Enemies at the Borders

“I can’t believe it, no sooner had we received word that the force of Orcs from the North had been destroyed, than we received word that a village on our Western border had been sacked by Gnolls, and the sails of a Reptile fleet had been spotted off the East coast. I guess we had better hope that the Undead in the South don’t rise up too!” This is a skirmish level wargaming system for playing a solo campaign of twelve battles where you have to select which forces will fight each battle, deal with the aftermath of each result, and hope your kingdom can hold out. While there are many wargames that can be played solo, these have been specifically designed to be played that way. You take full control over your own forces, but for the Adversaries the force composition, positioning, and reactions are all determined by rolls of the dice. The combat rules are designed to be miniature, scale and basing agnostic, so you can use what you already have. While the whole campaign assumes a much larger force, any actual battle is likely to involve around 30-50 figures per side. You can play with more or less of course, as forces are built around all units having a standard size (that you select based on the figures you have) and force matching being done by number of units not numbers of figures. The campaign will involve five different forces in all, if you can field that many. A 3 foot by 3 foot table is good and the scenarios can be played with the kind of terrain any fantasy gamer is likely to have on hand, and if not you can easily represent them with shaped objects or even two dimensional drawings to indicate where a hill, building, wood, etc. is. You will also need ten Markers that are about playing card size for placing Adversary units and moving ones that have not been revealed yet. They should be blank (or all the same) on one side and numbered 1 to 10 on the other, so actually using playing cards from one suit without “face cards” would work. You could also do with some tokens to help you remember what is going on, like small counters numbered 1 to 10 to remind you of the unit numbers after the markers have been flipped, something to show when a unit has acted, and a few that show if a unit is disrupted. —description from the designer