Godtear Ascended Pledge Painting by Lawnor

I got Godtear painted and table ready about 5 minutes before Covid and lockdown kicked in and I wasn’t allowed in the same room as another human for around 18 months.  This meant the game never got played.  I assumed it never would as it’s moment had passed and the world had moved on.

However, about a year ago a friend of mine who also backed the KS decided he really needed to give the game a fair chance to decide if he was keeping or selling his stuff, so we tried it and we loved it.  It’s a great game.  It’s simple.  There’s not much you can do, so that makes everything you do feel important.  In a full size 3 champions vs 3 champions game you only get to make 12 action per phase (2 per champion, and each champion has a unit of followers who can also take 2 actions), 2 phases per turn (Plot and clash.  The plot phase is about getting in to position, and setting up for the clash, and the clash is mostly about fighting and stomping banners), with a max of 5 turns in a game, usually ending sooner.  Despite this, it’s a challenging, fun game.  You get very few actions, so every action matters and you can get lost in analysis paralysis so easily.  It’s simple enough that my regular opponent is a 6 year old and he always poses a challenge and occasionally beats me (usually with a little help from me or his dad in the final round.)

Everyone should give this a go.  The starter boxes say they’re enough to try the game.  They lie.  They have 2 champions in, but a 1v1 game has nothing to it.  You’re not making any decisions.  You’re just doing what the stat cards say you can.  A 2v2 game is a full experience.  All the rules and stat cards are free online so there’s no reason you can’t mock up a pitch and proxy the whole game, or buy 1 starter set and proxy a couple of warbands.  The KS models often appear cheap on eBay.  I have printed up all the cards at double size for the 6 year old as he is still learning to read.

I picked up 4 new champions during Black Friday and got them painted over Christmas.  I’ve already used Jeen and Keera in a game.  Here’s my results.