Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Battles of westeros - round - first phase: "Rally phase"!

The first phase in the first round is called “rally phase”.

This phase is executed simultaneously by both players.

In these phase the players perform 3 actions.

1-Determine advantage:

At the beginning of the game, in the first round, it’s written in the battle plan who has the momentum.
But from the second round on, the amount of COMMAND TOKENS


on each players COMMAND BOARD


will be compared and the one with the most COMMAND TOKENS gets the advantage and acts first in the current round.

If there is a tie’ the player with the momentum token wins the tie.

2-Refresh commanders:

Each player takes all COMMAND TOKENS from his COMMANDERS CARDS


and places onto his COMMAND BOX.

3-Rally units:

Each player makes his units active’ so that they can be ordered during the coming COMMAND PHASE.(This will be explained more detailed!)

Never forget while playing your COMMAND TOKENS, that you could be loosing the initiative for the forthcoming round.

This would be important especially in the last 2 rounds.

Should you play defensive or wait till your opponent makes tactic mistakes?

Difficult question; the answer depends on each scenario, I think!

İnternational Toy fair Nürnberg begins!

I hope to report soon more...

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Hayreddin Barbarossa - Altar Marketing figure

I am proud to present the first new product in 2012 from Altar marketing.

Hayreddin Barbarossa, a famous Ottoman admiral active in the first half of the 16. century!



The figure is 25mm figure and made of resin.



The Grand Admiral of the Ottoman navy, conqueror of Algiers and Tunisia and he won a great victory at Prevesa in 1538 against a large fleet led by Admiral Andrea Dorea.

It can be ordered from www.altarmodelling.com

Battles of Westeros expansion "Brotherhood without banners" - figures in comparison!

Hi Sam,

here are the comparison:

At first with Battlelore figures:



then with 1/72 scale figures:



More detailed info for you:



and the cavalry:



Sorry for the delay!

The new season is COMİNG..

Don't miss it:

Game of Thrones: Season 2 Teaser

Just waiting for the 01 April 2012...



The announcement on the website:

"Cold winds are rising as the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones" returns for its second season, April 2012.

As the Lannisters, the Starks, and the Baratheons prepare for war, we ask you:

Where does your allegiance lie?"

and reading meanwhile the book...

Monday, January 30, 2012

"Battles of Westeros" order tokens - receiving through "order rating" and discarding!

The "order tokens" are one of the important aspects of the game.

We use them to give a single order to an uncontrolled active unit.

Beside each battle plan in "Westeros Battle Plans" book, there is an order rating icon (the "two dices" - picture).

The active player rolls a number of dices equal to that number and takes order tokens from the "order supply" matching the dice results.

That makes with the order tokens from the previous round his "order pool".

For further information:

15.02.2011 order-tokens-another-component-in BoW!

During the last phase (Regroup phase) of each round there are 6 sub-sections.

One of them, the fourth section, is called "Discard excess resources".

The active player may choose one of his order tokens and discard the rest into the "order pool".

This means, that each player may have maximum one order token in his play area to carry over to the next round.