Questions/Queries/Help?

[sirrob01]

first Up hello and just want to say that I'm enjoying SOBH (primarily Fur & buttons).

I've mostly played fur and buttons scenario's which are a little different to playing with warbands against the core SOBH rules. I introduced a few friends to the game and we had in effect an all in brawl using 6 warbands. I'm the first to admit, as this was a first game for a fair chunk of us the warbands were a little random and the game is designed for 1v1. However we seemed to encounter a few issue's and I just wanted to get some thoughts on what we might have been doing wrong or could do differently.

~ We seemed to have problems killing each other, lots of falling and recoiling but it was very difficult to double each others combat totals (is that right?) to outright kill and most often a fallen model would stand back up in the next turn that player had.
I'm pretty sure I've interpreted the rule correctly. For HTH you both roll a d6 and add that total to your mini's combat value and then compare the totals if one is x2 the other it's a kill if it's 3x it's a gruesome kill, did I get that right?

~ One of the guys took an Adult dragon, For those of us using more normal stuff such goblins/kobolds/humans we pretty much couldn't touch the dragon. It moved to fast had flying so we couldn't trap it and had a quality of 2+ so I don't think it ever missed an activation as he effectively needed to roll ones to fail. (it also had tough) How do you handle this situation in the game massed archers? help?

we all had a heap of fun playing and please don't take the above criticism, just wondered if there were any tips for the above

[charger3604bbl]

For both of your issues I would suggest ganging up on models. The more models you have in base contact with your target the more penalties they will have to their combat roll, making a kill possible.

The dragon, though hard to deal with, is killable. I have seen a band of dwarves accomplish this feat.

Chris

[sirrob01]

The first issue of lack of death was probably exaggerated by the number of models and players involved but in close to 7hours with an avg of 8 models each we managed to kill about 8 models across the 5 warbands (barbarians left after turn 2). Oddly enough the game had degenerated into two skirmishes of 1v1 & 1v1v1. Are there any accepted house rules for large groups? or for adding slightly faster/easier deaths?


We did try a bit of ganging up but us no-one else had a pile of archers and we couldn't catch the dragon it just sort of moved into long range breathed fire and moved out.

Is move/attack/move a legitimate use of 3 actions?

Simple solution I see is a house rule of no single miniature may cost more than half your total warbands points, which we'll probably use next time.

thanks for the help

[charger3604bbl]

In a standard game you cannot have more than 1/3 of the points of your warband as Personalities. Personality status is granted to models by the Special Rules they have. Tough is most certainly a Personality Special Rule.

Chris

[sirrob01]

ahh thats what I missed, been playing to many scenario's . I need to have another skim through the rules from the sound of it .