r/PillageWargame

After several test games, I have concluded that my wargame, 'The Battle for the Watchtower', works well and is highly playable, though there was still room for improvement. I decided that the tile featuring the tower no longer has to be placed in the center; it can now end up in a corner or an outer column, depending on the draw. This gives the game a distinct direction. The biggest change, however, is the introduction of the fellow you see here in the added picture: a so-called 'thegn' (an Anglo-saxon noble warrior) carrying a draco standard. This figure plays a crucial role regarding the attackers' morale; if he is defeated, the balance of power can shift dramatically in an instant.
Feel free to check out the PDF containing the updated rules at this link; it replaces the PDF from my previous post. I have no commercial intentions, so anyone interested in giving it a try is welcome to do so.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vXg3g5Io4TpxNcaQ3KBLSSI2cYA4t-db/view?usp=drive_link

This weekend, I playtested my self-designed wargame, 'The Battle for the Watchtower,' several times. Placing the tower in the center turned out not to be ideal, so I adjusted that rule. All tiles are now placed by drawing them at random. If the tower ends up at the edge of the playing area—as seen in the first photo—the altered orientation suddenly creates much more interesting gameplay. The other photos are purely for atmosphere ;)

My very first miniatures painted—please don’t be too hard on me!

There we go—the terrain for my skirmish wargame, 'The Battle for the Watchtower', is now fully complete. As a final touch last night, I added a dilapidated palisade around the tower to ensure it wouldn't be too easy to reach. That is the game's scenario, after all: getting the warlord to safety inside the centrally located watchtower (which also doubles as a dice tower).
The game is lightning-fast, stripping away all time-consuming elements and bookkeeping. There are no cards, tokens, or counters cluttering the tabletop—just the miniatures, the dice, and a measuring stick.
Here are a few atmospheric photos. The final image shows one of the endless combinations possible with the nine modular tiles (25 x 32 cm).

Cheeky bag of mushrooms in case things get dull.

WIP - This was actually my first one! It is also unfinished, both need finishing paint and to be put on bases... plus i gotta figure out the removable roof for both (think i got it figured out with the materials at hand), some finishing scatter like sacks, buckets and maybe a barrel, and stuff tucked in the rafters like javelins, bows, drying meat or fish or for the eel fisherman eels I also read that sometimes the Irish would keep foul inside the roundhouses and that they would sleep in the rafters often over the sleeping bench so I may work that and the mess that would've caused itno one of my roundhouses... have a feeling these two are just the first of a half dozen or so.... there's also some of the WIP pine needle wattle fence with a working gate... Hope yall dig it!! I started all these projects with an Icelandic stone and turf longhouse but once I got to the rafters for a curved removable roof I got stuck, ive built and demolished it more times than Id like to recount, when Im at a more comfortable place with it Ill post it too