Song of Blades and Heroes

[eviljim]

Does anyone else own Song of Blades and Heroes by Ganesha Games? I have all the supplement books too and I'm thinking about digging into my meager supplies of pre-painted minis (mostly Pathfinder Battles minis) and trying to throw together a few warbands to teach a friend how to play.
The rules are easy to learn and allow you to field a warband made up of almost any miniatures you can find. The base rules a pretty easy but subsequent supplements add on weather conditions, terrain features, new rosters for different army types, dungeon rules for a Descent type of gameplay, campaign rules for expanding and upgrading your warbands, anthropomorphic fantasy rules ( with army rosters based off of the Splintered Light Minis range) and Arthurian rules. The rules are available at drivethrurpg.comrpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/58230/Song-of-Blades-and-Heroes?manufacturers_id=2502 and in print format on lulu www.lulu.com/shop/andrea-sfiligoi/song-of-blades-and-heroes/paperback/product-2866442.html.

[Silent Bob]

Never heard of it. Will need to take a look at it.

[GrumpyMonkey]

SkiMan does, he plays Songs of Teddy Bears and Barbies (inside joke)

But I do know he has the game as we have played before

[eviljim]

I've convinced a friend who is into old school RPGs and rules lite games to play SOBH with me. I kinda panicked because I normally play at a gaming club where there is a ton of premade terrain available and we're playing at his house where we have no access to terrain or so I thought. I kinda had a epiphany when I was brainstorming for this game. I own quite a few pre-painted Paizo Pathfinder Battles minis and a LOT of Dungeons and Dragons 4E Terrain Tiles. Now I just have to figure out distances using square grid tiles. (or ignore them altogether and just use the Litko movement templates) He was really impressed by my woodland heroes minis from Splintered Light minis so I do see quite a few games of Song of the Splintered Lands in our future.

[GrumpyMonkey]

Skiman, just cut some wooden dowels to length, and then painted the range bands...easy and cheap and you wont wait 4 months to get them from Litko

[CmdrKiley]

I thought it was Song of Bumble Bees and Hockey Sticks (again, inside joke ). I played it with Skiman and Grumpy, it's simple and quick to pickup. I bought it thinking it would be a good way to introduce CdtKiley into miniatures wargaming.

I got the rule, pretty much all of them. I even made up some generic stat cards too. I was hoping to populate the cards with photos of relevant models from my collection.

Neat set of simple rules, the random activation system is sort of cool where high level models are most like to activate while low level ones don't activate very frequently.

I even bought the Mutants and Death Ray Guns version which is really like an old school Gamma World setting reduced to a simple miniatures wargame.

[skiman]

I since upgraded and am playing Song of Pandas and Pixies

As an introduction to miniatures games for younger kids, I played this game with my cousins and their kids. The kids were ages 9-13 when we first played a few years ago.

I used SOBH as a step-up from Heroscape, which we were already playing; with the biggest differences being the random activation, free movement (not hex-based), and larger warbands.

We still play it whenever I get together with my cousins.

For minis, I have 6-10 models for just about every faction. Maverick let me pick through his HUGE collection of Mageknight minis. I picked through two giant rubbermaid containers holding thousands of minis.
Thanks to him, I got a ton of cheap, pre-painted minis to cover just about everything. I back-filled with some cheaply acquired D&D minis off of ebay.

I bought the game at Gen Con years ago after demo'ing the game with the author. He used painted dowels as measurement sticks. I use the exact same method and it works well.

[eviljim]

I actually bought 4 sets of the Litko Ganesha Games token sets and the cool color coded measurement sticks. I own 2 for both 28mm and 15mm. I'm thinking about adding in a few bags of their tokens made especially for Of Gods and Mortals. I don't own any minis for that game yet but I was hoping to grab some Wargames Factory historicals as soon as I figured out what pantheons were represented in the game. Its a shame nobody seems to make cheap plastic Egyptians because I LOVE the avatar of Anubis that Northstar showed off for the game. I might have enough Reaper Warlord Nefsokar lying around that I can field my Khamsin as Egyptians and use the avatar of Sokar for my Anubis. Has anyone picked of Of Gods and Mortals?