The other day the latest copy of Wargames Illustrated popped through the letterbox along with a set of Billhooks Fantasia, the add-on rules to convert Never Mind the Billhooks to a fantasy setting.
Of course the snag is that I don't actually have any fantasy armies apart from a few odds and sods from the GW LotR range (Haradrim and Uruk Hai if I remember correctly... they've been in the loft for many years) and some Skaven figures that my son had. So now there's a whole potential rabbit hole to disappear down!
The issue of WI came with a freebie sprue from their new Epic scale Ancients figures. I think there are 4 or 5 different sprue available... mine came with some Cathaginians.
Interestingly l just bought Bilhooks the other day and the Fantasia supplement came free with them. Not sure if I will use either set , just thinking currently. I wonder how they would work in solo games?
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Billhooks became our ruleset of choice for a long series of WotR games played over a couple of years. I think they'd mostly work OK for solo play although the victory token mechanism relies on hidden counters. There are a few blog posts around featuring solo play, mainly from when the rules 1st came out, but they seemed to work well
DeleteInteresting. I've been collection 28mm fantasy miniatures for the last couple of years, intending to use Donnybrook as the rules basis. Thanks for giving me something else to consider!
ReplyDeleteI passed my free WI sprue onto someone at the club who is tempted by the whole boxed set. The first one is always free...
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