Raising a warband
warband is a representation of a leader and their personal retinue either hired for the task or provided by birth right or alliance, this retinue of heroes and important individuals each bring their own force to accompany them made of units, each unit representing a hero and their own personal followers/retinue. These units make the building blocks of the warband. Each unit therefore is lead by a hero, this is important and the figure must be easily recognisable form the others in the unit as all line of sight and measurement is centred on that figure. A unit is made of a single troop choice and all the figures are armed exactly the same unless stated in special units. A warband is raised by selecting units with a value from a chosen culture to an agreed limited set by both players. These are our chosen sizes
- Scouting force (stater size) 3-5 units - 300 silver pieces each (6 Actions per turn)
- Raiding force 6-10 units - 500 silver pieces each (10 Actions per turn)
- War party 9-15 units - 750 silver pieces each (15 Actions per turn)
- Invading army 12-20 units - 1000 silver pieces each (20 Actions per turn)
Unit types
- Lead Retinue - Warband Leader, Standard Bearer and three elite warriors.
- Mystic Unit - Mage/Shaman/Wizard with either two acolytes or four warriors bodyguards
- Scouts/Rangers - Scoutmaster and four scouts or rangers
- Warriors - Hero and five warriors
- Beast Unit - Either a unit of three smaller monsters, like werewolves or a single medium sized monster like an elemental or troll.
When choosing your troops you are subject to the following restrictions
- Each warband must contain one leader retinue and no more and this unit will be formed of your leader their standard bearer and personal guard of three elite warriors.
- No warband can include more than two mystic units or beastmasters.
- You cannot include beasts unless you have either a mystic or beastmaster in your warband and then you may only include two per mystic/beastmaster unit.
- Your warband may include one scoutmaster unit only.
The smallest starter warband would be four units with the average being eight