The Zoidyssey - Adventures with Warriors of Athena

My North Star order arrived last week and I’ve been busy reading through the books.  I’m tackling this solo to start off with so I’m happy to read ahead through the Quests book to start thinking about putting my miniatures requirements together.  Before I can get too far with that I need my party of adventurers, called Warriors in the game.

The Heroes book takes us through putting our main hero and their accompanying companions together.

This morning on the WoA facepage there was a link to an app someone has written to do the generation process for you.  I had a go and it seems to be working and certainly is well detailed.

Hero

You roll up for your hero using the tables provided to find out some basic information like their parent and what skills and weaknesses this confers.  There are baseline stats for the core characteristics that can then be enhanced using the allocation given and then a set of skills are selected.

Finally starting equipment is selected and paid for from a budget of 100 wealth and you won’t be able to buy all the best gear straight away.  Given the miniature I have in mind I’ve picked a hand weapon, 2x javelins, light armour and a shield.

All of this is recorded onto your Hero sheet and at the moment mine is done in rough.  Once I’ve got it written out neatly then I’ll post a photo.

Companions

Next we move on to Companions.  As a solo player my hero gets 160 base recruitment points to spend and can have up to 7 companions.  There can be a mixture of human and animal Companions.  There are some interesting choices available and I decided to stick to humans to start off with.

I’m partly working around the available miniatures I have or have just bought.  Some are larger than the majority of my standard 28mm minis, being more of the epic 28, 30-32mm foot to eye size.  I’ll try to use these as the characters as they stand out more easily.  The companions come with specified equipment so I’ll have to try to match as close as possible to the miniatures I’ve got.  I selected the following:

An Archer 20RP, a Guardsman with 2 handed axe 20RP, a Songmaster with staff 13RP, a Hoplite 35RP, a Hunter 30RP, a Savage with 2 handed weapon 30RP and a Thief 10RP =158RP Total and all 7 available spaces used. Again there is a template sheet for recording these and when I’ve got a neat one I’ll take a photo.

Some miniatures are still on order but I’ll paint the ones I’ve got next.