A Song Of Ice & Fire Skirmishes Await In CMON’s Tactics
February 14, 2024 by brennon
CMON are currently on Gamefound right now with their new take on the universe of A Song Of Ice & Fire. With their new Fantasy skirmish game, A Song Of Ice & Fire: Tactics hones in on the smaller clashes between iconic characters and their retinues on the tabletop rather than the larger battles.
A Song Of Ice & Fire: Tactics - Campaign // CMON
At the heart of Tactics is a two-player skirmish miniatures game where you'll dive into specific, thematic scenarios. These fights take place throughout the history of Westeros from the Battle Of The Trident through to the Battle Beneath The Wall and the clashes in The Riverlands. There is even an immense set which offers up a chance to battle around the rampaging form of Drogon as he lays waste to a fortification.
A Song Of Ice & Fire: Tactics - Details // CMON
Games of Tactics play right out of the box with no need for additional miniatures or components. You get all of the gubbins that you need to play inside each set and you also get the preassembled plastic miniatures that you don't have to paint if you'd prefer to just stick to the fighting! Talking of the miniatures, the range of figures from Tactics can also be dropped into your regular games of A Song Of Ice & Fire in its mass battle form.
Battle Of The Trident - Targaryens // CMON
The core set for this particular campaign is based around the Battle Of The Trident but a lot more miniatures are also available from CMON for you to check out alongside different sets, unlocks and add-ons that can be used to bulk out your collection right away. Battle Of The Trident features the Targaryans and the Baratheons (alongside their various allies).
Battle Of The Trident - Baratheons // CMON
This certainly provides fans of A Song Of Ice & Fire to get their hands on some favourite characters from the legendarium and I reckon that a lot of folks are going to be eager to get stuck in and start painting. At least with Tactics, you're not faced with armies and instead smaller groups of miniatures so it won't be as big of a chunk of your hobby time! Spend more time playing.
Gameplay also sounds fun for Tactics with coins being used to activate certain abilities. Gold and Silver can be used to activate powerful abilities but Cooper is the only resource that comes back so you'll need to make damn sure you use the right abilities at the right time.
That, combined with the warband building and the multiple paths towards victory leads me to believe that A Song Of Ice & Fire: Tactics might be worth diving into. You can check out more about the rules HERE.
Could you be tempted by A Song Of Ice & Fire: Tactics?
"I reckon that a lot of folks are going to be eager to get stuck in and start painting the various miniatures..."
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Nice to hear the miniatures are the same scale and can be used in their mass battle game. A good move imho.
I wasn’t gonna, I really really wasn’t gonna….and then I did.
I did, then I undid. Generic movement range and no adjustment for diagonal moves are just 2 really big fails for me. Personally, I think it is a lazy design choice that destroys tactical play. It didn’t help much that every play through shown was so mundane. One day it will dawn on these game manufacturers to hire some interesting people to show off their games. Sad for me. I thought this was a sure thing (it also didn’t help that the freebies were the nights watch and free folk – no interest).
After 6+ years of avoiding crowd funded game purchases (and very few before that), I caved thanks to this game. I love tactical arena combat games, having been fixated with Warhammer Underworlds since late 2017. This one looks to be fun, if not as deep. And the core pledges cover things not central to what most ASoIF games cover, so the novelty is appreciated.
The game looks dull as paste, but those Dark Sword minis appear to be quality. One could use them in dozens of different dark age/low fantasy skirmish games.
They are nice figs with the perfect (subjective, I know) level of detail for army painting (based on the figures in the tray version of ASOIAF)