Getting my daughter into Age of Sigmar

For today’s battle I took inspiration from the Shattered Dominion Objectives. We had two objectives equally spread out along the centre line. The game winner would be the person to be in possession of both objectives at the end of turn three.

The Iconoclast Axe could only be claimed by answering three maths questions asked by the statue (i.e. your opponent). The Trove of Arcane Glory could only be claimed by reading a passage of text to it (i.e. time to do some school reading homework).

This was also the first game where my daughter used the Celestar Ballista and I realised that without its Chained Lightning ability it performs very poorly. I therefore decided on the fly to start introducing some unit abilities, largely as I see fit to make things interesting. I’m not too worried about using every ability all the time. I also introduced spellcasting for the Guardian of Souls.

The actual battle saw the Celestar Ballista, Knight-Incantor and two units of Sequitors facing off against a Guardian of Souls, Chainrasp Horde, Spirit Torment and Lord Executioner.

I deployed the Chainrasp Horde directly opposite the Celestar Ballista to ensure it could get some good rounds of shooting in. The Spirit Torment and Lord Executioner went for the Iconoclast Axe on my left, with the Knight-Incantor moving to challenge it. On my right my Guardian of Souls went for the Trove of Arcane Glory. Contesting him was the two units of Sequitors.

My daughter was able to claim both objectives in turn two after answering three maths questions and reading the first page of her homework reading book. In turn three I was able to take out the Knight-Incantor and seize that objective by answering three maths questions posed by my daughter. On my right the Guardian of Soles eventually died but not before holding out for far longer than I thought should be possible. In the centre the Chainrasp horde took a pounding from the Celestar Ballista and then got into combat with a unit of Sequitors. They won in the end, but not quickly enough to move to another objective.

The game ended in a draw.