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Made in ca
Fresh-Faced New User




Canada

Got back to the tabletop after most of a lifetime away, and despite attempts to start a home D&D or Pathfinder game started, I'm left with occasional Pathfinder Society as a player, and lots of papercraft models & minis (plus a few other odd & ends in repainted plastic). The gaming papercraft took over as a hobby of its own soon after I discovered it...
I've heard good things about Song of Blades & Heroes, thinking of a quick way to get some gaming in with my eight-year old son, and put the stuff I have to use. I picked up Song of Fur and Buttons, and will probably go on to SBH, etc. fairly soon.
I've tried out their forum on Yahoo, but I can't imagine a worse platform for _any_ topic than that monstrosity (only 1/4 of the page dedicated to the actual messages? half to ads?).
I'd appreciate it if you'd point me in the direction of any useful sites, forums, blogs, etc. where people share their experiences, tips, tricks, and "bat reps" (new term for me, as a newbie war gamer). I've seen a couple of posts on here, but Dakka's system is new enough to me that I've not found a fraction of what I think might be out there.
Thanks!
   
Made in us
Stoic Grail Knight





Central Cimmeria

I have tried to find some other resources for SOBH, but there doesn't seem to be much out there.

http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/

Has several campaigns with full reports up on their site.
   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut





Beaumont, CA USA

What I posted about Shadowsea, which uses SoBH system
Spoiler:
The miniatures are fantastic, obviously, but my issue has always been that they licensed Song of Blades and Heroes rules for their game mechanics which are WAY too simplistic for my tastes. Every figure only has 2 stats (Quality and Combat) plus a few abilities/special rules, and a points cost following a simple formula based on stats+ability. Every any non-attack roll is uses your Quality (a simple D6 roll to equal or beat that stat, so low is good), and any attack uses your Combat (D6 added to your stat, so high is good). IIRC combat rolls are opposed checks, and beat = push back and possibly knock down, double/triple the opponents roll to injure/kill. All movement is using "movement sticks" that are short (3"), medium (5"), or long (7") and is determined by skills (5" is standard, short gives a points break, long costs more points)

SoB&H does have quite a bit of special rules to represent different abilities and such, but in the end there's just too little difference between an elf and an ogre and an alien and while you can do all kinds of different scenarios, it isn't that fun rolling the same exact Quality check to see if you pass a moral check and passing a "bluff the guard" check and "hack into the computer" check. Or when the same model rolls the same combat check when swinging with a dagger or a sword or an spear or shooting a bow or ballista or rocket launcher. You can play around with those a bit with different skills, but it's generally of the "grants a +1 in X case" variety

It works if you want a very light wargame with a lot of simple customisability to use any figure with and just chuck some dice around in. Personally, I'd recommend getting the fantastic Deep Wars minis and using a different, more robust game system like Savage Worlds or Pulp Alley


There are a lot of people that do like SoBH. For me it's too simplisti,c but some people adore it for that same reason. There's a lot of people on the Lead Adventure: Fantasy forums that play it, I'd have a look at what people have posted there.

~Kalamadea (aka ember)
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Made in us
Brigadier General






Chicago

Chicago Skirmish Wargames is my club. We've got alot of SBH stuff on there as SBH was the first game we played over 4 years ago and it's still our favorite. We're in the middle of our summer campaign, but you can find links to the last two year's campaigns here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/p/iron-isle-song-of-blades-heroes.html
and here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/p/dark-days-have-come-to-lands-of-qaarra.html

If you've got any particular questions about the system I'd be happy to answer what I can. I do recommend using the Yahoo group though. It's not a great system, but it works well enough and the creator of the game is very active there. There was a Ganesha forum, but it didn't get much use and it's pretty much dead. You can look around it for information though.
http://ganeshagames.proboards.com

For stating up your own figs, you can use the warband builders located at the main Ganesha site (scroll down the left side).
http://www.ganeshagames.net/index.php
Much faster than using the in-book formulas.

Chicago Skirmish Wargames club. Join us for some friendly, casual gaming in the Windy City.
http://chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/


My Project Log, mostly revolving around custom "Toybashed" terrain.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/651712.page

Visit the Chicago Valley Railroad!
https://chicagovalleyrailroad.blogspot.com 
   
Made in us
Cultist of Nurgle with Open Sores





If you're on Facebook, join their official group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/63935273102/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Andrea, the creator of the game, is always on there answering questions and posting cool new tidbits.

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