doing, but the dice were less in my favour and my tactical brain deserted me. My Norse got bogged down and eventually all but wiped out.
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| My Norse cross one of the bridges into Praag. What should have been an objective-winning position... |
Another highlight was seeing the reproduction of the table featured in the WFB 3rd Edition rulebook, complete with the old plastic Fighting Fantasy ogres. The amount of work that must have gone into it is incredible, not just the modelling but sourcing the figures, and is indicative of the efforts that people make to have BOYL be such a success.
I've a rather tatty cardboard original of the Maisontaal monastery and have long been intending to make a new and somewhat more robust version, so I took plenty of reference pictures!
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| View of the "back" corner of the monastery, which gave Geoff some creative license for adding an extra breech |
As always the Foundry display cabinets give new things to be discovered. The original Bagrian stood out to me this time for some reason!
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| The original Bagrian from The Vengeance of the Lichemaster |
Looking forward to next year already!
