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Neat – are the tile blue-tac’d down or going to be on the table awhile?
I remember when these first came out and the local GW store ran a campaign for Warhammer based on them and had stuck the tiles to a board to hang up
Neat – are the tile blue-tac’d down or going to be on the table awhile? I remember when these first came out and the local GW store ran a campaign for Warhammer based on them and had stuck the tiles to a board to hang up<noscript>
</noscript>“We can always get another set. It’s not like it’s going out of print any time soon, right?”
That is very kind, but how things are going I will need quite a few.
It is these though.
Funny, I replayed ME – after it had lain dormant for almost 30 years – last year as well:
https://snv-ttm.blogspot.com/2020/04/mighty-empires-2.html
So what did I learn?
There’s a lot of dice rolling. A lot!
There’s more dice rolling!
And even more!
To summarize, a lot of dice rolling on all sorts of tables: to determine the content of a tile when scouted; to determine whether you can move over mountains and how much troops that will cost you; to determine the strength of independent settlements; to see what happens when an army banner doesn’t have enough subsistence; and so on…So is Mighty Empires a good game? Hmmm, no, not so good. But then, it was never meant as a standalone game. You should really see it as a campaign world generator, with a lot of unexpected events happening, and for that, it does the job.
Tiny Tin Men Blog: http://snv-ttm.blogspot.com/
Wargaming Mechanics Blog: http://wargaming-mechanics.blogspot.com/After the initial deployment and set up we played 2 turns (2 years game time).
Notable events were some terrible scouting rolls by me, lots of barren and crappy events.
Samantha had a spell that made one of my banners scout in a random direction, and it spent the whole campaign year going no-where.
Some uprisings and settlements going independent.
All in all Samantha had better scouting and better spells until I got a spell that destroyed one of Samantha’s banners totally.
So that was 1500 points obliterated.Current state of play:
Played year 3 today.
I pushed through into the middle and captured the city in the mountains.
My siege on an independent fortress on the southern page finally worked and they capitulated.In the NE I scouted an independent city that repelled my forces and I retreated to my coastal fort, Samantha swept down and captured the city and some surrounding land and cut off my coastal fort.
🙁She also had successful scouting and found new land near the SW.
Event wise I was luckiest, the news of my great victory in the mountains meant that heroes came to join me (+400 points of heroes) and my merchants excited by the new trade routes generated extra coin with city providing extra gold.
Samantha less luck, rebellion (which she quashed later with gold) and magical instrument for one of her units.
Oh yeah, I spent a big chunk of my tax on building a fortress in the mountain pass just below the city I captured.
Next year looks very much like some tabletop battles will be fought.
Ouch – having the coastals cut must really sting – hope you can sit down OK
I’m amazed by how ‘busy’ the map is – I thought it would be mainly armies moving around rather than buildings – my memory of the game is so so hazy though.
Nice to see its progressing through to the battle stage.
Did it get to where the campaign took over more interesting dimensions than the tabletop game? That often happens. That, or the war stagnates, which is realistic enough for medieval warfare.
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