A Necromancer and a Golem

I must be tapping into something here, it is odd for a wargamer as stricken with butterfly-ism as badly as I am to find as much continued focus on a single project as this. Although truth be told, my childhood collection of Britain’s ‘Knights of the Sword’ bought from Kettering’s town market may have something to do with my love for Knights and Dragons.

After a good few games of my Featherstone inspired/ stolen medieval rules I felt some forces were lacking that ‘fun’ factor that fantasy provides, and as fun at times as smashing two armies into each other can be, I thought it would be time for some clearer objectives.

To solve both those issues I thought giving the bad guys a Necromancer would do wonders.

I took the ‘guy holding flag’ from the bag of knights, extended his skirt and gave him a pointy hood with masking tape, replaced his flag with a skull bead, and stuck a spider to his back. He is accompanied by ‘demondogs’ which are just your cheap Dinos with heads also replaced by skull beads.

I figure if I can write simple rules for him to heal and resurrect dead bad guys he becomes an important target for the goodies, and an important asset for the baddies. It should make battles more interesting.

While not as interesting mechanically, I did think of a quick and easy melee powerhouse for either the goodies or baddies in the shape of a golem.

Hot gluing polystyrene together, adding claws with cocktail sticks and then gluing on a skull face was all it took. Covered in my texture goop and painted he is rather effective.

To simplify combat I want to go down a polygonal route, so roll the attacker’s attack die (D4, 6, 8, 10 or 12) and the defender rolls their defence die, the lower roller loses a number of lives equal to the difference. Most figures will have 3 lives big things will go up to 12. Bonuses to attack or defence rolls will be awarded for supporting allies etc. I think that should speed things up.

I’ll hopefully get a battle in this weekend.