We met up with the guys for 2 parallel games and of course we had to make it a Tiny Thursday Tournament. Just 1 round and 1 game. I played the Lannisters but at least not against my regular opponent. Instead of the Free Folk, having just painted up the Mother of Dragons box, I played... dragons. Game Mode: A Dance with Dragons. It's all coming up Millhouse.
I deployed along the table, with the Lannisters in their well known refuse flank formation. The dragons are extremely mobile, and I repositioned everybody turn 1 around the Pikemen bunker holding a side objective.
Turn 2 saw some action, with the Warrior Sons destroying the stakes (I do enjoy placing them on the center objective lately) and Rhaegal immediately taking the bait. Quite effective. But then the Knights charged in. With Price of failure, vulnerable token and flank charge, and the resilience card counterplot'd, Rhaegal was one-shot off the table.
I had the other 2 dragons charge in, and with a lucky hit from Varys, the Knights also died. Good trade! Turn 3 saw more manuvering and two dragons beating on the Warrior Sons, with the Lannisters healing them and angling the Honor Guard towards the action.
During turn 4, the Lannisters had first activation, and the Honor Guard charged into Drogon. With lots of healing and tokens all around, and 2 more resilience cards played, the dragon survived. Then both dragons clobbered the Warrior Sons down.
By turn 5 I had the clear advantage in points, and holding both objectives. The crossbowmen resigned to not participate in the action, and sat on the other objective. I used all my useless mobility cards to get the Pikemen out of the bog (which I also placed there) and into the action. Not yet.
The Honor Guard, down ranks but boosted by Gregor's extra inflicted wounds, killed Drogon. Then it was up to me to kill them.
Successfully, with Viserion in the back, failing morale tests and taking dragonfire took them down. Then I just moved backwards out of crossbow range, so as not to fail any more tests and drop the objectives.
So I scored a win, yay.
A word on the Lannisters: I thought I knew this faction already, inside out. Turns out, there are a lot of tricks available when you don't just play High Sparrow and stuff. Loved the knight charge, even though it hurt my soul.
And now for the Targaryens. I've seen them in action already against me, so I had a general idea on how to play them. Well, the dragons are great. Extremely mobile, almost immune to morale. I had 1 7+ and a couple of 5+ checks, which I passed luckily, all of them. But let's be real, the odds were on my side. They lack only on the defensive side, unlike the Free Folk giants; but I stacked up on healing NCUs to counter that. They need some forethought, as you can't just brute force your way into combat like the Honor Guard do, and win.
And there's also the non-negligible fact that 2 boxes give you an army's worth of combat units.
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